Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Welcome to Performance Gallery Gold

Product Requirements

Product Support

Lund Performance Solutions Product Support

Demand Technology Software Product Support

Product Documentation

Online Help System

Reference Materials

Product Overview

Product Description

New Features (F.01)

Components

Host Data Collectors

Procedural Summaries

MPE/iX Systems

Unix Systems

Windows NT/2000 Systems

Product Startup

Starting Performance Gallery Gold

Accessing the Online Help Facility

Exiting Performance Gallery Gold

Data Collection, Extraction, and Export

MPE/iX Performance Data

Collecting MPE/iX Performance Data

Extracting MPE/iX Performance Data

Exporting MPE/iX Performance Data

Establishing MPE/iX Workloads

Unix Performance Data

Collecting Unix Performance Data

Extracting Unix Performance Data

Exporting Unix Performance Data

Establishing Unix Workloads

Windows NT/2000 Performance Data

Collecting Windows NT/2000 Performance Data

Performance Gallery Gold Quick Tour

The Charts

Getting Started

Starting Performance Gallery Gold

Opening a New Data File

Assigning an Alias

Opening a New Chart

Analyzing the Charts

CPU Utilization Chart

Logical Disk Response Time Chart

File Cache by Activity Type Chart

Processor Queue Length Chart

Saving the Desktop

Exiting Performance Gallery Gold

Menus and Commands

Open Data File

Close Data File

Close All Data

System Alias Manager

Most Recently Used Data Files

Continuous Update

Update Options

Current File Statistics

Print Current Chart

Print Preview

Print All

Print Setup

Graph Print Setting

Exit

Copy

Clear

Export

Toolbar

Status Bar

Exception Window

Zoom

Unzoom

Options

Load Desktop

Reload Desktop

Close Desktop

Save Desktop

Recently Used Desktop

Set Default Desktop

Default Desktop

Cascade

Tile Horizontal

Tile Vertical

Arrange Icons

Refresh

Active Charts

Template Menu and Commands

Buttons

Tabs

General Properties

Graph Properties

Table Properties

Thresholds Properties

Data Properties

Links Properties

Secondary Properties

Template Colors

Chart Menu and Commands

General

Marker

Start

End

Shifts

Averaging

Updating

Select Secondary Items

Global Chart Options

Timeline Options

Global Date/Time Select

Shift Settings

MPE/iX System Performance

Processor Performance

A Queue and B Queue Percentages

CPU Busy Percentage

CPU Compatibility Mode Percentage

CPU Queue Length

High Priority Percentage

ICS/OH+Dispatcher Busy Percentage

Memory Performance

CPU Memory Manager Percentage

Page Fault Rates

Swaps per Launch Ratio

Disk Performance

CPU Pause Percentage

Disk I/O Rate

Disk Queue Length

Read Hit Percentage

File Space Free

File Space Used

File Space Used by Device

File Space Utilization

File Space Utilization by Device

Process Information

Summary of MPE/iX Pulse Points

Unix System Performance

Processor Performance

CPU Busy Percentage

CPU High Priority Busy Percentage

Real Time Processing Percentage

Run Queue Average

System Processing Percentage

Memory Performance

Memory Used Percentage

Page Outs per Second

Deactivations per Second

Disk Performance

Disk Queue Length

Read Hit Percentage

Disk I/O Rate

Summary of Unix Pulse Points

Windows NT/2000 System Performance

Processor Performance

Processor Utilization

Processor Queue Length

Processor Utilization by Processor

System Configuration

CPU Utilization by Process

Memory Performance

Real Memory Utilization

Memory Usage by Active Processes

Virtual Memory Usage (commit%)

Demand Paging

Clustered Paging I/O Operations

Paging Activity (total)

Paging Operations

Memory Utilization Index

File Cache Performance

File Cache Activity by Type

File Cache Lazy Writer

File Cache Read Activity

Cached File System Mapping Requests

File Server Performance

File Server Activity

File Server Work Queues

File Server Request Rate

Logical Disk Performance

How diskperf works

Logical Disk Response Time

Logical Disk Detail

Logical Disk Utilization

Logical Disk Average Queue Length

Physical Disk Performance

Redirector Performance

Network Activity (redirector)

Network Traffic Performance

Network Utilization

Network Interface Traffic

System Activity

Windows NT/2000 Objects and Counters

Cache Object Counters

Logical Disk Performance Object

Logical Disk Object Counters

Network Interface Object Counters

Processor Object

Processor Object Counters

Redirector Object

Redirector Object Counter

Server Object Counters

System Performance Object Counters

Program Messages

Keyboard Commands

File Menu Commands

Edit Menu Commands

View Menu Commands

Desktop Menu Commands

Template Menu Commands

Chart Menu Commands

Window Menu Commands

Help Menu Commands

Commands to Maneuver Charts

Maneuvering 3D Graphs

Maneuvering 2D Charts

Automating Performance Gallery Gold

Customizing a Shortcut

FTP in Batch Files

Scheduling for the Batch Files

Automation Commands

Example Automation Settings

Index