Performance Management Tools Brick

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Description

Performance Management is the trending of end-to-end response time and performance parameters from network, system and application components to predict short-term future performance degradation. This discipline assists in quicker problem diagnosis, thus reducing downtime, and can even provide advance warning of imminent problems so that they can be prevented proactively.

In the future, this brick will be further sub-categorized into: Database, Application,Server types, Storage, Network and Middleware.

Brick Information
Tactical (0-2 years)	Strategic (2-5 years)
CA Unicenter HP Openview Nagios Perfmon RRD SiteScope SysEdge
Retirement (To be eliminated)	Containment (No new development)
Visual Basic Console App (Homegrown)	Applimation DB Downsizer BMC/Mainview CA/OPS/MVS Envision HP Insight Manager IP Monitor Ipscan KeyNote/ (outsourced) NetScout nGenius On Centennial Open NMS
Baseline (Today)	Emerging (To track)
Applimation DB Downsizer BMC/Mainview CA Unicenter CA/OPS/MVS SysEdge Envision HP Insight Manager HP OpenView IP Monitor ipscan KeyNote/ (outsourced) RRD Nagios NetScout nGenius On Centennial Open NMS PerfMon SiteScope Visual Basic Console App (Homegrown)	Performance management tools that leverage instrumentation in J2EE applications. Other leading or innovative vendors of Event Management tools, such as: Mercury Interactive Topaz IPM (Cisco) Proactive Net Gomez

Comments

Strategic tools will be determined after elements to be monitored are defined in the ESM process design and implementation efforts.
Tools in italics font were designated as Containment because there was no evidence from current deployments to consider those products as superior alternatives to the products that were designated Tactical and Strategic.
Tactical and strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
Some baseline products have been designated retirement and containment. These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected tactical and strategic products.