- 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
Workload Monitoring
This process ensures consistent, stable, and predictable workflow cycles by monitoring all job streams for completion (and following up on job exceptions). It works with the Production Control process to optimize workflow and to facilitate the handling of ad hoc and emergency requests without disruption.
Tasks |
Skills |
Evaluate the health of specific jobs/workloads as assigned Expedite workload processing to ensure service-level agreement compliance Define ways to better improve monitoring processes/automation |
Attention to detail Ability to follow a methodology consistently Understanding of major, critical job streams and business functions that they support Expertise in operating environments and chosen automation tool(s) |
Staffing |
Automation Technology |
Console operator Systems operations specialist Production coordinator |
BMC Control-M/Enterprise Console System (ECS) CA-Unicenter TNG Workload Management, (PLAT) AutoSys, CA-Jobtrac, CA-Scheduler, CA-7, CA-Jobwatch, FAQS/PCS Cybermation ESP Workload Manager ISA AppWorx SEA CSAR SMA The Scheduler, OpCon/XPS Tivoli Workload Manager (Maestro), (IBM) OPC/ESA |
Best Practices |
Metrics |
High degree of workload monitoring automation Eventual elimination of all manual job "set-ups" Ability to monitor jobs scheduled on different operating platforms Integration of workload monitoring with event management |
Number of operators per 10,000 jobs Percent of jobs run on time Number of ad hoc requests handled Number of exceptions per 10,000 jobs |
Process Integration |
Futures |
Production control |
Additional automation Better cross-platform integration |