> #### Implementing business requirements with Fathom Management at XYZ Corporation

> The XYZ Corporation's system administrator has customized his Fathom resource monitoring capabilities and frequently consults his system's data as monitored by Fathom. For example, this administrator:

> - Set up the Trend performance data option for all monitored resources, including AppServer brokers. This feature helps him review real time and historical data available for reports, most noteworthy in this case the Performance and Profile reports.
> - Establish rules from the Library menu option as default rules for all AppServer broker resources for their performance criteria value: Average Procedure Duration High, Queued Request Percent High, Rejected Request Percent High, and Agent (Server) Unavailable. Establishing these rules, with threshold values that are unique to this system environment, is key because of the heavy network- and AppServer-related processing demands. He also sets up alert and actions for each of these rules.
> - Consults the Broker Performance View and Servers Performance View for AppServer broker and server performance statistics frequently throughout the work day for a real- time picture of broker and server activity levels.
> - Set up his AppServer brokers and servers on his Customized My Collections Home page, along with other vital system operations such as memory and CPU consumption, so he can quickly reference this data. Among other standard viewlets, he displays resources running with alerts, active monitoring plans, and running reports viewlet options. Also, he monitors all those viewlets related to his AppServer brokers.
> - Reviews his System Activity report frequently throughout the work day as it displays real-time system performance and resource usage details.
> - Reviews his Database Summary report frequently throughout the work day as it displays real-time system performance and resource usage details.
> - Consults the AppServer-related log files for which he has set up monitors: AppServer broker log file and the AppServer servers log file.

> He regularly reviews these pieces of data as they can provide him clues about his system's application performance.

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