HP XPWatch and HP XPSketch Reference Guide

Contents
1 Introduction to HP XPWatch.........................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
HP XPWatch environment...........................................................................................................7
Functional representation...........................................................................................................7
2 Installing HP XPWatch.................................................................................8
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................8
Installing HP XPWatch...............................................................................................................8
Accessing HP XPWatch.............................................................................................................9
Interactive mode..................................................................................................................9
CLI mode..........................................................................................................................10
Removing HP XPWatch............................................................................................................10
Components..........................................................................................................................11
3 Working with HP XPWatch menus and commands........................................15
Commands............................................................................................................................15
Executing commands in Interactive mode..............................................................................15
Executing commands in CLI mode........................................................................................17
Menus...................................................................................................................................19
Array menu.......................................................................................................................19
Sync/Async Metrics...........................................................................................................20
Viewing Sync/Async metrics...........................................................................................21
Clearing P-VOL or S-VOL selection...................................................................................22
CA Journal Metrics.............................................................................................................22
Viewing CA Journal metrics............................................................................................23
Clearing CTG selection..................................................................................................23
Host Group Metrics............................................................................................................23
Viewing Host Group Metrics...........................................................................................24
Host Groups.................................................................................................................24
Viewing Host Groups................................................................................................25
Selecting Host Groups...............................................................................................25
Clearing Host Groups...............................................................................................27
Nickname menu............................................................................................................27
Assigning nicknames................................................................................................28
Renaming nicknames................................................................................................29
Deleting nicknames...................................................................................................30
Port menu.....................................................................................................................31
Viewing Port menu....................................................................................................32
Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme.......................................................................32
Viewing Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme......................................................32
RAID Group menu.........................................................................................................33
Viewing RAID Group menu........................................................................................34
LDEV menu...................................................................................................................34
Viewing LDEV menu..................................................................................................34
Settings menu...............................................................................................................35
Menu settings..........................................................................................................35
Performance data collection settings............................................................................35
4 Viewing performance metrics in HP XPWatch...............................................37
Collecting performance metrics.................................................................................................37
Understanding performance metrics..........................................................................................39
Sync/Async Metrics...........................................................................................................40
P-VOL S-VOL Configuration.............................................................................................40
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