HP XP7 PA Software User Guide

Scheduling configuration data collection
IMPORTANT: The schedule start time is set to the management station time where HP XP7
Performance Advisor is installed.
Prerequisites
For the set of prerequisites, see “Collecting configuration data” (page 52).
To schedule configuration data collection:
1. Click Monitoring+Array View in the left pane.
The Array View screen appears.
2. Click the Configuration Collection tab. The Configuration Collection table displays the list
of command device records for all the XP and the XP7 disk arrays that are monitored by
HP XP7 Performance Advisor.
3. Select the command device record corresponding to the XP/XP7 disk array for which
you want to collect the configuration data.
Alternatively, click an XP or an XP7 disk array icon displayed above the Configuration
Collection tab to view the corresponding set of records highlighted in the Configuration
Collection table. The existing set of records are automatically sorted to display the command
devices that belong to the selected XP or XP7 disk array at the beginning of the
Configuration Collection table.
4. Select Collection Period as Recurring.
“Configuration Data Collection” (page 54) shows scheduling configuration data collection
for 53036, which belongs to the P9500 disk array.
Figure 5 (page 55) shows scheduling configuration data collection for 10055, which
belongs to the XP7 disk array.
Figure 4 Configuration Data Collection
54 Collecting configuration and performance data