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

SD-UX Software Structure...........................................................................................179
Location of Software....................................................................................................181
SD-UX Tasks................................................................................................................181
Adding Software....................................................................................................182
Installing Protected Software............................................................................183
Listing Software.....................................................................................................184
Removing Software................................................................................................185
SD-UX Roles................................................................................................................185
Software Package Builder (SPB)........................................................................................186
Setting up a Network Host (Building a Depot)................................................................187
Copying Software From a Depot with the SD User Interface.....................................187
Copying Software From DVD.....................................................................................187
Copying Software From Tape......................................................................................188
More Examples ...........................................................................................................188
About Patches...................................................................................................................188
Recommended Patches - Extension Software..............................................................189
Installing Extension Software.................................................................................189
Removing Patches.......................................................................................................189
6 Managing System Performance................................................................................................191
Performance Bottlenecks...................................................................................................191
Guidelines.........................................................................................................................192
Resource Hogs.............................................................................................................193
Measuring Performance....................................................................................................194
Checking Disk Load with sar and iostat.....................................................................194
Checking NFS Server/Client Block Size......................................................................194
Modify NFS Server/Client Block Size..........................................................................195
Checking for Asynchronous Writes............................................................................195
Checking for Server Overload with nfsstat -rc............................................................196
Measuring Memory Usage with vmstat......................................................................196
Checking for Socket Overflows with netstat -s...........................................................196
Checking for Network Overload with netstat -i.........................................................197
Making Changes...............................................................................................................197
Increasing the Number of nfsd Daemons...................................................................197
Defragmenting an HFS File System............................................................................198
Defragmenting a JFS File System................................................................................199
To defragment a JFS file system using HP SMH....................................................199
To defragment a JFS file system using fsadm .......................................................199
Daily Defragmentation ..........................................................................................199
Configurable Kernel Parameters.................................................................................199
Configuring Kernel Tunable Parameters Using HP SMH.....................................200
Other Performance Management Tools............................................................................200
HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH)........................................................201
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