RMF MON III will report an estimated time until soft-capping will begin. This can also be monitored as an RMF exception condition so that you can set a threshold and take some action.
If RMF III has this capability others monitors may also have it. I would contact the monitor vendor and ask them directly. Installing a new monitor (and paying for a new monitor) could totally wipe out the value achieved by soft capping. >From your description it does appear that the Defined Capacity may be too >small for the workload in this LPAR. It is a tradeoff between providing the >required service levels and the financial savings that the throttling >provides. When the LPAR is capped by either the soft cap or LPAR Group >Capacity Limits the impact within the LPAR is controlled by how WLM has been >implemented in the LPAR. From a WLM management point of view it is the same as >being short on CPU resource (the CPU being the only resource that is actually >limited by the capping). The work with the highest IMPORTANCE levels is >impacted first. (In this context high WLM importance indicated low CPU >priority). -- Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. Consulting Expertise on Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, WLC, LPARs, IRD and LCS Software Seminars on IBM SW Pricing, LPARs, and IRD Voice: +1 414 332-3062 Web: www.sherkow.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
