Strobe & Strobe integration

1. ConicIT & Compuware’s Strobe
synergistic solution
Automatic detection and analysis
of applications problems

2. The Problems that we solve
• Catching and analysis of applications bugs
can be hard:
– How to detect problems at early stage
– How to run Strobe powerful analytic tool
exactly when the problem exists
– What if the problem appears at night? Who
will run Strobe analysis?
– Does high CPU necessary means application
problem? How to detect that there’s a real
problems?

3. The Vision
Automatic detection of applications
problems, which triggers automatic
deep investigation of the application.

4. The Building Blocks - I
ConicIT
• Automatic detection and alerts about anomalies
that reflects mainframe performance problems
• Connects to your mainframe’s performance
monitors once a minute and reading thousands
of performance metrics
• Presents all the data and graphs in a friendly
and aggregated format on your web-browser
• Using machine learning to study the normal
behavior of your mainframe, and to
automatically detects anomalies and problems
and to alert about them.

5. ConicIT recognizes
that CPU of
10.98% for
PSYCICS7 started-
task is too high
compared to the
expected range for
that time (the
green stripe).
ConicIT
automatically
starts Strobe to
investigate the
anomaly of the
job’s CPU.

6. The Building Blocks - II
Compuware Strobe
• Deep profiling and investigation of
performance problems
• Runs on specific job-name, and possibly
focusing on specific transactions
• Quickly pinpoint the source of application
inefficiencies.
• Allows to improve user code efficiency,
transaction response time and
throughput.

7. The integrated solution
• ConicIT automatically detects performance
problems and anomalies
• ConicIT Activate strobe on the relevant job
and transaction, just on time, 24/7
• Strobe is investigating the job and create
reports that gives you all required information
to figure the root cause
• Strobe is sending you an email, with link to
the result of the investigation

8. The integrated solution
ConicIT detects
performance anomaly:
CPU above the expected
(green) range
Strobe investigates and
analyzes the application
The user receives a mail
with link to Strobe’s
investigation result

9. Use cases
• Example scenarios in which ConicIT runs
Strobe investigation automatically
• CPU of CICS is higher than expected
• Transaction rates of CICS is higher than expected
• Transaction rates of CICS is lower than expected
• CPU or IO of a Started task is higher than expected
• CPU of any job is too high
• Specific transaction CPU, response-time, or
transaction-rate is higher than expected
• The rate of specific transaction is lower than
expected

10. Benefits
• Early detection of performance
problems
• Strobe will run only when a problem is
reliably recognized, and every time it
happens
• Strobe investigation will run exactly
when the problem exists and not too
late
• 24/7 automatic detection and analysis.
Results will wait for your inspection