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This section includes the following topics:
- About Precise for SAP
- About Precise for SAP components
- How Precise for SAP works
- Where to get more information
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Precise for SAP offers a wide range of data presentations that provide IT professionals with the information necessary to manage SAP client/server systems. Precise for SAP analyzes SAP system performance and applications and helps you to effectively direct resources and enhance system use.
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The PMDB is the repository of the Precise for SAP suite, which stores application performance data for long-term analysis and trending reports. The data collected by the Precise product suite. For more information, see the Administration Guide or AdminPoint Online Help.
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Precise for SAP employs a client/server architecture to provide high performance database monitoring and tuning. Precise for SAP consists of the following components:
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- Summarizes data by time slices.
- Manages the dimension tables (substituting identifiers by keys and adding new dimension records if they don't exist).
- Transforms the union dialog steps into business transactions.
- Calculates SLA values for business transactions.
- Determines the planned downtime status for each availability time slice.
- Converts the time to FocalPoint GMT time.
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Precise for SAP stores a complete history of your SAP system activity in the PMDB. This provides you with a performance tracking tool. It gives you the ability to assess SAP system performance trends and analyze changes in SAP system activities over long periods of time. This data is vital for identifying patterns in resource consumption and predicting future resource consumption in your SAP system.
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The Precise for SAP Collector agents run from a remote dedicated server. This server connects to your systems application servers using a low overhead, accurate, and comprehensive sampling technology (no software components are installed on your application server machines). The server collects performance and availability data from your SAP system. It is then analyzed and summarized. You can later access this data using the user interface to perform long-term evaluations of performance.
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More information on Precise, its products, technical notes, and so on, can be found in the Release Notes document for this version.
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