HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90023, September 2010)

• VantagePoint
• Network Management
• Security Management
For complete and current information on HP Operation Center products go to the
following website:http://www.operations.com.
HP GlancePlus Pak Software
HP GlancePlus Pak is a diagnostic performance tool which provides detailed immediate
performance information about your system. It has built-in bottleneck alarms and
zoom-in capabilities to make performance troubleshooting easier.
The HP GlancePlus Pak provides both detailed immediate diagnostic and long-term
analysis for performance data. These software products are available on multi-vendor
platforms as well as for HP-UX.
Kernel Resource Monitor (KRM)
The Kernel Resource Monitor is included with Event Monitoring Systems (EMS)
Hardware Monitors. The KRM checks HP-UX resources such as nproc (number of
processes) which are controlled by the kernel parameters. KRM continually checks the
actual usage of these resources. If the amount of the usage meets or exceeds a preset
value, you are notified by e-mail, console message, system log, or other means.
This can be useful for tuning the kernel parameters for your particular system and
avoiding panics and performance problems caused when usage of HP-UX resources
approaches too high a level.
The EMS Monitors can be integrated with applications responsible for maintaining
system availability, such as MC/ServiceGuard. If configured to do so, they can provide
event notification to system management applications such as HP Operations Manager
and HP Network Management Center.
The EMS Hardware Monitors use the same EMS framework as the EMS High
Availability (HA) monitors. The HA EMS monitors are a separate set of monitors
available at additional cost.
Some of the hardware monitors for fibre channel products write event information to
text logs read by a new Predictive scanner, emsscan, which in turn may send events
to the Response Center by way of the On-line Predictive.
The EMS Hardware Monitors (including the Kernel Resource Monitor) are distributed
on the Support Plus CD media and available to download from
http://software.hp.com.
Select “Enhancement Releases” and then “Support Tools for the HP 9000.”
For more information about Support Plus and EMS hardware monitors, see the
documentation on the Instant Information DVD and the BSC website: HP Event
Monitoring Service and HA Monitors Software .
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