The Analyzer is a tool for capacity monitoring and planing. The concepts are:
Data recording
The resource consumption in the landscape is recorded.
Locally on every server of the landscape where the Performance Collector daemon is installed and started. For more information about the Performance Collector, see the Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions 5.2.1 Installation Guide.
Resource consumption, CPU and Memory usage, of every running SRM project. For more information, see the Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions 5.2.1 Installation Guide.
Data import
A job is scheduled for daily execution in the N1 AA Manager. The resource consumption data is imported from every server in the landscape into the database.
Data analysis
The N1 AA Analyzer provides an engine for the data analysis of the data. This analysis is based on Multi-Dimensional Expressions (MDX) Queries. There are predefined queries delivered along with N1 AA. You can also write your own queries.