Monitoring Indicator Values

Some monitoring fields display a pair of values separated by a comma. These pairs are short term and long term indicators for the time measured since monitoring was enabled for the object, or from when the queue manager was started:

• The short term indicator is the first value in the pair and is calculated in a way such that more recent measurements are given a higher weighting and will have a greater effect on this value. This gives an indication of recent trend in measurements taken.

• The long term indicator in the second value in the pair and is calculated in a way such that more recent measurements are not given such a high weighting. This gives an indication of the longer term activity on performance of a resource.

These indicator values are most useful to detect changes in the operation of your queue manager. This requires knowledge of the times these indicators show when in normal use, in order to detect increases in these times. By collecting and checking these values regularly we can detect fluctuations in the operation of your queue manager. This can indicate a change in performance.