System Performance Metrics

For example, you may want to know if there are more than 50 items in a queue or if any item has been waiting in a queue for longer than a specified amount of time.

You must have the required permissions to access IBM Cognos Administration Secured Functions and Features.

Using metrics, you can assess the status of the system as a whole, along with the status of individual servers, dispatchers, and services. You can view the attributes for each metric score, set the threshold values that are used to calculate metric scores, and reset metrics. You may want to refresh report service connections if a PowerCube has been rebuilt.

You can also perform functions such as starting and stopping dispatchers or services Stopping and starting dispatchers and services, and unregistering dispatchers Removing dispatchers from the environment.

You can use log files to analyze long-range performance and usage Setting up Logging.

You can create a metric dump file for troubleshooting purposes.