Automatic, expert performance
monitoring and tuning
If your company's System i has slow response time, your staff's productivity goes down. Maximum system performance is a major concern of every IT manager. If your System i isn't performing, your users become frustrated and your IT department and its manager look bad.
What causes poor performance?
Poor system performance results from uneven workloads and not configuring
the system to handle shifting workloads. A lack of sufficient
memory in the right place at the right time is also a factor.
Another cause is users who run batch work interactively.
Fixing the problem
You have three options to correct poor performance:
1. Become an expert on performance tuning and manually set pool sizes and activity levels. Unfortunately, slower response times often return since your system's use changes constantly.
2. Install additional memory or upgrade your System i model. The obvious drawback to this option is cost. Memory and model upgrades are very expensive.
3. Use an automatic performance tuning tool. Robot/AUTOTUNE, from Help/Systems, is the most reliable automatic performance tuning software available for the System i. It tunes your system automatically and continuously without the high costs of a human operator or expensive memory upgrades.
Never out of tune
Set Robot/AUTOTUNE performance tuning software to monitor your
system use at a specified interval--5, 10, 15 seconds. It adjusts
memory so it is used efficiently, while using only 15 seconds
of CPU time per hour. Robot/AUTOTUNE works at the operating system
level using artificial intelligence techniques to provide peak
system performance all day, every day. Get in tune--order your FREE
Information Kit.
Real-time performance monitor
How do you know when your systems are performing at their
peak? Robot/AUTOTUNE's real-time performance monitor gives you
the answers--easily, graphically, using the least resources.
Robot/AUTOTUNE continually measures five vital indicators of system performance: memory allocation, CPU utilization, disk space consumption, transactions per minute, and response time. Using a PC display, it graphs these measurements for up to 25 systems in your network. If a performance reading exceeds a standard, Robot/AUTOTUNE puts a performance event on the Robot/NETWORK Status Center. It even notifies you with a pop-up window, or sends a message using Robot/ALERT.
Tuning for any partition
Robot/AUTOTUNE easily handles dynamic shifts in memory as you increase
or decrease memory resources in your logically partitioned (LPAR)
systems. Robot/AUTOTUNE performance tuning adjusts
to the change in resources and continues to expertly tune and
monitor your systems for any partition.
Server performance tuning made easy
The System i is the ideal Domino server. It can run a number of servers
on the same machine, each in its own subsystem--great for reliability
and scalability, but a performance-tuning nightmare.
Robot/AUTOTUNE has the solution! It tunes dozens of subsystems for maximum performance. The result is great Domino server performance day after day with no effort on your part. Get a FREE 30-day trial of Robot/AUTOTUNE.
Pool party!
Robot/AUTOTUNE offers another unique feature--dynamic pools. Because
batch jobs take up large chunks of CPU resources, other jobs take
longer to process. Robot/AUTOTUNE uses a breakthrough technique
of isolating each batch job in its own dynamic pool as it is submitted.
When the job finishes, the pool is removed. Join the party!
Job queue management
On a typical system, jobs in low-priority queues sit and wait while
jobs in higher-priority queues process. Use Robot/AUTOTUNE's job
queue management feature to assign low-priority queues to a rotation
group and allocate dynamic pools to the group. As jobs complete,
Robot/AUTOTUNE rotates through the group until all jobs in all job
queues have run.
Performance problem prevention
Robot/AUTOTUNE's detail and summary reports show you your system's
performance patterns. Use the Good Morning Report to summarize
your performance statistics each day. To help you spot memory
problems, run the Memory Demand Report.
Big jobs are no problem
No job is too big for Robot/AUTOTUNE. This includes your server
jobs--especially those exceedingly large Domino, Web, and connection
jobs--which can spawn thousands of threads. Regardless of job
size, Robot/AUTOTUNE keeps on effectively tuning your systems
and lets you know how big these jobs really are by reporting
the active number of threads. You'll see improved System i performance
no matter how hard you make it work.
Sweet music
Discover how Robot/AUTOTUNE can do all this for you automatically.
Contact Help/Systems at 1-800-328-1000 today to get your System i
in tune. Or, order a FREE information
kit online:
* Automatic, dynamic performance tuning
* Dynamic batch pools
* Interactive job tuning
* Server job tuning
* Job queue management
* Network performance statistics
* Graphic displays
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