The IBM OMEGAMON XE on z/VM and Linux tool collects performance metrics and allows customers to store them in a data warehouse (included). Customers choose what to keep and they summarize and prune the data based on the reporting they would like to consider. Another included feature of any OMEGAMON or IBM Tivoli Monitoring component is the Cognos based reporting tool Tivoli Common Reporter (TCR) which enables custom and dynamic reporting against the data in the data warehouse. Many customers use this to produce the kind of reports you are mentioning. Not only can you report on z/VM and Linux data, but any other data in the data warehouse. If you collect middleware or database data on those Linux guests, these attributes can be included in this reporting structure. Finally, another included feature that uses this same warehouse data is the Tivoli Performance Analyzer which adds vendor supplied predictive capability focusing on future performance issues. Customers can change values and play "what if" type of scenarios. All in all, you get real-time performance analysis, custom reporting, and predictive analysis in one tool set.
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