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 |
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Teradata Viewpoint | Enables users to do the following:
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Open APIs | SQL interface to PMPC through User-Defined Functions (UDFs) and external stored procedures invoked from any application. |
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. |