HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)
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Possible Future Changes
Performance improvements are planned for Card OLAR code in the Peripherals
Devices area.
In the future, SAM is planning on obsoleting the following:
• Instruments section under the Peripheral Devices area - HP-IB instruments will
no longer be supported.
• Run SAM on Remote Systems area - The ServiceControl Manager product will be
handling multi-system management.
• The Process Management area
• The Routine Tasks area
• Backup and Recover - The fbackup and frecover commands will still be available
from the command line.
• Distributed Print Service
• Kernel Configuration - This will be replaced with a new tool
• Uninterrupted Power Supply section under the Peripheral Devices area
• In the Performance Monitors area, the following areas will be removed as SAM
provides no added value above the existing commands (listed in parenthesis):
— Disk and Terminal Activity (iostat)
— Inter-Process Communication Facility Status (ipcs)
— Process with the Highest CPU Usage (top)
— System Activity (sar)
— Virtual Memory Activity (vmstat)
Additional SAM Changes
The Guardian Service Processor was introduced for the N4000 mid-range servers with
the May 1999 Extension Pack and subsequently on all new servers. (See “Service
Processor (GSP or MP)” on page 67 in Chapter 3 for more information.) The new card has
a port for the system console, as well as optional ports that can be used to connect
terminals, modems, and Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS). SAM has been modified
to aid in the configuration of these optional ports.
SAM allows you to launch the Partition Manager (parmgr), the new system
administration tool that supports the initial and ongoing configuration of Superdome
systems. See “Partition Manager (parmgr)” on page 48 in Chapter 2 for details.
In this release, SAM allows selecting workstation kernel parameter sets to tune your
system for CAE/ME or EE applications. See “Workstation Tuned Kernel Parameters” on
page 76 in Chapter 3 for more information.