HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Customers that want to know about and deal with server performance issues before they impact user
productivity.
• PMP provides a concise overview of configuration anomalies that could impact performance, like faster
drives on slower controllers, NICs set to half-duplex, PCI cards concentrated on a single PCI bus, and
so forth.
• PMP provides early alerts of building performance bottleneck situations.
• PMP enables interactive and historical analysis of performance issues.
• PMP provides easy to understand recommendations for solving performance issues.
Customers that, because of budget constraints, cannot automatically replace servers every three years.
• PMP provides detailed information on the subsystem that causes performance constraints, enabling
pinpointed upgrades to economically extend the useful life of a server.
• When economical upgrade possibilities are exhausted, PMP provides a summary report containing
both a performance profile (showing for each of the subsystems the percentage of time that performance
is out of spec) and a detailed server inventory for each subsystem.
Two PMP tools are available through HP SIM Optimize menu:
NOTE: These options are available only on a Windows system.
• Online Analysis Enables you to watch and analyze the real-time performance of a monitored server.
It provides an intuitive interface to detail the performance status and inventory of monitored servers,
processors, memory, storage, network connections, and host bus nodes for each server.
To access Online Analysis, select Optimize→HP Performance Management Pack→Online
Analysis.
or
From the All Systems collection page, select the monitored server by clicking its status icon in the PF
column.
To access help for this option, go to https://middle_tier:2381/pmp/help/Server_Status.htm,
where middle_tier is the name or IP address of the server that HP SIM and PMP are installed, or
access PMP directory\Program Files\HP\Performance Management
Pack\htm\help\Server_Status.htm, where PMP directory is the PMP directory on the server
that PMP is installed.
• Offline Analysis Enables you to view recorded data sessions directly from the PMP repository and
license servers for PMP.
To access Offline Analysis, select Optimize→HP Performance Management Pack→Offline
Analysis.
To access help for this option, go to https://middle_tier:2381/pmptools/help/Offline Analysis.htm,
where middle_tier is the name or IP address of the server on which HP SIM and PMP are installed,
or access PMP directory\Program Files\HP\HP Performance Management
Pack\PMPTools\htm\help\Offline Analysis.htm, where PMP directory is the PMP
directory on the server on which PMP is installed.
See http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/valuepack/pmp/index.html for
more information about PMP and access to documentation.
Related topics
• PMP administrative options
• PMP reporting options
Replicate Agent Settings
Replicate Agent Settings is a source system configuration that can, during task setup, be edited and copied
to a target system or group of systems .
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