HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
General System Administration
Utilization Provider
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Utilization Provider
The Utilization Provider version A.01.00 is a lightweight daemon (utild) that records
system-utilization data on a 5-minute interval. System-utilization data includes CPU,
memory, disk, and network. This product also includes a WBEM provider for access to
the utilization data.
Summary of Change
Utilization Provider is new with the HP-UX 11i December 2005 release. The
UtilProvider bundle contains the Utilization Provider software and the utild (1M)
manpage.
Impact
When Utilization Provider is installed it launches the utild daemon, which consumes
minimal CPU, memory, and disk resources. Only 30 days of utilization data are kept in
data files in /var/adm/util. The total disk space used by these files should not exceed
5MB in the default utild installation.
The Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software, available via special
media release in December 2005, relies on the Utilization Provider. Removing
Utilization Provider will prevent the VSE Management Software from functioning
properly.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
The utild process wakes up every 5 minutes and discovers and records the four metrics
(CPU, memory, disk, and network). This discovery has minimal impact on system
performance.
Documentation
For further information, refer to the utild (1M) manpage, as well as the WBEM schema
(MOF files), which are located in /opt/util/mof.
Obsolescence
None