Working with UIE/VM

Universal Information Exchange/VM (UIE/VM) is a tool that processes performance metrics, enabling you to do capacity planning for subsystems running on z/VM. The metrics collected can show whether certain conditions can affect performance. For example:

• Workload performance is adversely affected because one of the devices in use is also used by another workload
• CPU utilization is at or near maximum capacity

UIE/VM processes information from standard VM Monitor records that are generated by the operating system that you run. Alternatively, UIE/VM uses zMAP History or Daily files as an input source rather than VM Monitor. The information from these records is used to create:

• XML files that you can process from the BMC Performance Predictor for Mainframes product on a Windows system. You can evaluate the XML file data on the Windows system to create performance models for your systems.

• Visualizer files that you can populate into the Visualizer database and produce Visualizer graphs. 
  For more information on Visualizer graphs, seeVisualizer.

The following figure displays the BMC AMI Capacity Management flow:

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