Changes and Enhancements to Adapters

MXG Adapters at Level 29.07

MXG adapters are updated to level 29.07. Earlier and later releases of the MXG software should be compatible with the SAS IT Resource Management adapters for MXG data sources.

New Adapters: RRDTool and CSV

SAS IT Resource Management 3.3 supports two new adapters:
  • RRDTool Adapter for Round Robin Databases (RRDs), which enables IT administrators to create IT data marts for the analysis of those IT measurements retained in RRDs. The SAS IT Resource Management implementation lets you create staging code, sets of standard aggregations, and information maps for that data.
  • CSV (Comma Separated Values) adapter, which enables IT administrators to create IT data marts for the analysis of those IT measurements retained in CSV files. The SAS IT Resource Management implementation lets you create staging code, sets of standard aggregations, and information maps for that data.

SAR Adapter

Performance of the SAR adapter when processing a large number of log files is increased. The adapter now more efficiently reads the SAR log files and then uses the SAS MPCONNECT procedure to stage data in parallel using multiple processors. Other changes include:
  • The SAR adapter has been tested and works with SAR data collected from z/Linux systems.
  • The SAR adapter has a simplified process for adding new columns and tables to accommodate SAR log file changes.
  • The SAR adapter enables you to easily change duplicate checking parameters through the SAS IT Resource Management user interface.

New CICS Reports

CICS reporting jobs for the CicsApplid and CicsAppliedTrans domain subcategories are included in the supplied reports for SAS IT Resource Management 3.3.
These reports pertain to the DayHour time period.

VMware vCenter Updates

Overview of Updates to VMware

The analysis of VMware data collected in the vCenter database is one of the fastest growing uses of SAS IT Resource Management. SAS IT Resource Management 3.3 introduces data model and intelligence reports to reflect the popularity of this feature.

New Cluster Measurements

VMware vCenter is updated to provide additional capacity planning intelligence. The VMware data model now supports total cluster measurements for CPU and memory metrics.

New Domain Intelligence Reports

The new reports for this adapter communicate the processing and memory capacity aspects of VMware clusters. The reports also communicate intelligence that is useful in identifying possibly unused, zombie, and abandoned virtual machines within the VMware infrastructure. The reports can also show the percentage of cluster resources that are consumed by guest systems that are allocated to those clusters.

New Formulas for VMware

Two new formulas are available in SAS IT Resource Management 3.3. Both of these formulas use a measure (or load factor) that is intended to estimate the CPU and memory consumed by the host system, not resources made available to the VMware system. A default load factor of 20% is used by the reports supplied by SAS IT Resource Management. Instructions to modify the load factor are included in the projects for reports that use that metric.

New Web Log Reports

New reports are available for the Web Log adapter.
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