HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Routine Management Tasks

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go to http://www.openview.hp.com.
GlancePlus and GlancePlus Pak
HP GlancePlus 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 combines the HP GlancePlus and HP MeasureWare products.
This 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.
HP MeasureWare Agent is a comprehensive long-term performance tool which collects,
alarms on, and manages system performance information as well as metrics from other
sources such as database probes. It provides data and alarms for PerfView, HP
OpenView NNM or IT/Operations as well as third-party products.
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 OpenView
IT/Operations and HP Network Node Manager.
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 via 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.”
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