HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

General System Administration
HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak
Chapter 5
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— Applications that consume performance data from OVPA now have the
option of communicating with OVPA using https datacomm. OpenView
Performance Manager (OVPM) 5.0 already has the ability to communicate
with OVPA using HTTPS. OpenView Reporter (OVR) 3.6 and OpenView
Performance Insight (OVPI) 5.1 can only communicate using http datacomm.
There are plans to enhance both of these products in future to take
advantage of the https communication capability.
What is CODA?
CODA is a daemon that handles data communication (both HTTP and
HTTPS) when delivered as part of OVPA. It also handles communication
with perfalarm, the alarm management daemon. CODA, when delivered as
part of OV Operations Agent, provides lightweight system performance
collection and Smart Plug-ins (SPI) support.
OVPA shares the “Black Box Communication” functionality with OV
Operations, including the ovbbccb daemon that is started with and used by
CODA. Switching to this newer data communication facility makes
communication easier across firewalls (see the HP OpenView Performance
Agent Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX Systems at
/opt/perf/paperdocs/ovpa/C/ovpainst.pdf for details).
— The DCE-based alarm management daemon, alarmgen, has been replaced
by the HTTP-based perfalarm. Perfalarm is the preferred daemon to send
alarms to OVO servers. alarmgen is still supported for sending alarms to
OVPM 3.x (Perfview). Refer to Chapter 2 of the Installation and
Configuration Guide for details on how to set up alarmgen as default alarm
management daemon.
— This release includes the following new metrics:
— GBL_SWAP_SPACE_AVAIL
— GBL_STATTIME
— GBL_MEM_PAGEIN_RATE
— The scaling for the following metrics has been changed from KB to MB:
— GBL_MEM_AVAIL
— GBL_MEM_PHYS
This release also provides fixes to major problems and change requests. For information,
see the Release Notes for HP-UX 11iv1 available at
http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/.
Impact
Refer to the Release Notes of each product (GlancePlus and OpenView Performance
Agent) in /opt/perf/ReleaseNotes/, or at the following site:
http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.