Getting started

This section provides a brief overview of BMC AMI Capacity Management products. This information can help you interpret some of the statistics and terminology you see while creating and evaluating performance models for your systems.

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The BMC AMI Capacity Management includes the following products and components:

  • BMC AMI Capacity Reporting
  • BMC Performance Predictor for Mainframes
  • BMC AMI Capacity Database Web Services (formerly BMC Capacity Management Database (BMC CDB)) 
  • Universal Information Exchange
  • Visualizer/Capacity Database

BMC AMI Capacity Reporting is an interactive graphing tool for statistical processing of historical data of your mainframe systems. The product processes and displays statistical data collected over an extended period of time. You can use the collected data to create performance analyses and graphs in a variety of formats.

You can use this product in either or both of the following ways:

  • Accessing your populated Capacity Database performance data to create ad hoc workflows and dashboards from scratch
  • Starting with one of the out-of-the-box workflows, shipped with the product, which contains preselected categories and performance metrics

The Capacity Database contains SMF data that is processed and analyzed to provide a shared data repository that any user, application or process can access.

BMC Performance Predictor for Mainframes, which resides on a Windows Console, enables you to study your baseline performance statistics and build models to predict and evaluate the effect of changes on your data center by using a visual Windows interface.

If you have BMC Performance Predictor for Mainframes, you can model activity in your data center on the level of Service Class and Performance Group periods. You can also define and model SUITES, which are groups of jobs, started tasks, or TSO sessions. In addition, if you have BMC Performance Analyzer for Mainframes, UIE can create a Visualizer file that contains performance data about your z/OS systems and the Service Classes, Performance Groups, and SUITES that are executing on those systems.

BMC AMI Capacity Database Web Services (Capacity Database Web Services) contains BMC AMI Capacity Management data that is processed and analyzed to provide a shared data repository that any user, application, or process can access. 

Universal Information Exchange (UIE) is a software component that runs on your mainframe system to read and process SMF/RMF and subsystem data collected from target IBM z/OS images. UIE can produce two types of output:

  • XML data files, which are used as input for the BMC Performance Predictor for Mainframes
  • Visualizer files, which are used as input for the BMC Performance Analyzer for Mainframes and Visualizer/Capacity Database

The Visualizer is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use tool for graphing performance data and making enterprise-wide performance decisions. Visualizer uses powerful graphics libraries to draw graphs, charts, and specialized diagrams.


 

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