MANAGER SETTINGS - CAPACITY PLANNING

To enable administrators to easily and effectively study the historical trends in performance and accurately assess future capacity requirements, the eG Reporter offers a dedicated Capacity Planning Reports category. By default, eG Reporter does not allow users to generate Capacity Planning reports. Clicking on the Capacity Planning subnode under the Manager Settings node of the SETTINGS tree structure will invoke the CAPACITY PLANNING section in the MANAGER SETTINGS page.

To enable the generation of this category of reports, do the following in the CAPACITY PLANNING section:

1. Reports generated using trend data can accurately reveal the past load and performance trends, using which future trends in load and usage can be determined, potential sizing inadequacies predicted, and the future capacity prudently planned. This trend data is typically computed by applying the Avg, Sum, Max, Min, and Percentile functions on the measure data. To enable the eG manager to compute the trend data by applying the aforesaid functions, set the Enable capacity computation by the eG manager flag to Yes. By default, this is set to No.

2. To enable capacity report generation, set the Enable capacity reports flag to Yes. If you do not want to generate any capacity planning reports, then, set this flag to No. If this flag is set to Yes and the Enable capacity computation by the eG manager flag to No, then the eG manager will not compute the Avg, Sum, Max, Min, and Percentile values of the measures, but you can still attempt to generate capacity planning reports. In this case, the Custom and System capacity planning reports, which rely solely on trend data, will not display any results. Also, the Cumulation, Correlation, and Prediction reports can be generated using raw measure data only and not the computed trend data. On the other hand, if both the flags are set to Yes, then all reports can be generated.

3. Finally, click the Update button.