ARMing SAS ® to Answer Your Questions
Fabian Robinson · 2006
With the advent of more complex and distributed systems, businesses and enterprises have not been able to truly characterize system and/or network consumption on a detailed scale such as a specific application or workload. Businesses were not able to answer the following questions easily (if at all): - Are transactions completing successfully? - Where are the bottlenecks? - What are my response times? - What are the applications doing with the information? - What servers are being used? - How is the application component performance? Several vendors (Tivoli, HP, SAS etc) united to create a vendor neutral open API called Application Response Measurement (ARM). ARM allowed capacity planners, business people and system administrators to answer the questions asked globally, but also at the application level by business need.