Teradata Management Portlets

Data Warehousing

At-a-Glance System Status with Dynamic Performance Analysis Tools

Todays huge and complex data warehouses demand ever increasing levels of automation and management. And that means you must have all the tools and technologies right at your fingertips to be able to view and analyze system performance whenever and wherever necessary. What you need is a true command center, a centralized location where you can monitor Teradata Databases and visualize realtime performance and historical trends. Thats why Teradata Corporation, the global leader in data warehousing and analytics, has developed the Teradata Management Portlets bundle: to give you everything you need for analysis and display of performance and database utilization information through leadingedge portal interfaces. The portlets are Teradata Lowers Cost of Ownership Teradata Management Portlets bundle offers you a powerful and versatile collection of integrated database management portlets and provides you with real-time insight to handle your increasingly complex production environment. It allows you to efficiently process your most critical work and keep your entire enterprise running at peak performance. Its a combination that translates to less work for administrators and a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than other data warehouse databases on the market today. easy to use and are accessible from select Web browsers by managers, business intelligence (BI) users, and database administrators (DBAs).

Easy Deployment and Use Teradata Management Portlets are built on the market leading Teradata Viewpoint portal management framework. Teradata Viewpoint, the foundation for all Teradata management activities, delivers a web-based interface common to all the management portlets, making it easy to deploy and use new portlets with minimal training. Among Teradata Viewpoints features are: > Consistent user experience across all Teradata management portlets. > No client tool installation; all portlets are accessible from any web browser. > Performance data are collected in a local Teradata Viewpoint appliance cache to eliminate the impact on the Teradata Database. > Rewind enables you to rewind a portlet to any previous time slot from previously collected data. Performance Analysis and Problem Resolution Teradata Management Portlets allow for query, manipulation, and display of actions against current and historical performance and usage data to allow you to quickly identify and resolve resource bottlenecks and ensure your Teradata systems are running at peak efficiency. With Teradata Viewpoints flexible portal management framework, you can organize and group the portlets columns and tabs. The portlets provide real-time data and trend charts showing resource consump-

Figure 1. Productivity Portlet with System Heartbeat and Total Queries Per Hour and Canary Response Times Portlet.

tion over any time duration contained in the collections.

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Heres a look at each available Teradata Management Portlet:
Portlet User DBA or Manager Portlet Description or Function Alerts services such as logging, email notification, SNMP traps, and running BTEQ scripts or custom programs are configured by the administrator, as well as the alerts triggers and actions. Use to monitor alerts over different periods of time. Analyze problem queries by viewing completed queries that exceeded the thresholds you set. Users can view individual queries of interest as a line graph over time and against a variety of metrics. The Snapshot tab displays query data at any point in time. View general information about a query, inspect a query as a line graph using the date-range slider and time marker, or set a date and time in the rewind tool bar. View information about queries running in a Teradata Database system to quickly spot problem queries. Users can analyze and decide whether or not a query is important, useful, and well written. After identifying a problem query, correct it by changing the priority or workload, releasing the query, or aborting the query or session. Filter queries in all session views or set thresholds for any column when the threshold is exceeded. Helps user determine types of utilities that are running most frequently on the system and then set utility limits. Manager or DBA Monitor physical and virtual resources to locate over- or under-utilized resources. Isolate performance or system issues based on CPU and other systems resources. Analyze resource usage trends on one or more Teradata Databases. Graphs trends according to metrics, such as CPU, memory, and throughput, within a specified time range. Refreshes information every 60 seconds. Analyze resource usage trends on a Teradata Database system. Displays a graph for a specific time range with time on the horizontal axis and metric values on the vertical axis. The timerange buttons on the toolbar allow you to select one- or three-month periods. Each graph point represents the value collected for selected metric during preceding one-hour period. Identify daily or weekly periods when a system is either over- or under-utilized. Determine when to schedule resource-intensive jobs with minimal impact to other users. Capacity Heatmap DBA or Manager Manager or DBA Analyze resource usage trends on a Teradata Database system. Monitor current resource-use statistics and compare them to statistics collected during the same period one or more weeks in the past. They can also determine if you are maximizing the utilization of your Teradata Database. Analyze performance trends and unusual system loads over 24- or 48-hour periods. Compare current performance with average performance measured across one or more weeks of historical data. Monitor and compare the productivity of multiple Teradata Database systems. Monitor Teradata Database disk space usage (database perm space, temp space, and spool space) and reallocate permanent disk space from one database to another. View the lock data, such as transaction, session, and lock object identifiers, as well as global deadlocks. Helps user determine whether or not system performance has been degraded by a database lock.

Alerting

Query Spotlight

DBA or BI User

Query Monitor

DBA or BI User

Node Resources

Metrics Analysis

Manager or DBA

Metrics Graph

Manager or DBA

Todays Statistics

Productivity

Manager or DBA

Space Usage

DBA

Lock Viewer

DBA

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Alert Setup Portlet The Alert Setup portlet, which is targeted for the DBA, allows the DBA to add alerts and set rules to trigger alerts and perform any of these actions in response to alerts: > Write to the alert log. > Send email notifications. > Send SNMP notifications. > Run BTEQ scripts. > Run programs. Alert Viewer Portlet The Alert Viewer portlet enables either a DBA or manager to view predefined threshold alerts defined for the system. It displays detailed information about what triggered the alert, the source of the alert, and any relevant messages. Users can filter the alerts by severity, time period, type, or name. Alert information is updated every 30 seconds. Query Spotlight Portlet The Query Spotlight portlet allows the DBA or the BI user to analyze problem queries by viewing completed queries that exceeded the thresholds you set. Users can view individual queries of interest as a line graph over time and against a variety of metrics. The Snapshot tab displays the query data at any point in time. Use Query Spotlight to view general information about a query, inspect a query as a line graph using the date-range slider and time marker, or set a date and time in the rewind toolbar. Node Resources Portlet The Node Resources portlet for the database manager or the DBA allows them to monitor physical and virtual resources to locate over- or under-utilized resources and isolate performance or system issues based on CPU and other system resources. Metrics Analysis Portlet The Metrics Analysis portlet allows the database manager and the DBA to analyze resource usage trends on one or more Teradata Databases. Trends are graphed according to metrics such as CPU, memory, and throughput, within a specified time range. The information is refreshed every 60 seconds. The portlet displays a graph with time on the horizontal axis, metric values on the vertical axis, and a different color for each metric sparkline. Sparklines show the average metric values as a line and have enhanced interactive features, such as performance envelopes and information balloons that show the actual, minimum, and maximum metric values. The time-range buttons allow you to monitor current usage within the past hour or view usage trends over the past day, week, month, three months, or six months.
Figure 2. Alert Viewer Portlet.

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Lock Viewer Portlet The Lock Viewer portlet allows DBAs to view the lock data, such as transaction identifiers, session identifiers, lock object identifiers, and global deadlocks. It helps determine whether system performance has been degraded by database locks and allows you to locate locks in a specific database, in a specific time frame, caused by a specific user, or locks that are blocking a specific user. Metrics Graph Portlet Using this portlet, the database manager or the DBA can analyze resource usage trends on a Teradata Database system. The portlet displays a graph for a specific time range with time on the horizontal axis and metric values on the vertical axis. The time-range buttons on the toolbar allow you to select
Figure 3. Metrics Analysis Portlet.

one-month or three-month periods. Each point on the graph represents the value collected for the selected metric during the preceding one-hour period. The Metrics Graph portlet helps you identify daily or weekly periods when a system is either over-utilized or underutilized. You can use this information to determine when to schedule resourceintensive jobs with minimal impact to other users. Capacity Heatmap Portlet The Capacity Heatmap portlet allows you to analyze resource usage trends on a Teradata Database system. The portlet displays a grid with days on the horizontal axis and hours on the vertical axis. The

Todays Statistics Portlet The Today's Statistics portlet allows the database manager or DBA to monitor current resource-use statistics and compare them to statistics collected during the same period one or more weeks in the past. It allows you to determine whether or not you are maximizing the utilization from your Teradata Database system. Productivity Portlet The Productivity portlet allows database managers or DBAs to analyze performance trends and unusual system loads over a 24or 48-hour period. You can also compare

current performance with average performance measured across one or more weeks of historical data. And, you can monitor and compare the productivity of multiple Teradata Database systems by adding a Productivity portlet to the view for each system to be monitored. Space Usage Portlet The Space Usage portlet, which is targeted for the DBA, allows the user to monitor Teradata Database disk space usage (database perm space, temp space, and spool space) and reallocate permanent disk space from one database to another.

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time-range buttons on the toolbar allow you to select one-month or three-month periods. Each color-coded square represents an hour and provides a visual indication of the metric value during a one-hour period. The Capacity Heatmap portlet also helps you identify periods when a system is either over-utilized or under-utilized. You can use this information to schedule resource-intensive jobs with minimal impact to other users. Why Teradata? Teradata Corporation is the industry leader in data warehousing and has pioneered data analytics and data management. Teradata has a time-tested track record of providing complete automation and management for the largest and most complex data warehouses. Now Teradata is raising the bar on database management by offering the Teradata Management Portlets bundle for Teradata Database. Why should you choose Teradata? Teradata, the worlds largest company solely focused on enterprise data warehousing and analytic solutions, provides powerful solutions for companies of all sizes. Through innovation, consulting services, technology, and industryspecific applications, our customers are outpacing their competition with enterprise agility. For More Information For more detailed information about how Teradata Management Portlets can help you make smarter, faster decisions so you can grow your business, contact your Teradata representative or visit Teradata.com. For more technical details about the portlets, visit developer.teradata.com.

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