ca insight database performance monitor

CA INSIGHT™ DATABASE PERFORMANCE MONITOR FOR DISTRIBUTED DATABASES(CA INSIGHT DPM) HELPS YOU SIMPLIFY MANAGEMENT OF YOUR GROWING, COMPLEX DATABASEENVIRONMENT. CA INSIGHT DPM ALSO PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN IMPROVING SERVICEAVAILABLIITY ACROSS YOUR COMPLEX IT INFRASTRUCTURE WITH INTEGRATION TO THEOTHER CA DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND CA'S APPLICATION, NETWORK, AND SYSTEMSPERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS.

Overview

Slow response time cannegatively impact yourcustomer’s satisfaction andcompany profitability. Asapplications depend ondatabases that reside on avariety of operating systemssupported by a largerinfrastructure, determiningthe root case of a performanceissue can be difficult.

With business-critical datacontinuing to grow at analarming rate, CA InsightDPM helps you understandand manage databaseperformance to maximizeservice availability goals.

Benefits

Reduce managementcomplexity and its associatedcosts with unification ofdatabase monitoring on asingle display without relianceupon a specific platform ordatabase vendor.

Reduce the number of servicedisruptions with proactiveidentification of databaseperformance issues. Combinedwith historical trending, youcan eliminate guesswork toidentify, diagnose and solvethe root cause of poorperformance before itnegatively impacts yourbusiness.

The CA Advantage

CA Insight DPM is uniquein its ability to provide an“at-a-glance” performancesummary of all monitoreddatabases on one screen,including an overall databasehealth index.

Resolving performance issuesacross the IT stack is simplifiedwith a “single source of truth”.CA Insight DPM deliverskey metrics directly intoCA's application, network,and systems managementto support your integratedperformance managementinitiatives as well as theCA Enterprise IT Manage -ment vision.

CA Insight™ Database PerformanceMonitor for Distributed Databases

PRODUCT BRIEF: CA INSIGHT DATABASE PERFORMANCE MONITOR

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Reduce Complexities of Performance ManagementCA Insight DPM helps you simplify management of your growing, complex databaseenvironment with it’s unification of database monitoring on a single display without relianceupon a specific platform or database vendor.

Slow or unresponsive applications can impact your customer’s satisfaction and yourprofitability. The amount of data being collected and stored by applications into databasescontinues to grow at a significant rate, while databases themselves have become larger andmore complex. With a greater number of objects and interdependencies introduced in eachdatabase release, managing the complexity of your database infrastructure with existing staffbecomes more challenging. With business-critical data residing in numerous locations ondifferent physical systems and on different databases, CA understands the challenge youface to meet existing service levels and improve management practices.

Improve Service AvailabilityTo reduce poor performance resolution time and cost, CA Insight DPM unifies databaseperformance monitoring with a browser-based multi-database management console, givingyou the power to proactively detect and prevent database performance issues before theynegatively impact business processes. You can automate the monitoring, data collection andperformance analysis of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Windows (LUW), Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase.Monitored information can be displayed as it is happening or historically — days, months,or longer.

You can also centrally monitor and manage the performance of database internals; CPU, memory,I/O, subsystem metrics and capture database SQL all from the same browser-based managementconsole. The performance summary provides you with an overview of all monitored databasesin one display, key performance statistics and a database quality of service so you can prioritizework based upon the databases that are in need of attention first (See Figure A). This singleview gives your different RDBMS a common look and feel, shortens the learning curve, andgives you the confidence to manage a larger number of databases with greater efficiency.

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CENTRALIZE DATABASE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

How CA Insight DPM WorksUpon installation, CA Insight DPM automatically detects and proactively alerts on conditionsthat affect database availability. It speeds your problem resolution time by providing in-depthdetails on the database and its associated subsystem interaction. Flexible architecture supportsscalability of the business with low overhead collection of critical performance metrics. You canquickly diagnose and resolve complicated database performance issues that were difficult toresolve in the past; pinpointing the root cause in real time or by reviewing historical informationso the issues don’t occur again.

You can use the predefined and customizable thresholds and alarms to send notification whenan event occurs, giving you the ability to quickly trace and resolve performance-related issues.For in-house developed applications or site specific monitoring requirements, you have theflexibility to implement multi-threshold, custom monitoring scans and alarms.

FIGURE A

Gain control with single visibility intoall monitored databases across theenterprise.


Supports Your Performance Management Integration Initiatives INTEGRATION WITH OTHER CA DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS The CA Insight DPMbrowser-based management console, called the CA Database Command Center (CA DCC) isthe integration point to the other CA distributed database management solutions to furtherexpand functionality. This includes high-speed database restructuring with CA TSreorg™ forDistributed Databases to improve database efficiency and fast data extraction with CA FastUnload® for Distributed Databases.

• Restructure objects that have become fragmented

• Reclaim space used by dropped tables, recluster data, rebalance index trees and reduce thenumber of index levels

• Maintain availability of data and applications during reorganization process

• Combine data extraction with control of output file format

• Unload into multiple formats

INTEGRATION WITH CA'S APPLICATION, NETWORK, AND SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENTSOLUTIONS Monitoring performance across many different applications, databases, networksand systems is a formidable task for which centralized management is needed to help maintainand control the environment. Because highly available databases are meaningless to thebusiness if your supporting infrastructure goes down, CA Insight DPM is a critical componentwhen building an overall integrated performance management strategy. The integratedperformance management solutions from CA include CA eHealth® Network PerformanceManager (CA eHealth NPM), CA SPECTRUM® Network Fault Manager (CA SPECTRUM NFM),CA Network and Systems Management (CA NSM)/CA Advanced Systems Management (CAASM) and CA Wily Introscope®, which can all be licensed separately.

Integration Benefits:

• In-context integration with CA Wily Introscope includes dashboards for DB2 for LUW, DB2for z/OS, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases. This helps you troubleshoot and resolveissues quickly to maintain application availability.

• In-context integration with CA eHealth NPM/CA SPECTRUM NFM includes many reportsand views for DB2 for LUW, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase databases. This provides youwith a comprehensive view of both database and network performance information forcorrelation of alerts and fault determination to resolve issues quickly.

• In-context integration with CA NSM/CA Advanced Systems Management includesworkspace visualization and scoreboards within the CA Unicenter Management Portal,Management Command Center, topology map interfaces. Database coverage includes DB2for LUW, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase as well as monitoring of databases in MicrosoftSQL Server Clusters and Oracle Real Application Clusters. This gives you the ability toimplement consolidated performance and event management information, helping staffcollaborate across IT management disciplines to identify and resolve issues more quickly.


DATABASE INFORMATION WITHIN CA eHEALTH NPM REPORTS INTEGRATION EXAMPLE

Key CapabilitiesCROSS DATABASE MANAGEMENT In-context integration unifies and simplifies yourmanagement of different RDBMS and provides a consistent look and feel that helps youexpand your skills to manage more databases. If you decide to add the additional databasemanagement capabilities for database restructuring and fast data extraction, the newfunctionality is seamlessly enabled with the same in-context integration.

INCREASE AVAILABILITY WITH 24 X 7 MONITORING No matter the number of databases, size, orsystem they reside on, you can keep them up and operating at maximum efficiency. The sharedmemory data collection architecture was designed to handle large and complex multi-databaseenvironments so you can scale up and out without overburdening the servers you are monitoring.

FIGURE B

Database Quality Index For Easy ViewOf Overall Database Health.


• Flexible Remote or Agent-Based Monitoring CA Insight DPM gives you the choice ofremote, agent-based monitoring or both. Remote monitoring is useful in circumstanceswhere an agent cannot be deployed on the system where the database resides, while agent-based monitoring can continue even when networks become limited or unavailable. If yourequire scalability and high availability, agents, common services, and shared memoryarchitecture minimizes resource utilization on the server and network services. Configurationto remotely monitor DB2 for LUW, Oracle, SQL Server utilizing native database clientsoftware can also be achieved.

• Database Discover and Adaptive Monitoring Automatic database discovery helps youselect databases to monitor and instantiates objects when started. This means there is nopre-configuration or reconfiguration needed as database objects are added or removed. Theproduct automatically acknowledges and responds to changes in the database so you don’thave to review what has changed and then reconfigure each time to monitor.

• Database, System and I/O Detail Monitor database performance in real time, with time-based graphical displays and up-to-the minute statistical data. Because performance isinterdependent on interactions outside of the RDBMS, database operating system and I/Oactivity is also monitored and captured. Data is collected and presented cohesively within asingle insightful console; you see the information and alarms correlated and in-context to thedisplay so you can diagnose problems quickly and then initiate repair. Database metriccollection is typical single-digit CPU utilization.

NOTIFICATION AND EVENT MANAGEMENT Changing business conditions, data influx andoperations make database performance a moving target. Prevent unexpected outages, eliminatefirefighting and regain control of your databases with notification and event management.

• Unattended Monitoring with Preset Scans Utilize hundreds of predefined scans thatmonitor critical components for problems and collect workload statistics on an enterprisewide basis. This reduces the need for you to write and maintain custom scripts for eachdatabase system separately.

• Proactive Alarm and Bottleneck Notification Alarms provide intelligent advisement andare integrated in-context for faster problem resolution. With multi threshold capabilities, youcan customize how far in advance you want to be notified of congestion or an out of boundcondition with predefined thresholds. Alarms exist for an array of conditions, including locking,storage, bottlenecks, contention, inadequate memory and many others. Alarm notificationcan go to the CA DCC as well as email, mobile device, or another master event console.

• Event Response By checking user-defined performance groups and scan parameters,conditions that exceed thresholds for corrective actions are measured and reported. Theevent management system sends alert notification for an array of conditions, includinginadequate space, long running processes, high CPU utilization and inadequate swap orsystem space. You can take corrective action or setup event management responses or userdefined scripts to take action when conditions are met and prevent database degradation oreven an outage.

• Event Integration Event integration is built-in so you don’t have to make an additionalpurchase or have the added work or risk associated with custom scripting. Alerts can berouted to many third-party consoles.


INTERACTIVE REAL-TIME AND LONG-TERM HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS Optimizedatabase availability with proactive problem detection and alerting, including analysis anddiagnostic capabilities for faster problem resolution. You can select to have performanceinformation collected and stored in a repository or a flat file. This will provide you withsummarized and detailed performance trending and diagnostics information, real-time and/orhistorical, within one graphical interface. As information is recalled from the past, it iscorrelated and displayed as if you had been there watching in real time. You can increase youroverall responsiveness, decrease time to resolution and improve efficiency by spotting andfixing performance issues before they become problems.

• Database Quality Health Index Within one view, all monitored databases are displayedand prioritized by a database quality of service. This feature eliminates the need for you towrite scripts to determine database accessibility. It will automatically prioritize for you thedatabases that require attention before issues reach critical mass.

• SQL Capture and Store Often performance problems are not apparent because of addedcomplexity. SQL is a good example of something that is complicated by variations bydatabase vendor. You can identify top SQL resource consumers and capture SQL for offlinereview and SQL statement optimization.

• Trending and Workload Analysis Monitor the present state of the workload generated byyour unique system and review historical trend information. Choose what scans and atwhich detail you wish to monitor, save and display with user defined configuration.

• Historical Replay Performance information is stored in a compressed time-series form witharchive compression that you can configure. Monitor the present state of databases andcompare them to historical baselines from workload metrics unique to your system. Youchoose at which depth you wish to collect information as well as how long to retain it fortrending as well as capacity planning purposes.

CUSTOMIZABLE BROWSER-BASED CONSOLE The CA Insight DPM browser-based, platformindependent interface provides the information you need to effectively and efficiently locateand resolve database performance issues, keeping underlying database complexity transparent.CA Insight DPM provides you with a common look to navigate different databases and quicklyidentify and pinpoint problems on an individual or enterprise wide database without havingto learn different syntax or commands when managing unfamiliar database platforms. Thebrowser-based interface is built using industry standard technology to ensure optimumperformance, provide a consistent look and feel and offers user customization for sitespecific requirements.

AT-A-GLANCE AND DETAILED PERFORMANCE INFORMATION Quickly identify performanceanomalies, trends and out of bound conditions with grouping of key performance indicatorsand statistics, summarized and displayed in a context you can use. For greater depth, use thedirect access to a specific performance scan and drill-down statistic detail.


• No Dedicated Console Required Performance data collection operation is not reliant on aconsole continuously being connected. Autonomously retrieve and save performance datainto a shared memory segment locally, independent of any consoles that are running. Agentsoperate with three different scan intervals: real-time, alarm and archive. These “scan rates”are a feature of the agents themselves and not a function of a console. When a consolerequests a metric, the agent enters “real-time” mode of operation and populates its sharedmemory segment with the performance data. Regardless of the number of consoles running,the only overhead incurred is merely the network transmission for the requested datacontained in the shared memory segment or buffer. With CA Insight DPM, the console is nota single point of failure as monitoring and performance collection continues even when aconsole is not up and running. The ability for you to have a console available almostanywhere when you need to check your databases remotely — without client softwareinstallation or the added work of maintaining it.

• Centralized Standalone and Integrated Performance Management Standalone, CA InsightDPM provides you with centralized multi-database performance management includingdatabase internals, CPU, memory, I/O, subsystem metrics and capture of SQL statements inone common console. Integrated into CA eHealth NPM, CA SPECTRUM NFM, CA NSM/CAASM, or CA Wily Introscope, CA Insight DPM provides IT with a correlated enterprise viewof applications, networks, and databases combined.

• Built-In Online Help CA Insight DPM includes online knowledge with advisor text thatdetails each statistic specific to the RDBMS: DB2 for LUW, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybaseand information on how to troubleshoot the problem. This helps you optimize databaseperformance to maximum efficiency. If you are unfamiliar with any of the supporteddatabase platforms, you can utilize the online advisor text to shorten your learning curveand quickly resolve issues.

TARGET DATABASES AND ENVIRONMENTS (32/64 BIT)

NOTE: Target representation in general, new certifications continue to be released. Please consultCA Support Online or your CA Sales Representative on your requirements.

DATABASES

• IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX,Windows

• Microsoft SQL Server• Oracle Database • Sybase

INTEGRATION

• CA NSM/ASM r11.0, 11.1• CA eHealth NPM 6.0 SP2 • CA Wily Introscope r8• CA SPECTRUM NFM r9 SP1• Alert notification to

Third-Party

HOST/SERVERS

• Microsoft Windows • UNIX

– Sun Solaris– HP-UX (PA-RISC, Itanium)– IBM AIX

• Linux– Red Hat Linux – SuSE Linux


CA Insight DPM Simplifies Database Performance Management toImprove Service AvailabilityPrior to the availability of technology capable of centrally managing databases from multiplevendors, you might have relied on traditional or separate monitoring techniques for databaseavailability and performance monitoring. With dynamically changing technology like SOAextending beyond the conventional group, business unit, or company wall, it necessitatesrethinking what was once thought of as managed. Significant accomplishment in technologyfor central database management across vendors and platforms integrated with systems andnetwork management is now available to you using CA Insight DPM.

IMPROVE DATABASE PERFORMANCE ISSUE RESOLUTION TIME Only one click needed to seedatabase health for all monitored databases across the enterprise.

INDEPENDENCE FROM DATABASE OR SERVER PLATFORM Only one interface needed to manageall databases, providing you with a consistent look and feel across database vendors andoperating system platforms.

SPEED COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM RESOLUTION TIME BETWEEN APPLICATION, DATABASE,NETWORK AND SYSTEMS TEAMS All teams see the same truth as database information fromCA Insight DPM propagates CA eHealth NPM, CA SPECTRUM NFM, CA NSM/CA ASM,CA Wily Introscope.

In order for you to manage database complexity, you need the capability to get to the core ofthe problem. Understanding where applications are hitting the various tiers of the infrastructure,such as across the network, to systems and storage, to the database, all the way up throughthe application server and application tiers. Consolidating operations and enabling bestpractices across the IT infrastructure with automation enables increased business capabilitiesas well as controls costs as your business needs change.

The CA AdvantageTo optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of your overall IT environment, youneed to tightly integrate the lifecycle, control and management of distinct functions such asoperations, administration and service management, along with security and governance.

CA’s vision for enabling this higher level of management control is Enterprise IT Management(EITM). EITM is a dynamic, secure approach that integrates and automates the managementof information technology applications, databases, networks, security, storage and systemsacross departments and disciplines to maximize the full potential of each. CA’s comprehensiveportfolio of modular IT management solutions helps the enterprise unify, simplify and secureIT to better manage risk, costs and service, and ensure that IT meets the business needs ofthe enterprise.

Next StepsCA Database Management Solutions can integrate and automate management of distributedand mainframe databases across the enterprise to reduce your administrative costs as well asincrease performance and strengthen your compliance capabilities.

To learn more about how CA Database Management can help your organization, visit us atca.com/databasemanagement

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