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Figure 7-3 A sample enterprise security layout
7.9 Performance management
Performance management is a key discipline in the systems management area.
It includes measuring, analyzing, reporting, and tuning the performance of IT
resources. Performance management falls into two categories:
Real-time monitoring, alerting, problem identification, and problem resolution
Bench marking, modeling, rerunning problem scenarios, and trending
performance metrics feeding capacity planning
IT resources include:
Hardware
Software
Applications
Capacity planning is another discipline v ...