In order to be possible to correctly monitor the performance of the existing or future Company systems, to forecast their future evolution and identify possible bottlenecks, adequate capacity management processes must be defined and implemented at the Company.

Capacity Management represents a set of activities performed by the IT department and consists mainly in the following activities:

a. defining a set of performance parameters to be monitored for each major information system;

b. implement monitoring procedures for collecting data regarding the parameters above mentioned;

c. analyzing and interpreting of the results of monitoring;

d. support decisions related to upgrades and capacity increase.

These are further detailed in this policy.

The responsibility for the day-to-day management of the systems, identification and solving of current problems and performance tuning belongs directly to the respective system administrators.

The purpose of the capacity monitoring and analysis performed for these systems by the IT department addresses only their long-term evolution, identification of repetitive patterns, forecasting future evolution and development of models that could describe these evolutions in relation to forecasted workload levels and required performance parameters.