Workload Analysis Tools
In a distributed environment with discrete applications on separate systems, workloads are analyzed by monitoring the total resource usage of each whole system. The busiest systems can be identified and tuned or upgraded. This approach does not work when multiple workloads are combined on a single system. While all performance monitoring tools can tell you how busy the CPU is in total, few of them can aggregate all the processes that make up a workload and tell you the amount of resource per-user that workload is using.
Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0 Software
The Sun Enterprise SyMON 2.0 software is described in detail in Chapter 12. This section briefly introduces the product and concentrates on the specific process of performing ...
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