- How to Use This Catalog
- Form and Content of Process Catalog Entries
- Application Optimization
- Asset Management
- Budget Management
- Business Continuity
- Business Relationship Management
- Capacity Planning
- Change Management
- Configuration Management
- Contract Management
- Contractor Management
- Cost Recovery
- Data Storage Management
- Facilities Management
- Inventory Management
- Job Scheduling
- Negotiation Management
- Network Management
- Output Management
- Performance Management
- Problem Management
- Production Acceptance
- Production Control
- Physical Database Management
- Quality Assurance
- Security Management
- Service-Level Management
- Service Request Management
- Software Distribution
- System Monitoring
- Tape Management
- Workload Monitoring
Performance Management
The aim of this process is to manage and maintain end-to-end performance for all workloads and environments.
Tasks |
Skills |
Analyze performance of IT systems, storage, and networks Define processes and procedures for performance management Define thresholds and rules of thumb for optimal performance |
Knowledge of all application processes and relationships Ability to utilize performance tools Understand performance of infrastructure components Ability to adjust tuning parameters within each environment |
Staffing |
Automation Technology |
Performance analyst Systems tuning specialist Network optimization specialist |
Performance-monitoring tools Application-modeling tools Performance diagnostic tools All major operating systems, databases, transaction-processing subsystems, and hardware assist features (such as caching) |
Best Practices |
Metrics |
Use of a common organization and performance-management process for all enterprise environments Development and maintenance of a mapping of business systems to performance patterns, using the following categories (patterns): Systems requiring sub-second transaction response time Collaborative systems Decision-support systems Systems supporting remote users Batch operations Integration of performance management with production acceptance process Use of policy-based objectives in the form of: Workload managers Service-level agreements |
Consistent and repeatable: CPU service times Response times Batch turnaround Decision-support systems/database applications response times Continuous improvement in achieving performance service levels Continuous improvement in performance processes |
Process Integration |
Futures |
Capacity planning Problem management |
Dynamic (self-analyzing) tuning by application and cross-environments Simulation/modeling of performance expectations for each of the seven patterns Predictive performance problem identification |