HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes

General System Administration
GlancePlus Pak
Chapter 5
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GlancePlus Pak
GlancePlus Pak, version C.04.50, integrates the GlancePlus and HP OpenView
Performance Agent for HP-UX (OVPA) products into a single tool to help you better
manage the performance and availability of your servers.
Summary of Change
GlancePlus Pak version C.04.50 includes the following enhancements:
• For both OVPA and GlancePlus:
Dependency of ttd to have rpcbind or portmap running has been eliminated and
ttd has been modified to function independently of rpcbind or portmap.
•For OVPA:
— This release of OVPA supports both HTTP and HTTPS-based single port
communication. Using HTTPS enables secure communication. OVPA continues
to support existing DCE-based communication. You can configure OVPA to use
either DCE-based or HTTP(S)-based data communication.
For more details refer to Chapter 2 of the HP OpenView Performance Agent
Installation and Configuration Guide for HP-UX Systems, provided as
ovpainst.pdf in /opt/perf/paperdocs/ovpa/C/.
— HTTPS-based secure communication is supported only in the OpenView
Operations (OVO) 8.x environment.
— HTTP(S) data communication is supported using CODA, 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 for details).
— 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.
— The DCE-based alarm management daemon, alarmgen, has been replaced by
the HTTP-based perfalarm, which is the preferred daemon to send alarms to
OVO servers. The alarmgen daemon is still supported for sending alarms to
OVPM 3.x (Perfview).
Refer to the HP OpenView Performance Agent Installation and Configuration
Guide for HP-UX Systems for details on how to set up alarmgen as default alarm
management deamon.
— This release also includes the following new metrics: