Using applications and subcomponents to monitor capacity and space usage

To monitor the performance, capacity, and space usage of the applications in your business organization, create applications and subcomponents. You can also add applications to departments so that storage capacity and usage can be monitored in an overall business hierarchal manner.

Before you begin

You can create a simple application model, which consists of an application and use a filter to associate the storage resources that the application uses with the application. Alternatively, you can create a complex application model that comprises an application and application subcomponents and then add filters to associate the storage resources that each application subcomponent uses with each of the subcomponents.

Besides creating applications to monitor the performance, capacity, and space usage of the applications in your business organization, you also create applications to add them to departments. When you add applications to departments, you can monitor the capacity and space usage of the departments and you can monitor the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications that each department uses.

To monitor the capacity of an application, you create an application model that is based on the following elements:
  • The application
  • The subcomponents that the application contains
  • The applications, application subcomponents, or both that are added to the department
In the following tutorial, you want to create an application model that monitors the capacity, space usage, and performance of the Book Sales DB application. The application model that you want to create comprises these application subcomponents:
  • Wholesale Transactions
  • Retail Transactions
  • Online Transactions
Figure 1. An application with a three subcomponent hierarchy
The application and subcomponent hierarchy
To understand how capacity is trending for storage in an application and subcomponents, complete these tasks:
  1. Create the Book Sales DB application.
  2. Create the Wholesale Transactions, Retail Transactions and Online Transactions applications to represent the subcomponents.
  3. Add the Wholesale Transactions, Retail Transactions, and Online Transactions as subcomponents to the Book Sales DB application.
  4. Create the Book Sales department and the Wholesale, Retail, and Online subdepartments to be associated with the applications.