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Table 7-5 Sample interval examples
To reduce the growth of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center database while watching for
potential performance issues, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can store only samples in
which an alerting threshold is reached. This skipping function is useful for SLA reporting and
longer term capacity planning.
In support of ongoing performance management, a reasonable sample interval is 15 minutes.
An interval of 15 minutes usually provides enough granularity to facilitate reactive
performance management. In certain cases, the level of granularity required to identify ...