Performance Tools

The Performance Tools licensed program includes many features to help you gather, analyze, and maintain system performance information. This includes assistance in managing performance over a distributed network, collecting and reporting on both summary and trace data, and capacity planning.

Performance Tools uses the performance data collected by Collection Services (sample data) and the trace data obtained from the Start Performance Trace (STRPFRTRC) command and the End Performance Trace (ENDPFRTRC) command.

The Performance Tools for iSeries™ licensed program allows you to analyze performance data in a variety of ways. Performance Tools is a collection of tools and commands for viewing, reporting, and graphing performance data. You can use Performance Tools for iSeries to view performance data collected with Collection Services or to view trace data collected with the Start Performance Trace (STRPFRTRC) command. You can then summarize the data into a report to research a performance problem on your system. You can also create graphs of the performance data to see resource utilization over time.

Performance Tools for iSeries contains a base product and two features (Manager and Agent). The base plus one of the features is required. For more information about the Manager and Agent features of Performance Tools, see the Manager and Agent feature comparison topic.

For more detailed information about how to use Performance Tools to collect data about the performance of a system, job, or program, look in the Performance Tools book. It also explains how to analyze and print data to help identify and correct any problems.

• Performance Tools concepts
  Describes a variety of tools to help you collect and analyze performance information. Find detailed information about exactly which tools perform which functions and how they work.

• Installing and configuring Performance Tools
  See this topic for installation and setup instructions.

• Performance Tools reports
  Performance Tools reports provide information on data that has been collected over time. Use these reports to get additional information about the performance and use of system resources.

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Collection Services Manager and Agent feature comparison