HP-UX Workload Manager User's Guide

Advanced WLM usage: Using performance metrics
Configuring WLM for metric-based SLOs
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The goal keyword is optional. If neither the goal nor cpushares
keyword is specified, the SLO is allocated CPU resources according to its
mincpu setting. For information on setting mincpu, see “Specifying the
lower and upper bound requests on CPU resources (optional)” on
page 196.
You cannot specify both a goal statement and a cpushares statement in
the same SLO. Similarly, you cannot have a workload group with one
SLO that has a goal statement and another SLO that has a cpushares
statement that includes more.
Specify a metric goal as follows:
goal = metric met relation value;
where
met Is a text string (no longer than 255 characters) naming
the metric to be used for the SLO. The met string must
also be specified in a tune structure that indicates the
path to your data collector executable that provides the
metric. met cannot contain the slash character (/) or
start with an underscore (_). For information on tune
structures, see “Tuning the metrics and the SLOs” on
page 210.
relation. <. If met is supposed to be less than
value.
>. If met is supposed to be greater than
value.
value Is a numeric goal value, either integer (greater than or
equal to 1) or floating-point number, not expressed in
exponential notation.
For example, here is a performance goal statement:
goal = metric response_time < 3.0;