After looking at the Event Viewer and the data captured from the Performance Monitor for a perfectly working machine, an experienced administrator might need at least a few minutes to diagnose a no problem situation. This example illustrates the difference between providing data and information. A large percentage of the management tools available today provide administrators with data, not information. The administrator must use the data and probe the troubled machine to establish the problem. For example, a Dell machine is running out of paging space.
Logical disks have application queuing and are probably performing poorly.
Excessive paging is occurring on all paging spaces. To prevent system administrators from wasting time to relieve all three symptoms, the management tools would have to correlate this information to understand the real problem that must be resolved. But the administrator has had to send the data across the network to the TEC server for intelligent diagnosis. If a correctable solution were discovered, the administrator would then trigger an action from the TEC server back to the troubled machine. It would be more useful to diagnose the problem automatically on the local machine.