HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor XP Software user guide (T1789-96025, October 2007)

4. Restart PA XP hostagent ser vices. For example, <install directory>:\Program
Files\Hewlett-Packard\sanmgr\hostagent\sbin> hastart.bat
5. On the management station launch Performance Advisor XP and click on the Confi guration tab.
Select Host Information tab and click on Request Info followed by Submit.
6. Once the Status column in the Host Information screen is updated with the status Received,click
on the Data Collection Confi guration tab. All the command devices on which GUID is created are
appended with (GUID),asshowninCommand Device file name appended with (GUID).
Figure 83 Command Device file name appended with (GUID)
7. All the PA Configuration and Per formance Data Collection through the command device file names
labeled with “(GUID)” string uses \\?\Volume {GUID}.
NOTE:
The follo
wing are important notes for accurate functioning of the Configuration and Performance Data
Collecti
on Pre-requisites for Windows Operating System:
• The Command Device on which G UID is created needs to be mounted always, otherwise Performance
Advisor XP configuration and performance data collection may fail.
• When you
create a GUID, you must request for the updated host information through the Host
Inform
ation screen otherwise the Performance Advisor XP configuration a nd performance data
collec
tion may fail.
• If you delete a GUID partition and recreate it, then you must request for updated host information
through the Host Information Performance Advisor X P configuration and performance data collection
may fail.
• If GUI
D creation is successful and the command device is bad then Performance Advisor XP
configuration and performance data collection may fail.
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