Daily VM Report Format Descriptions
The Daily Management Objective Reports are produced as a standard process in the
MICS DAILY
job stream. The SAS CHART procedure is used to produce the desired bar chart reports.rm
The Daily Management Objective Reports are produced as a standard process in the
MICS DAILY
job stream. The SAS CHART procedure is used to produce the desired bar chart reports.The heading lines contain the installation name (e.g., XYZ Manufacturing, Inc.), the frequency identification (e.g., DAILY VM MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES) the objective being reported (e.g., VM RESOURCE CONSUMPTION WITHIN 2700 CPU SECONDS/HOUR), and the computing system (e.g., SYSID code) on which the VM processing was measured.
The format of the bar chart illustrates the hour of the day along the horizontal axis and the measurement being reported (e.g., availability), along the vertical axis. The day being reported is identified below the hours of the day, just under the horizontal axis.
The vertical axis is used to chart the measure being reported and it is with this axis that the management objective for this category is defined. The vertical axis is first established through the SAS CHART AXIS option which simply identifies the highest value to be represented on the vertical axis. The management objective is then illustrated through the SAS CHART REF option and formats a dashed line across the page to illustrate the management objective.
Consider the charting of the hourly objective for Q1 service (response time; see the Daily VM Service Report). The title describes the management objective as having average Q1 service within three seconds for all Q1 activity (usually equal to VM trivial command response time). The measure that will be charted is the average Q1 service time, shown for each hour of the day. The vertical axis, therefore, is set up for a maximum value of three seconds, and the vertical reference line is printed at the three- second level. This reference line then clearly depicts how the objective was satisfied or missed for each hour of the day.
A special note should be made at this time to point out that the location of the reference line on the vertical axis may be rounded for purposes of scaling the axis. Each vertical line may have a unit value of .10 seconds, so a reference line specification of 1.75 seconds does not fall directly on a vertical axis coordinate. In this case, the 1.75-second line is shown as a line at 1.80 seconds.
The member DYVMCMBO in the sharedprefix.MICS.SOURCE library contains the SAS statements for producing the charts. The member #VMCMOBJ contains the SAS statements used by DYVMCMBO. The #VMCMOBJ member contains the specifications for defining the objectives to be displayed and may be modified to reflect your installation's unique management objectives. For defining your installation objectives, see the VM Management Objective Report Options.
The remainder of this section explains and illustrates each of the standard Daily VM Management Objective Reports.