HP XP7 PA Software User Guide

Stopping performance data collection schedules....................................................................69
Restarting performance data collection schedules...................................................................69
Deleting performance data collection schedules.....................................................................70
Setting the java heap size values.........................................................................................70
Setting the heap size for management station...................................................................70
Setting the heap size values for Windows and Unix host agents..........................................71
5 Configuring common settings for HP XP7 Performance Advisor.......................72
Introduction............................................................................................................................72
Configuring email and SNMP settings.......................................................................................73
Providing user-friendly names for XP and XP7 disk arrays............................................................76
Registering the XP or XP7 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP7 Performance Advisor......................77
Setting the severity level for events............................................................................................78
Setting time zone for management station..................................................................................79
Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time.................................................................79
Receiving email notifications when HP XP7 Performance Advisor services fail..................................80
Managing custom groups........................................................................................................83
Creating custom groups......................................................................................................84
Using custom group filters...............................................................................................85
Significance of creating custom groups.................................................................................85
Viewing custom group configurations....................................................................................86
Modifying custom groups....................................................................................................88
Editing custom groups....................................................................................................88
Deleting custom groups..................................................................................................89
Managing fabricated LDEV records...........................................................................................89
Viewing Data Grid Update screen........................................................................................89
Querying for fabricated LDEV records...................................................................................90
Modifying fabricated LDEV records......................................................................................91
Editing fabricated LDEV records......................................................................................91
Deleting fabricated LDEV records....................................................................................92
Using template..................................................................................................................92
Managing HP XP7 Performance Advisor user profiles..................................................................93
Creating and editing user profiles........................................................................................93
Creating a user record...................................................................................................94
Changing password......................................................................................................94
Deleting a user record...................................................................................................94
Viewing group properties....................................................................................................95
6 Monitoring performance of XP and XP7 disk arrays......................................96
Introduction............................................................................................................................96
Configuring dashboard threshold settings..................................................................................98
Specifying the top 20 consumers.......................................................................................101
Dashboard threshold metrics..................................................................................................102
Viewing dashboard..............................................................................................................105
XP/XP7array health.........................................................................................................106
Dashboard statistics.........................................................................................................107
Component levels in the Statistics section........................................................................109
Dashboard statistics and threshold metrics......................................................................110
Dashboard busiest consumers............................................................................................112
Dashboard charts............................................................................................................114
High watermark in dashboard charts..................................................................................115
7 Configuring alarms and managing events..................................................117
Introduction..........................................................................................................................117
Configuring alarms and viewing alarms history....................................................................117
Selecting components and metrics..........................................................................................119
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