Teradata Active System Management - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

Database Introduction

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
VMware
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2023-09-27
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™
Teradata Active System Management (TASM) is a set of products, including system tables and logs, that interact with each other and a common data source. It facilitates automation in the following system management areas:
  • Workload management
  • Performance tuning
  • Capacity planning
  • Performance monitoring

TASM can improve and optimize your workload management and performance, improve response times, and ensure more consistent response times for critical work, thereby reducing DBA effort.

Some Key TASM Products and Components

The following table describes some key products and components of TASM.

Product / Component Description
Teradata Viewpoint Enables users to do the following:
  • Create rules for filtering, throttling, and defining classes of queries (workload definitions)
  • Create events to monitor system resources
Open APIs SQL interface to PMPC through User-Defined Functions (UDFs) and external stored procedures invoked from any application.

See Workload Management Application Programming Interface.

Query Bands Set of name-value pairs defined by user or middle-tier application for tagging session or transactions with an ID through an SQL interface.

For specific information on Query Bands, see Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Data Definition Language Detailed Topics, B035-1184 and Teradata Vantage™ - Database Administration, B035-1093.

Resource Usage Monitor Data collection subsystem that includes TASM-related data collection. See Resource Usage Monitoring.