HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

General System Administration

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX

Chapter 4

• When managing a remote partitionable complex, the performance degrades when

the connection traverses long network distances, e.g. managing a partitionable

complex in California from a system in New York. Furthermore, when managing a

remote system, performance can be improved by connecting to an nPartition

Provider on the remote system, rather than connecting directly to the system's

service processor.

• A noticeable delay may occur at startup, and the first time that each Partition

Manager view is displayed. This is due to the initial compilation of the Java Server

Pages by the HP-UX Tomcat-based Servlet Engine. This compilation occurs the first

time that a view is displayed after the Servlet Engine is started or restarted. Once a

given view has been displayed, subsequent displays of that view will be significantly

faster.

• When managing a remote system, possible performance improvements can be

obtained by running the Web browser on the local system, instead of running the

browser remotely to a local X Server.

• The nPartition provider maintains a cache of information about systems being

managed. This cache is cleared when the nPartition Provider is unloaded by the CIM

server. Performance may be reduced when managing a system for the first time, or

immediately after the CIM server has been restarted. Subsequent management

sessions of the same system will be faster.

Documentation

The principal documentation for Partition Manager is HTML-based online help. The

online help is accessed through context-sensitive help links in Partition Manager, and

can also be viewed outside of Partition Manager through a Web browser.

The parmgr command (which can be used to start or stop Partition Manager) is

documented in the parmgr (1M) manpage that is included with the product. Both

English and Japanese versions of the manpage are included.

The latest release of Partition Manager can be downloaded for free from the HP Web at

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumbe

r=ParMgr.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX

HP WBEM Services for HP-UX (http://www.dmtf.org/) is a platform- and

resource-independent Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that

defines both a common model (i.e., description) and protocol (i.e., interface) for

monitoring and controlling a diverse set of resources. The HP WBEM Services for

HP-UX product is the HP-UX implementation of the DMTF WBEM standard.