HP Caliper User's Guide

Once you have collected at least one set of performance data, click on the Generate
Advice button or toolbar choice. HP Caliper will analyze the data and open an
Advisor view with its advice.
Every time you make another collection run, re-run the analysis to get updated advice.
Getting Help
Several forms of online help are available in the GUI:
• “Getting started” help
Select Help→Help Contents and then choose Getting Started.
• Dynamic/context help
Select Help→Context-sensitive Help or use the F1 key. This help provides detailed
information specific to the view that currently has focus.
• Reference help
Select Help→Help Contents. This help contains indexed and searchable copies
of the HP Caliper User Guide, all of the context-sensitive help, the HP Caliper for
HP-UX Release Notes, the HP Caliper for Linux Release Notes, and the Intel processor
reference manuals.
• Tooltips
Every icon, action button, and page tab within the GUI includes a brief tooltip. As
your mouse hovers over one of these items, a short description of the item is
displayed in a popup window.
Starting the GUI
There are two distinct but similar versions of the GUI client:
• Native (local) GUI: this GUI client runs on the HP-UX or Linux Integrity server
that HP Caliper is running on
• Remote GUI: this GUI client runs on a Windows x86 or Linux x86 desktop system
There will be a difference in both the “look and feel” and the responsiveness of the
GUI, depending on your network configuration and which client you use.
For either method, you will need to choose a workspace directory for your session, or
let HP Caliper create one for you (named workspace). With the native (local) GUI,
HP Caliper will (by default) place workspace in the directory where you are running
HP Caliper. With the remote GUI, workspace will be created in your username folder
in the Documents and Settings folder.
Two subdirectories are created in the workspace directory:
54 Getting Started with the HP Caliper GUI