Optim™ Performance Manager Extended Edition, a follow-on to DB2® Performance Expert, is one of the key products of the IBM® Optim Solution. Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition provides a comprehensive, proactive performance management approach. It helps organizations resolve emergent database problems before they impact the business.

This IBM Redbooks® publication describes the architecture and components of Optim Performance Manager Extended Edition. We provide information for planning the deployment of Optim Performance Manager and detail steps for successful installation, activation, and configuration of Optim Performance Manager and the Extended Insight client.

Optim Performance Manager delivers a new paradigm in terms of how it is used to monitor and manage database and database application performance issues. We describe individual product dashboards and reports and discuss, with various scenarios, how they can be used to identify, diagnose, prevent, and solve database performance problems.

Chapter 1. Optim Performance Manager overview

Chapter 2. Planning

Chapter 3. Installing and configuring Optim Performance Manager

Chapter 4. Getting to know Optim Performance Manager

Chapter 5. Monitoring I/O utilization

Chapter 6. Monitoring CPU and memory usage

Chapter 7. Analyzing locking problems

Chapter 8. Extended Insight analysis

Chapter 9. Troubleshooting failing transactions alert

Chapter 10. Integration with Tivoli monitoring components

Chapter 11. Workload Manager configuration tool

Chapter 12. Monitoring SAP environments

Appendix A. Managing repository server and repository database

Appendix B. Optim Performance Manager footprint