ESAMAP is a flexible software product that analyzes performance data and produces clear, detailed reports for performance analysis. ESAMAP is designed to efficiently store, retrieve, and report on monitor data for capacity planning and long-term performance trend analysis. It also provides "artificial intelligence" problem analysys and taking remedial action as appropriate. Velocity Software designed ESAMAP to produce a wide range of reports, providing insight into all aspects of VM and Linux performance. You can gather information on resource contention, consumption levels, transaction response times, enhanced MDC, user service levels — all presented in the clear format you need to manage, plan and control system resources. ESAMAP provides the most sophisticated, comprehensive reporting capabilities available.
The industry leader: Since 1988, ESAMAP has continued to gain market share as the most comprehensive VM performance monitor on the market. Being the industry leader means leading in all areas. If you have a performance problem, you need the leader, you need to have all the information available to you. Velocity Software is the solution.
Comprehensive Reporting: Over 100 different reports are provided, from high-level overviews to detailed subsystem reports. Complete system reporting includes our unique service level agreement (SLA) reporting, statistical summaries, full DASD cache analysis, SFS analysis, device analysis, minidisk cache usage, and seeks analysis. If there's something we're not reporting, we want to know
As IBM continues to strengthen VM, Velocity Software continues to enhance ESAMAP.
Easy-to-use Reports: ESAMAP reports are presented in a natural and intuitive hierarchy, from management summaries to subsystem reports ideal for fine-tuning and capacity planning.
Service Level Agreements: ESAMAP's unique ability to provide transaction response based on percentiles is often used for written service level agreements. This is the only proven your user response time measurement technique that is consistent, accurate, and reflects user perception. The Service Level Agreement (SLA) facility measures actual user response time against management objectives, reported as both percentages and averages — the only such facility in a VM product.
Trend Analysis: ESAMAP's comprehensive historical reporting can process history files or raw monitor data for report creation and long-term trend analysis.
Performance Database: The performance database functions provided with ESAMAP include the ability to extract data, plot values, and create your custom reports using varied reporting tools.
Plotting Facility ESAMAP includes a general purpose, easy-to-use graphical plot facility for quick interactive plotting, as well as an extract program to transfer specific data from history files to PC graphics packages, SAS, VMPAF, et al.
Standard Interface: ESAMAP exploits monitor data generated by VM's Control Program. This allows the product to run under any version of VM, starting with VM/XA and continuing through the latest versions.
ESAMAP has no hooks into the operating system. It is fully upward-compatible, and older versions continue to run on new versions and releases of the VM operating system with absolutely no changes required. But that doesn't mean Velocity lets the product stagnate — constant improvements exploit the latest additions to VM and Linux monitoring capabilities, providing the most up-to-date analysis of any product.
The famous ESATUNE Report: Artificial intelligence provides tuning recommendations every time you run ESAMAP. The ESATUNE report flags potential performance bottlenecks and provides recommended actions for remediation.
Low operation cost: ESAMAP provides extensive reporting about all VM/ subsystems, even DASD seeks analysis, without taxing your systems resources. ESAMAP runs many times faster than our competitors' historical monitors, and uses far fewer resources. Velocity Software's product architecture completely eliminates the requirement to collect and store raw monitor data. In tandem with our real-time monitor, ESAMON, this typically frees up 95% of the disk space currently dedicated to storing monitor data.
ESAMAP 3.4 is available as of July 1, 2004 for Beta Testing to licensed installations. This release adds support for analyzing VM storage constraints and virtual switches (VSWITCHes), plus significant new Linux reporting capabilities. The capture ratio for Linux processes now approaches 100% for all workloads.
