
168 Siebel 7.8 with IBM DB2 UDB V8.2 Handbook
7.1 Tools for monitoring
Monitoring helps you analyze your system. Use Monitoring if you have a
transaction that is running for a long time, are experiencing scalability problems,
receive user complaints about performance and you need to find the cause and
develop solutions. Monitor the production environment first, and then identify the
problem. Verify the fix in a test environment by running system and unit test,
before you apply the fix in the production environment.
The database manager parameter, MON_HEAP_SZ, determines the amount of
memory allocated in pages for monitoring your database system. ...