Barbara, You've got it exactly. I call each cp*interval an 'engine' and that is how I do all my normal reporting to management. When you get right down to it when they buy hardware, they buy it in engines, not as some "x percent of the box." Reporting to them in units they actually use just makes sense.
Of course, having said this, I do some reporting in MSU and even MIPS but that just because of contracts. I've managed to educate my management to the fact that they don't mean anything when we talk capacity. Jim Horne Barbara Nitz wrote: So, in a grafic showing the cpu seconds consumed, my 'capacity line' will be no.of.cps*10min for a ten-minute interval. And if CoD is used again, management can *see* where we cross that line because we had varied more processors online and how many cpu seconds were consumed beyond our 'normal' capacity. NOTICE: All information in and attached to the e-mail(s) below may be proprietary, confidential, privileged and otherwise protected from improper or erroneous disclosure. If you are not the sender's intended recipient, you are not authorized to intercept, read, print, retain, copy, forward, or disseminate this message. If you have erroneously received this communication, please notify the sender immediately by phone (704-758-1000) or by e-mail and destroy all copies of this message (electronic, paper, or otherwise). Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
