Managing the capacity of your network infrastructure
As a Capacity Planner or network Administrator, you can use BMC Helix Capacity Optimization to configure, administer, and manage the capacity of your network infrastructure.
BMC Helix Capacity Optimization enables you to collect and manage data for the network infrastructure elements.
As illustrated in the flow diagram, the BMC Helix Capacity Optimization data source collects data from the network infrastructure resources. The collected data is transferred to the BMC Helix Capacity Optimization data warehouse where it is processed, and then displayed on the user interface. You can use the product functionalities to review, analyze, and manage the capacity of your network infrastructure resources.
The following sections describe how you can achieve these goals:
Managing the capacity of network infrastructure resources
You can analyze and manage the capacity of your network infrastructure resources by using the Network view. For the infrastructure data to be available in the view, the network Administrator must first set up the data source to collect data.
Step 1. Collect data and install the views
As an Administrator, use one of the following ETLs for data collection:
- Moviri-Integrator-for-BMC-Helix-Capacity-Optimization-Entuity
- Moviri-Integrator-for-BMC-Helix-Capacity-Optimization-HP-NNMi
After data collection starts, data is loaded in the data warehouse daily and Indicators are available in the Workspace.
As an Administrator, you must install the Network views and grant the necessary permissions to Capacity Planners and network Administrators to access these views.
Step 2. Analyze the collected data
To get a high-level view of the infrastructure usage and health, use the Network-view.
The following use cases are described here:
Understand the usage and health of your network devices
Review and analyze the Devices-Overview-page-in-the-Network-View and Interfaces-Utilization-page-in-the-Network-View to understand the capacity usage and health of network devices.
Understand the bandwidth utilization and trend of your network interfaces
Review and analyze the network resource metrics on the Interfaces-Forecast-page-in-the-Network-View to understand the usage and utilization trend of the network interfaces in your environment.
You can drill down into a specific interface for detailed analysis.
Analyze the utilization and trend of network ports
Use the Used-Ports-Forecast-page-in-the-Network-view to analyse the utilization and trend of used ports.
Performing advanced analysis
The earlier sections explained how you can use the out-of-the-box capacity views to manage your environment. These capacity views help you analyze your network infrastructure using a predefined set of metrics.
To perform advanced analysis on the imported network data, such as identifying specific performance issues, trends, and bottlenecks, you can use Analysis.
The following use case explains how to create an analysis:
For more information, see Creating-an-analysis.