HP-UX 11i Version 2 May 2005 Release Notes

General System Administration

GlancePlus Pak

Chapter 5

GlancePlus Pak

GlancePlus Pak, version C.03.86, integrates the GlancePlus and HP OpenView

Performance Agent for HP-UX (OVPA) products into a single tool to help customers

better manage the performance and availability of their servers.

Summary of Change

This release includes the following enhancements:

• For both OVPA and GlancePlus:

—New parm file parameters have been added to take advantage of process

arguments and command strings (see the default /var/opt/perf/parm file for

more detailed information and examples):

—

javaarg

= true/false to collect java class or jar name processes

—

argv1

= first command argument [,]

—

cmd

= command name expression

— New metrics have been added to enable more precise system performance

analysis while maintaining low monitoring overhead.

•For GlancePlus:

— For Motif-mode gpm:

— Added the Disk Queue Graphs window, which displays a pie chart for each

disk device GlancePlus is monitoring.

— Added the Search List Dialog window, which is used to find a process in the

Process List window.

— Enabled the use of cursor Control keys for selection in all the List type

windows.

— Enabled mouse wheel scrolling in all windows for X-environments where

button2 scrolling is supported.

— For character-mode glance:

— Added the -aos command line option as an alternative to the

-adviser_only -syntax option.

Impact

Refer to the Release Notes of each product (GlancePlus and OpenView Performance

Agent) in /opt/perf/ReleaseNotes/, or at the following Web site:

http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.