System resource utilization by SM2

To perform monitoring, SM2 must use the resources of the system to be monitored. This section provides an overview of SM2 resources requirements and information on assessing and restricting the induced system utilization.

With regard to system utilization, only the following basic resources are considered:

• external storage

• CPU

• main memory

During monitoring, only the resources utilized by the monitoring task are analyzed (i.e. without considering any parallel SM2 user programs), this being the way SM2 is most usually operated.