This video demonstrates how to use SysTrack Visualizers to assess the health and performance of an individual machine by analyzing user impact metrics, resource consumption trends, and CPU and memory utilization over time.
Video Transcript
Today we are looking at the performance of an individual machine and trying to see how that machine has been doing over a time period.
So the first place I'm going to go is our Visualizers. I'm going to go into our Desktop Visualizer so I can find that individual machine.
In this case, I'm looking at the desktops. I can see how many days something's been reviewed, how much active time the users have, the total production impact, and the quality time.
Any of these columns can be sorted just by clicking on the top, and I can see everybody with the highest quality times there. I can click on that again and see the reverse order as I go through this.
Since I'm looking for an individual machine, I'm going to come in here and filter this based upon a machine that I know has the letters "PCS1" in it.
This machine has been reviewed for 20 days. It has an active time of 17.2 hours per week. The total production impact is 2.3 hours, and the quality time is 86.4.
So I may want to look more and drill down deeper into that and start figuring out what it is that's affecting this machine.
I can come here and change the perspective to Production Impactful Details. That's going to show me that I have some CPU limitations and that I have some disk limitations.
I can control this graph by just clicking on any of these values. If I didn't want to see the system and event impacts anymore, I can click on that and turn it off, or click on it and turn it back on.
As I can see this, I also have these blue dots above these different columns. That means I can see the individual data for that column, and I can see the different times and what those impacts are.
So I know when this user has had impact to their environment.
I can go and look at these machines further and be able to understand what the capacity of that particular laptop or desktop is and what it is really consuming.
I can come into Computer Performance. This shows me all the different machines.
Again, I want to filter it based on that particular machine, and I can see that machine there.
I see that it has an average CPU and memory consumption.
All of our CPU numbers are calculated in what we call MIPS, Millions of Instructions per Second. This is a way that we can normalize processors and look at them based upon how many instructions they can actually perform.
An Intel i7 mid-range processor is about 15,000 MIPS, and I can compare all machines to that.
You can hover over any of these columns and you'll see that information displayed directly there.
Now I may want to include something different because not only do I want to see what the average CPU is, I want to see what the maximum CPU is.
So I can apply that, and I can see that this machine, if I was sizing it based upon the average, looks like it's really underutilized. But if I look at the maximum CPU, I can see that there are times when this machine actually is consuming more resources.
That is how I would look at the health of an individual machine, and I could look at it over a time period.