Resource Governor Administrator's and User's Manual

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This manual describes how to administer Resource Governor. It provides instructions for configuring Resource Governor's usage monitoring facility and explains how to delete extraneous data from the Resource Governor Usage Monitoring and administrative tables. It presents features such as Rule Parameters, Build Rules, and the Business Rule Builder, and describes the various Resource Governor reports and how to access them. It is intended for anyone who needs to monitor, govern, and report from multiple servers in a distributed data warehouse environment.

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How This Manual Is Organized

This manual includes the following chapters:

Chapter/Appendix

Contents

1

What Is Resource Governor?

Introduces Resource Governor and describes its ability to analyze site activity and contribute to performance analysis. Provides an introduction to Resource Governor's usage monitoring, rule parameters, rule building, and reporting features.

2

Configuring and Administering Resource Management

Describes how to configure and administer Resource Management from the Web Console.

3

Configuring a Central Relational Repository Model

Describes how to configure Many-to-one monitoring, and Enterprise Monitoring, which allows all of the Resource Governor servers in your enterprise to store monitored data in the same relational repository.

4

Creating Business Rules

Explains how Resource Governor's Business Rule Builder uses Production Rule Language (PRL) to customize rules that set limits on database queries.

5

Resource Governor Administration

Describes how to configure and administer Resource Governor, including usage monitoring, rule parameters, rule building, and deleting data.

6

Resource Governor Reports

Describes the different categories of Resource Governor reports, the individual reports within these categories, and the process for displaying reports.

7

Getting Help

Describes Resource Governor’s online help and documentation options.

A

Administrative Usage Monitoring Tables Column Descriptions

Summarizes the fields in the Resource Analyzer administrative (system) and Usage Monitoring databases.

B

Using DDL Statements to Create the Internal Tables

Explains how to use DDL statements to create the Resource Analyzer and Resource Governor internal tables.

C

Business Rule Language (BRL)

Describes how to customize rules and messages for a particular user or situation using a language called Business Rule Language (BRL).

Documentation Conventions

The following table describes the documentation conventions that are used in this manual.

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