Performance Navigator

  • Capacity Planning and Performance Analysis Software

Robot Performance Navigator

Performance Navigator

Performance Navigator is a graphical PC tool, which supports Performance Management, Capacity Planning and and Troubleshooting of IBM i (System i, iSeries, AS/400), AIX/UNIX, VIOS, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX systems.

Historical Performance Analysis for Your Systems:

Performance Navigator is the software of choice for performance analysis and capacity planning in thousands of data centers around the world. Its robust suite of analysis scripts and reports—known as Power Analytics—helps you ensure that critical performance metrics (including CPU, disk, and memory) are safely within best practice guidelines.

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Capacity Planning with Confidence:

Based on the comprehensive historical data it collects for all critical metrics, Performance Navigator makes it possible for you to make capacity planning decisions with precision. Its trademark What If feature allows you to model hypothetical scenarios and determine how capacity changes will impact server performance.

Problem Determination:

Whether it’s a current system slowdown or a need to understand what happened to the system at 2:00 a.m. last night while you were asleep, you can use Performance Navigator to get a fast and thorough problem determination summary in under two minutes.

Upgrades in the past were more on projections without substantial data to support a modeling, good guesswork. Oftentimes, business partners in the sizing of systems would overprovision on a CPU and commercial processing workload and disk arming for purposes of not getting it wrong. [Performance Navigator] gives me the ability to confidently architect a system that will perform well from day one. I do not engage in a Power Systems upgrade opportunity without using this tool.

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Why should I choose Performance Navigator?

Capacity Planning

Plan and configure upgrades, server consolidations, LPAR configurations, and competitive migrations using the powerful What If capacity planning feature in Performance Navigator. Workloads from any or all servers can be combined and modeled to any IBM i, AIX/UNIX, VIOS, Linux, Solaris, or HP-UX server.

Problem Determination

Whether it’s a planned change or a situation where you discover that something has changed on one of your production virtual machines (VMs), the What’s Different Analysis feature in Performance Navigator shows a before-and-after analysis, so you can easily identify what’s different between good days and bad days.

Performance Analysis

Analyze historical performance data for complex CPU, memory, and disk reports in HTML output for one partition, the whole frame, or the entire enterprise using the trademark Power Analytics feature in Performance Navigator.

Key Features of Robot Performance Navigator:

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Get to know your systems at a deeper level. Whether your servers are running IBM i, AIX, Linux, HP-UX, or Solaris, Performance Navigator allows you to view historical system performance data graphically from your Windows PC.
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Use the Power Analytics feature in Performance Navigator to grade all core performance metrics against best practice guidelines and automate the reporting process, so management can have peace of mind knowing that all production machines are running optimally.
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Understanding performance trends ensures successful capacity planning projects. Performance Navigator is capable of modeling workloads on IBM Power Systems servers, Linux servers (all platforms), Oracle servers, and HP servers from a single user interface.
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The only constant in IT is change. Rely on the Enterprise Hardware Summary feature in Performance Navigator to stay on top of your hardware and operating system software configurations.
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Whether it’s a planned change or a situation where you discover that something has changed on one of your production machines, the What’s Different Analysis feature in Performance Navigator shows a before-and-after analysis, so you can easily identify what’s different between good days and bad days.
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Especially valuable for IT organizations where application development (AppDev) is integrated into a quality assurance (QA) process, Performance Navigator gives you the ability to analyze jobs historically and group jobs into functional areas (warehouse jobs, order entry jobs, etc.).
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The Power Analytics feature in Performance Navigator includes a suite of disk reports that allow you to measure individual auxiliary storage pools (ASPs) and the integrated file system (IFS) to get a better understanding of how disk usage is growing.
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The Executive Performance Overview (EXPO) dashboard in Performance Navigator provides historical data for today, yesterday, last week, and last month, as well as a view tailored for capacity planning purposes. This high-level snapshot of enterprise-wide performance also features drilldown reporting and a customizable output portal.

Change the Capacity Planning Game with Power Analytics

Understanding your enterprise doesn’t have to be difficult. The Power Analytics feature in Performance Navigator makes performance reporting, problem determination, and capacity planning easy. Suddenly, you have a fast and easy way to analyze and report on:

  • Job status and performance

  • Service levels and response time

  • Disk usage

  • Memory and memory pools

  • Daily health checks for all LPARs

  • Multi-system performance comparisons

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