526 DB2 Performance Expert for Multiplatforms V2.2
Introduction
DB2 PE is a general purpose DB2 performance monitoring and analysis
framework. It is flexible enough to be applied in all types of DB2 environments. In
this redbook, the focus is on how to leverage PE in DB2 BI environments.
PE is based on a three-tier monitoring architecture. Tier 1 is the monitored DB2
system. Tier 2 is the DB2 PE server that remotely monitors tier 1. It also enables
all the advanced features like performance history capturing, performance
warehousing, and exception processing. Tier 3 is the PE client that connects to
the PE server and is used to perform all monitoring tasks.
BI systems usually have typical data models and workloads, as well as typical
performance ...