HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software Installation Guide This document describes how to install and configure the HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software (P9000 Performance Advisor). This document is intended for users and HP service providers who have knowledge of the HP StorageWorks XP and P9000 disk arrays hardware, software, and storage systems. For the latest release information on this product, see the HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software Release Notes.
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Contents 1 Overview of P9000 Performance Advisor .............................................. 9 P9000 Performance Advisor resources ........................................................................................... 9 Installation work flow ................................................................................................................. 11 Upgrade work flow ...................................................................................................................
P9000 Performance Advisor post-installation steps .................................................................. Confirming the P9000 Performance Advisor services ............................................................... Verifying installed JRE version .............................................................................................. Configuring P9000 Performance Advisor related settings ......................................................... Launching P9000 Performance Advisor .....
Upgrading the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents ............................................................... 115 Verifying the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents upgrade ..................................................... 116 10 Modifying or repairing P9000 Performance Advisor ......................... 117 11 Removing P9000 Performance Advisor ........................................... 121 Removing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent .......................................................
Figures 1 P9000 Performance Advisor setup ............................................................................. 10 2 P9000 Performance Advisor installation work flow ...................................................... 11 3 P9000 Performance Advisor upgrade work flow ......................................................... 13 4 Sample xpinfo -i output for Windows host agent ......................................................... 41 5 Sample xpinfo -i output for UNIX host agent .................
Tables 1 P9000 Performance Advisor utilities .......................................................................... 12 2 HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist ........ 16 3 Large XP and P9000 disk array configurations ............................................................ 21 4 Default and non-default ports .................................................................................... 31 5 Recommended free space ......................................
1 Overview of P9000 Performance Advisor The HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software (P9000 Performance Advisor) is a web-based application that collects, monitors, and displays the performance of your XP and P9000 disk arrays.
Figure 1 P9000 Performance Advisor setup . Additionally, the P9000 Performance Advisor also provides P9000Watch, P9000Sketch, and P9000Info. For a brief description of these tools, see Table 1 on page 12. IMPORTANT: The P9000Watch, P9000Sketch, and P9000Info were called XPWatch, XPSketch, and XPInfo in the pre-5.0 versions. Installation work flow In a typical installation, you need to install P9000 Performance Advisor on the management station followed by the host agents on the respective hosts.
“Installation work flow” on page 11 illustrates the P9000 Performance Advisor installation work flow. Figure 2 P9000 Performance Advisor installation work flow . In “Installation work flow” on page 11, the CLUI, P9000Watch, P9000Sketch, and P9000Info are additional utilities provided with P9000 Performance Advisor.
description of these utilities. The HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software Installation Guide covers only the end-to-end installation and upgrade of the P9000 Performance Advisor, and host agents. For information on the installation and use of the CLUI, P9000Watch, and P9000Sketch, see the respective documentation. For document download location, see “Related information” on page 129.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Verify that P9000 Performance Advisor services have started and you are able to login using your credentials. Verify that the License Status section displays the same license information for the monitored disk arrays as was displayed before the upgrade. If any of the existing licenses had expired before the upgrade was initiated, generate and add new licenses in P9000 Performance Advisor to continue monitoring those disk arrays.
Overview of P9000 Performance Advisor
2 Understanding the P9000 Performance Advisor installation prerequisites This chapter describes the prerequisites to install the P9000 Performance Advisor software and the host agents, and explains the installation checklist. For more information, see Table 2 on page 16. To upgrade an existing version of P9000 Performance Advisor, see Table 12 on page 110.
Sections in the HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor and Host Agents Installation Checklist The prerequisites and tasks provided in the installation checklist are organized as follows: • Before installing P9000 Performance Advisor: This section lists the tasks and prerequisites you must complete before starting the P9000 Performance Advisor installation process on your management station.
Get the fully-qualified domain name or IP address of your management station. For more information, see “Getting the fully qualified domain name or IP address of your management station” on page 26. Determine the authentication type for the management station. For more information, see “Determining the authentication type for P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 26. Allocate at least 1 GB free disk space in your management station's TEMP folder, if you are opting for a complete installation.
Installing P9000 Performance Advisor Install P9000 Performance Advisor on your management station. At this point, return to the P9000 Performance Advisor Installation Wizard Welcome window to proceed with the installation. For more information, see “Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 43. IMPORTANT: After installing P9000 Performance Advisor, return to this checklist to complete the remaining prerequisites and tasks for downloading and installing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents.
Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents Install the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents. At this point, return to the respective P9000 Performance Advisor host agents installation procedures for the host agents you want to install. For more information, see “Installing P9000 Performance Advisor host agents” on page 73.
After you complete the prerequisites, perform the P9000 Performance Advisor management station prerequisites. For more information, see “Management station prerequisites” on page 24. Designing the infrastructure This complete section needs to be reviewed for the new array, P9000. The following procedure helps you to estimate the number of management stations, hosts, XP and the P9000 disk arrays that are required: 1. Collecting information about the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that you will monitor 2.
1. Check the supported configuration for the management station and the host agent. For more information, see Verifying the supported configurations for P9000 Performance Advisor and Verifying the supported configurations for P9000 Performance Advisor host agents. 2. Increase the management station and the host agent configuration based on the number of LDEVs you require and the collection frequencies you want to set. For more information, see Estimating the required configuration.
The consolidated free space that is required for P9000 Performance Advisor is the total sum of the free space available on all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays monitored by P9000 Performance Advisor. Example 1. Determining the disk space requirements for P9000 Performance Advisor Consider that the P9000 and the XP disk arrays, P9500 and XP24000 are monitored by the P9000 Performance Advisor management station.
the load on Performance Advisor at any point in time is balanced because data collection occurs for all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays not every 15 minutes of the hour, but at varied points of time in the day.
• P9000 Performance Advisor + HP Storage Essentials • P9000 Performance Advisor cannot coexist with applications that do not allow different applicationspecific Oracle database instances to coexist. For example, HP Storage Essentials does not allow another Oracle database instance to coexist with its specific instance.
NOTE: For additional database operations, HP recommends that 50 GB of free space be available on the drive where the P9000 Performance Advisor database (PADB) will be installed.
Firmware For the list of required and recommended firmware versions for all the supported XP and P9000 disk array models, see the HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software Release Notes available at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us& taskId=101&prodClassId=-1&contentType=SupportManual&docIndexId=64180&prodTypeId=18964& prodSeriesId=64823.
NOTE: • To implement the Windows System Authentication or Windows Domain based Authentication on your management station, ensure that your management station is part of a domain. • To implement the Windows Domain, LDAP, or RADIUS authentication type, you must complete the prerequisites that allow P9000 Performance Advisor to work with the selected authentication server to authenticate and authorize users.
Supported LDAP authentication mechanism SIMPLE (clear-text password) mechanism To implement the LDAP Authentication, complete the following prerequisites: • Install LDAP v3 (RFC 4510) on a server with an established P9000 Performance Advisor connection. • Create the StorageAdmins and StorageUsers groups on the LDAP server, and add members to these groups.
Example 3. VSA added to User_2 profile in the P9000 PA users group: Vendor_ID=11 SubAttributeType=1 Attribute Value= XPPA: role=user (For P9000 Performance Advisor users: XPPA: role=user) For more information on implementing the above-mentioned types of authentication, see “Implementing the authentication method” on page 51.
Description Microsoft Loopback Adapter Physical Address 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50 DHCP Enabled No IP Address 169.254.25.129 Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0 For more information on configuring Loopback Adapters, see Appendix A on page 133. Static IP address To assign a static IP address, do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Right-click My Network Places and select Properties. In the Network Connections window, right-click the network that you are using and select Properties from the pop-up list.
IMPORTANT: • If Adobe Flash Player v9.0.115.0 or later is installed on your management station, it blocks commonly reserved ports as a security measure to prevent unauthorized activities. If a port number is specified at the end of a URL, it is verified against the list of commonly reserved ports. If the port number matches any entry in the list, the network request will be rejected and a securityError event will be logged.
C:\>netstat -o -n -a | findstr 0.0:80 You can expect an outcome similar to the following: TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 804 The last column of the output from the above command is the process identifier (PID), denoted by . In the example output, the PID is 804.
Configure your IE browser to not use a proxy server for the IP address or fully qualified domain names. To configure the IE browser proxy server settings: 1. In a IE browser window, click Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings. 2. In the Local Area Network (LAN) Settings window, select the Use a proxy server for your LAN (These settings will not apply to dial-up or VPN connections) check box. 3. Click Advanced. 4. In the Exceptions text box, place your cursor at the end of the domain list. 5.
• OpenVMS Integrity Server (IA-64) (1 GB) • Ethernet LAN card connected to the network Software For the list of supported Windows, UNIX, and OpenVMS operating platforms, see the HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software OS Support Matrix. This document also specifies the supported JRE versions for the Windows and UNIX host agents, and the Windows operating systems that are supported as guest operating platforms on the VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual servers.
Setting up the HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX hosts Before installing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent on an HP-UX, Solaris, or AIX host, ensure that the following prerequisites are completed: 1. You must have root or superuser access to the host. 2. Telnet and FTP services are enabled (on HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX hosts, these services are enabled by default). Configure the root or superuser account to allow remote access via the FTP services. 3.
10. Restart vsftpd by entering /sbin/service vsftpd restart. Make sure no other ftp services are running (for example, tftp). Creating and assigning command devices to host agents If you are using RAID Manager (Business Copy and Continuous Access Synchronous), you already have command devices that the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent can use. If RAID Manager is not being used, create a command device using the Remote Web Console or the Remote Control applications.
Creating a command device for the XP24000/XP20000/XP12000/XP10000 Disk Array After logging into the XP Remote Web Console (see Logging into XP Remote Web Console through XP Command View AE), complete the following steps to create a command device: 1. In the XP RWC window, click GO > LUN Manager > LU Path and Security. A list of LDEVs appears. 2. Right-click the LDEV that you want to convert into a command device. 3. Select Enable\Disable from the drop-down list. 4.
1. Open an IE browser window and enter http://:23015/DeviceManager/ address in the browser address line to access the P9000 Command View AE Device Manager. 2. Launch Replication Manager using one of the following ways: • From the Command View AE Tools > Replication Manager. • Open an IE browser window and enter http://:23015/ReplicationManager/ address in the browser address line.
The Logical Devices window appears and the Attribute column for the selected LDEV record displays the value as Command Device. You can proceed to presenting the command device to your host agent. For more information, see Mapping a command device from P9000 disk array to host agents. Mapping command devices Following sections describe the steps for mapping command devices.
Prerequisite: • Select the Action >> Insert Integration Services Setup Disk option. It is mandatory to install all the required drivers or packages needed by the Hyper-V virtual system to support integrated storage devices like SCSI devices, Fibre Channels, Host Bus Adapters, and so on. • Ensure that the virtual machine is shutdown. Procedure: 1. In the Hyper-V Manager screen, right-click the virtual machine to which you want to map the command devices. 2. Select Settings from the drop-down list. 3.
Verifying host agent connectivity to a command device Before you begin the host agent installation, you must create and assign command devices, so that the connectivity is established between the XP or the P9000 disk arrays and your host agent. If a command device is not created and presented to the host, the RAID Manager Library version is not displayed when you request an host agent update from P9000 Performance Advisor.
Understanding the P9000 Performance Advisor installation prerequisites
3 Installing P9000 Performance Advisor This chapter describes the process of installing P9000 Performance Advisor on a management station.
IMPORTANT: • Configure the antivirus and firewall policies on your management station and host to ensure uninterrupted communication between the two systems. • If the following environment variables are already configured on the management station, delete or rename them before the installation begins: • %ORACLE_HOME% • %ORACLE_SID% • %CATALINA_HOME% You can recreate these variables or rename them back after the installation procedure completes. To begin the P9000 Performance Advisor installation: 1.
3. The installation wizard verifies the following on your management station and takes the appropriate action: • If Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or later is installed. If Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or later is not installed, a message appears displaying that the required version is not available. Click OK on the message dialog box for the installation wizard to install Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 (recommended version).
Figure 6 P9000 Performance Advisor Welcome installation window . Read through the instructions displayed on the Welcome installation window. • To proceed with the installation, you must complete a set of installation prerequisites and tasks provided in a checklist that appears when you click Launch Checklist. For more information, see Launching the P9000 Performance Advisor checklist.
installation of P9000 Performance Advisor. For more information on the checklist, see Installation checklist for P9000 Performance Advisor. • The upgrade checklist appears, if the installation wizard has detected an existing version of P9000 Performance Advisor on the management station. This checklist guides you through the upgrade of P9000 Performance Advisor. For more information on the checklist, see Upgrade checklist for P9000 Performance Advisor.
2. Click Next. The Next button is enabled only when you select the check box. The P9000 Performance Advisor installation wizard verifies the available free disk space on your management station. If not enough free disk space is available, the installation wizard prompts you to free up the disk space and retry the installation. Upon clicking OK, the installation wizard exits. • If enough free disk space is available and if it is an upgrade, the process begins.
Table 7 Maximum size configured for Oracle related files for upgrade from previous version PA Versions PA 5.2 PA 5.3 PA 5.4 For Undo.dbf , the maximum size should be set to 32 GB. No Yes Yes For TEMP01.DBF, the maximum size should be set to 16 GB. No Yes Yes Complying with the End User License Agreement To review the license agreement and proceed with the P9000 Performance Advisor installation: 1. Read the agreement displayed under the End User License Agreement (EULA). 2.
• Browse to the folder in the Change Location window • Enter the path to the folder in the Folder Name text box 2. Click OK. The Install Database to displays the updated database location. TIP: For optimal performance, HP recommends that you place the P9000 Performance Advisor database on a disk volume other than where P9000 Performance Advisor is installed. Click Next to proceed. The IPv6 Configuration installation window appears.
Implementing the authentication method Based on the authentication method you want for P9000 performance Advisor users, select the respective option from the following list displayed on the Authentication Configuration installation window: • P9000 Performance Advisor Native Authentication. For more information on implementing, see P9000 Performance Advisor Native Authentication. • Windows System Authentication. For more information on implementing this authentication, see Windows System Authentication.
Windows System Authentication In this authentication method, the P9000 Performance Advisor installer checks for the following groups on your local system and creates them if they do not exist: • HP Storage Admin • HP Storage Users They are provided the same privileges that P9000 Performance Advisor Administrators and Users own.
Configuring the LDAP server and connection settings To configure the LDAP server and connection settings: 1. Enter the required Server and Connection values. Table 8 provides the description for each of the fields under the Server and Connection sections. Table 8 LDAP server connection settings Screen elements Description Network name (or IP address) and Port # of the LDAP server to be used for authentication. Server Address box and Port box The default port # is 636 for LDAP when SSL is enabled.
The Authentication Configuration window appears for LDAP, where you must provide the filter and group settings. For more information on the next set of steps, see Configuring the LDAP user search and filter, and group settings.
1. Enter the required P9000 Performance Advisor User Search and Filter Settings and P9000 Performance Advisor Group Settings. Table 9 provides the description for the P9000 Performance Advisor User Search and Filter Settings and P9000 Performance Advisor Group Settings fields. Figure 8 Configure LDAP Filter and Group Settings installation window .
Screen elements Description {Username} is the placeholder, that will be replaced with the P9000 Performance Advisor user’s name whose account should be authenticated and authorized. Group Base DN box Base DN in the LDAP DIT for all the groups. This is the path in the LDAP directory where all groups are located. P9000 PA Administrators Group DN box Distinguished names of the P9000 Performance Advisor Administrators in the LDAP directory.
1. Enter the required server connection values. Table 10 provides the description for each of the RADIUS fields. NOTE: Among the following settings, only the server address and shared secret values must be provided. The remaining values are pre-populated and should not be modified. Figure 9 Configure RADIUS Authentication Settings installation window .
2. Screen elements Description Confirm Shared Secret box Confirm the shared secret to be used when communicating with the RADIUS server for user authentication. Retry Count box The maximum number of authentication attempts for a user to log in (default value: 3). Timeout Value box The duration of time (in milliseconds) before timing out on an authentication attempt. (Default value: 3000). Click Next to proceed. The Choose Setup Type installation window appears.
IMPORTANT: • After installing P9000 Performance Advisor, the host agents, CLUI, P9000Watch, and the P9000Sketch are available in the :\HPSS\pa\tomcat\ webapps\pa\tools folder on your management station. • The P9000 Performance Advisor host agents are also available on the P9000 Performance Advisor installation disk 2.
• Choose a location on your management station to install P9000 Performance Advisor. By default, the Install to: displays the location as :\HPSS\. Select another folder on the default or a different disk volume and the folder location on your management station. To manually select a different installation location: 1.
2. Click the down arrow for the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent that you want to install. Figure 10 Configure Custom Setup installation window . A pop-up dialog box appears displaying the different installation types. 3. Select the type of installation that you want. The following installation options are available: This feature will be installed on the local drive (disk volume). This feature and all the sub features, will be installed on the local drive.
Selecting P9000 Performance Advisor tools To select the P9000 Performance Advisor tools that you want to install: 1. Click the + sign or the down arrow beside the Tools menu to view the following P9000 Performance Advisor tools: • • • • 2. P9000Sketch P9000Watch P9000Info CmdLineUserInterface By default, CmdLineUserInterface (CLUI) software is copied to the location where P9000 Performance Advisor is installed. Repeats steps 2 and 3 from the procedure for Selecting P9000 Performance Advisor host agents.
P9000 Performance Advisor post-installation steps NOTE: This section is also applicable for the upgrade process.
NOTE: For more information on the CLUI, P9000Watch, and P9000Sketch, see the respective documents. For document download location, see Related information. Confirming the P9000 Performance Advisor services To confirm whether the P9000 Performance Advisor services have started after installation: 1. Select Start > Run, type services.msc, and press the Enter key. The Services window appears. 2. If P9000 Performance Advisor is installed, the status of the following services are in the Started mode.
Configuring P9000 Performance Advisor related settings Configure the following settings as appropriate on your web client or management station after installing or upgrading P9000 Performance Advisor. It includes creating and adding users as administrators, or users for the different authentication types. Configuring the web browser web proxy server settings If not already done, configure the IE browser's web proxy server settings on your system from where you want to access P9000 Performance Advisor.
1. On your management station, go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Groups. The HP Storage Admin and HP Storage Users groups are located in the Groups folder on your management station. 2. Right-click the HP Storage Admin or the HP Storage Users group, based on whether you want to add admin users or only users. 3. Select the Add to Group option from the pop-up list to add local users, domain users, or a group.
1. Open a new IE browser window. If you are accessing P9000 Performance Advisor locally on your management station or remotely over a secure connection, enter one of the following http addresses in the browser address line (the P9000 Performance Advisor URL is case-sensitive): • Server name followed by /pa for accessing P9000 Performance Advisor locally on the management station.
• XP entitlement certificates: The registration numbers can be used on XP disk arrays only, such as the XP24000, XP20000, XP12000, XP10000, XP1024, and the XP128. • P9000 entitlement certificates: The registration numbers can be used on P9000 disk arrays only. Based on the license entitlement certificate that you receive, generate and install a Permanent license for the internal raw disk capacity, or the usable capacity, that you want P9500 Performance Advisor to monitor.
6. Click Next >>. The Requestor Information screen appears. 7. Provide the requestor and the company related information, and click Next >>. The Requestor Information screen appears again with all the details that you provided. 8. Click Next >> to confirm the details. The Certificate screen appears and provides the license details. You can do the following on the Certificate screen: • Click Save to print a copy of the certificate. • Click Keyfile to save the license file as a .dat file on your system.
A Meter based Term license is a secondary license that is generated in TB-Days for the usable capacity (YTB) that you want to monitor and the duration (X days) for which you want to monitor. Use the following formula to calculate the TB-Days of Meter based Term license that you need: Usable capacity (XTB) * Duration (Y days) = ZTB-Days Meter based Term license Where, Z indicates the total TB-Days of Meter based Term license that you require to monitor XTB of usable capacity for Y days.
Installation or upgrade When you upgrade P9000 Performance Advisor from v5.2 or later to v5.4, and the following are detected: • License violation for one or more monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays License management P9000 Performance Advisor continues to be in that state until you generate a Permanent license for the monitored XP or the P9000 disk arrays. • P9000 Performance Advisor is already in the license expiry violation duration When you upgrade P9000 Performance Advisor from v5.2 or later to v5.
Installing P9000 Performance Advisor
4 Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents This chapter describes the process to install P9000 Performance Advisor Windows and UNIX host agents.
7. If not already done, install P9000Info on your host to verify that the connectivity to the command device is established. For more information, see Verifying host agent connectivity to a command device. IMPORTANT: You must create and assign a command device from an XP or a P9000 disk array to your host agent. If not yet created, the corresponding RAID Manager Library version will not be displayed in the Host Information table when you request for a host agent update after the installation.
Executing the Windows host agent installer IMPORTANT: The 64–bit Windows host agent can only be installed on an IA-64 Windows system. To execute the Windows host agent installer: 1. Log on to the host where you want to install the Windows host agent. You must log on either as an administrator or a user who is granted administrator privileges. 2. Navigate to the tmp directory or to the folder, where you have copied the host agent files. 3. Unzip the host agent .
2. Based on whether you have enabled or disabled IPv6 for the host agent, enter the corresponding registered fully qualified Domain Name System (DNS) or IP address of the management station in the Management Station Address box. If multiple LAN cards are configured in the management station, enter the IP address of your corporate LAN. IMPORTANT: Ensure that the DNS ([servername].[domain name]) or IP address that you provide does not contain a space or non-alphanumeric characters.
NOTE: These verification tests only help you to verify if the details provided are accurate. Even if the tests are not successful, the host agent installation does not stop. You can rectify the errors and proceed with the installation, or complete the installation and then resolve the validity and connectivity issues. For more information on resolving errors later, see Resolving validity, connectivity, and GUID configuration errors after installation.
Resolving validity, connectivity, and GUID configuration errors after installation To resolve the validity and connectivity issues after the Windows host agent installation, complete the following: • Provide a valid DNS or IP address, and HTTP port number: 1. Open the paxp_service.properties file from the :\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\xppa\hostagent\config folder on your host system.
2. Click the down arrow for Realtime. 3. In the pop-up dialog box that appears, select X to remove real-time from your host, or click to install real-time on your host. In addition to the above-mentioned, you can also do the following: • View the description for each program feature that you want to install. Clicking a program feature displays a brief description and the amount of disk space required to install it, in the Feature Description frame.
Figure 11 P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent log file . Based on whether you have performed an installation or upgrade, do one of the following: • Return to the installation checklist to complete the remaining checklist items. For more information, see Table 2 on page 16. • Return to the upgrade checklist to complete the remaining checklist items. For more information, see Table 12 on page 110.
Executing the UNIX host agent installer IMPORTANT: Before proceeding with the installation, use P9000Info to verify that the connectivity to the command device is established. If you are performing an upgrade, the connectivity to the command device must already exist. For more information, see “Verifying host agent connectivity to a command device” on page 41. To execute the UNIX host agent installer: 1. Telnet to the remote host as a root user. 2.
For more information on enabling IPv6 on your host, see the important notes in “Enabling IPv6 and configuring HTTP port for the Windows host agent” on page 75. Completing the UNIX host agent installation and next steps NOTE: This section is also applicable for the upgrade process. The P9000 Performance Advisor UNIX host agent is installed based on the selected settings. After the installation (or upgrade) completes, the host agent services start.
If the UNIX host agent or real-time service does not start automatically, type the following commands at the prompt to manually start the host agent and real-time services: • /opt/xppa/hostagent/sbin/xppa start • /opt/xppa/realtime/xpparealtime start Installing the P9000 Performance Advisor OpenVMS Integrity Server host agents This section describes the procedure of installing the P9000 Performance Advisor OpenVMS Integrity Server host agents.
6. Enter the port number that the host agent must use to communicate with the management station. 7. Press Enter to confirm the details and begin the installation. The installation wizard installs the P9000 Performance Advisor OVMS host agent in the following location: SYS$COMMON:[HEWLETTPACKARD.P9000HOSTSW] Completing the OpenVMS Integrity Server host agent installation The P9000 Performance Advisor OpenVMS Integrity Server host agent is installed according to the selected settings.
If the host agent or real-time service does not start automatically, type the following command at the system prompt to manually restart the host agent and real-time services:@SYS$COMMON:[HEWLETTPACKARD.P9000HOSTSW]xppa.com Verifying if the host agents appear in P9000 Performance Advisor NOTE: This section is also applicable for the upgrade process.
Assigning GUIDs for command devices on a Windows host agent To overcome device renaming and device remapping issues during data collection, HP recommends that you use the Windows GUID (\\?\Volume{GUID}) to perform configuration and performance data collection instead of using the device file names. Complete the following steps to use the GUID: 1. 2. Log on to the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent and stop the host agent and real-time services. For steps to stop these services, see Appendix B.
j. Do one of the following: • Create and mount a new NTFS folder dynamically by entering in the text box, the path where the folder will be created. • Click Browse to select and mount an existing NTFS folder. k. Click Next. l. Select Do not format this partition, and click Next. m. Click Finish. The selected command device is partitioned and is assigned a GUID. For information on using Disk Management, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/en-us. 4.
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5 Configuring SSL settings for P9000 Performance Advisor You can configure SSL settings for P9000 Performance Advisor using the unsigned or the signed approach. Unsigned approach You can generate unsigned SSL certificates on the server and add them to the JRE's trusted list of certificates to enable SSL on a P9000 Performance Advisor. The advantage with this method is that it does not need a Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificate.
" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443" /> --> The keystore location is provided by the Tomcat server. 7. Start the Tomcat server in the SSL mode: https://[server name].[domain name]/pa or https://[IP address]/pa Host Agent To configure SSL settings in the host agent perform the following steps: 1. On the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent, download the InstallCert program from the following location: http://blogs.sun.
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:285) at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:191) at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:218) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.
] Added certificate to keystore 'jssecacerts' using alias 'abc.domain.company.net-1' 5. Move the keystore created in the previous step to the following location <%JAVA_HOME%>/bin/ jre/lib/security using the # mv jssecacerts /opt/java6/jre/lib/security/ command. • The default locations for windows and non windows are listed below: • C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\xppa\jre\lib\security • /opt/java6/jre/lib/security/ 6.
IMPORTANT: To enable SSL on a P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent, complete the following steps in addition to the above-mentioned steps: 1. Stop the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent and real-time services. For more information, see Appendix B. 2. Copy the following jar files, sunpkcs11.jar, sunjce_provider.jar, and dnsns.jar contents from %JAVA_HOME%\lib\ext to the \xppa\hostagent folder. 3. Start the P9000 Performance Advisor host agent and real-time services.
Enter key password for (RETURN if same as keystore password): 2. Generate the CSR file by executing the following command: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\bin>keytool -certreq -alias tomcat -file csr.txt -certreq -keystore c:\HPSS\pa\tomcat\conf\keystore Where ever the password is prompted the password provided is “changeit” Enter keystore password: The text file csr.txt will be generated in the current directory. Type csr.txt at the prompt to open the file. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.
PathLen:2147483647 ] #3: ObjectId: 2.5.29.14 Criticality=false SubjectKeyIdentifier [ KeyIdentifier [ 0000: 48 19 E7 92 6F 92 9D 34 63 99 C0 F0 99 C8 D6 A5 0010: 8C 8C 7F 65 ] ] H...o..4c....... ...e #4: ObjectId: 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.1.12 Criticality=false Trust this certificate? [no]: yes Certificate was added to keystore Import the secondary certificate by executing the following command: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.
Secondary certificate -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----MIIFfDCCBGSgAwIBAgIQfju3hLvGVKvSuNZ37MOUqDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCB jDELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxFzAVBgNVBAoTDlZlcmlTaWduLCBJbmMuMTAwLgYDVQQL EydGb3IgVGVzdCBQdXJwb3NlcyBPbmx5LiAgTm8gYXNzdXJhbmNlcy4xMjAwBgNV BAMTKVZlcmlTaWduIFRyaWFsIFNlY3VyZSBTZXJ2ZXIgUm9vdCBDQSAtIEcyMB4X DTA5MDQwMTAwMDAwMFoXDTE5MDMzMTIzNTk1OVowgcsxCzAJBgNVBAYTAlVTMRcw FQYDVQQKEw5WZXJpU2lnbiwgSW5jLjEwMC4GA1UECxMnRm9yIFRlc3QgUHVycG9z ZXMgT25seS4gIE5vIGFzc3VyYW5jZXMuMUIwQAYDVQQLEzlUZXJtcyBvZiB1c2Ug YXQgaHR0c
SSL Certificate -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----MIIFOzCCBCOgAwIBAgIQJWV7t1gEpuNWxF7Wf8o2bzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADCB yzELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxFzAVBgNVBAoTDlZlcmlTaWduLCBJbmMuMTAwLgYDVQQL EydGb3IgVGVzdCBQdXJwb3NlcyBPbmx5LiAgTm8gYXNzdXJhbmNlcy4xQjBABgNV BAsTOVRlcm1zIG9mIHVzZSBhdCBodHRwczovL3d3dy52ZXJpc2lnbi5jb20vY3Bz L3Rlc3RjYSAoYykwOTEtMCsGA1UEAxMkVmVyaVNpZ24gVHJpYWwgU2VjdXJlIFNl cnZlciBDQSAtIEcyMB4XDTExMDMxMjAwMDAwMFoXDTExMDQxMTIzNTk1OVowgZMx CzAJBgNVBAYTAklOMQswCQYDVQQIEwJJTjEMMAoGA1UEBxQDQkxSMQswCQYDVQQK FAJIUDEMMAoGA1
Host Agent For information on configuring SSL using the signed approach for host agent, see Host Agent.
6 Using P9000 Performance Advisor After installing the P9000 Performance Advisor and the host agents, start collecting the configuration and the performance data for the XP and the P9000 disk arrays. You can initiate configuration data collection for only one XP or P9000 disk array at a time, and select only one command device through which you can collect data for the XP or the P9000 disk array.
5. Click Request Info. The Request Info button is enabled only when you select the host agents. Use the Shft or the Ctrl key to select multiple host agent records. The request is executed in the subsequent data collection cycle.
4. Select Collection Period as Recurring. NOTE: To collect configuration data once, select One Time as the collection period. Figure 15 on page 101 shows scheduling configuration data collection for 53036, which belongs to the P9500 Disk Array type. Figure 15 Configuration Data Collection .
5. Retain the Collection Type as OutBand (default selection), if you want P9000 Performance Advisor to directly collect data from the XP or the P9000 disk array through the array SVP (not applicable for XP1024/128 Disk Arrays). Select the Collection Type as Inband, if you want the RAID Manager Library to collect the configuration data from an XP or a P9000 disk array and transfer to P9000 Performance Advisor.
7. Based on the disk array and mode of collection that you selected, following are the further course of steps: If you selected an XP disk array and either of the following modes of configuration data collection: • The outband mode - In this case, manually enter the SVP IP address in the SVP IP Address text box and proceed to next step to initiate the configuration data collection.
IMPORTANT: If the configuration data collection fails due to an error, the Collection Status displays for the error is displayed as a tool tip. . The reason After completing the configuration data collection, start collecting the performance data for the XP or the P9000 disk array. For more information, see “Collecting performance data” on page 104. Collecting performance data IMPORTANT: • The performance data collection does not start if the configuration data collection is in progress.
4. Click Create. The Create button is enabled only when you select an XP or a P9000 disk array record under the Performance Collection tab.
7. In the respective component type lists, select the check boxes for the components to collect their performance data. The following component type lists are displayed: For an XP disk array, the DKC provides data on the CHIPs, ACPs, Cache, SLPR, CLPR, and the SM. DKC For a P9000 disk array, the DKC provides data on the MP blades, in addition to the data on the Cache, CLPR, and the SM. NOTE: SLPR does not exist in the P9000 disk arrays.
Figure 16 Performance Data Collection . 1 Resource type list. 8. Set the frequency in minutes for the DKC, RAID groups, and the port performance data collection by selecting the frequency from the respective Frequency list. 9. Select the check box for Stagger Schedule if you want to stagger the data collection time at different intervals.
The new schedule starts automatically. The following table provides the subsequent changes that occur in the Performance Data section for the selected XP or the P9000 disk array record: Screen elements Description Schedule Name Displays the new schedule name. Components Displays the selected components. Click View to see the corresponding schedule details. Enabled Frequency Displays , which indicates that the schedule has started.
7 Understanding the P9000 Performance Advisor upgrade prerequisites This chapter describes the prerequisites to upgrade the P9000 Performance Advisor software and the host agents, and explains the upgrade checklist. For more information, see Table 12 on page 110. To install P9000 Performance Advisor, see Table 2 on page 16.
• Before upgrading P9000 Performance Advisor: This section lists the tasks and prerequisites that you must complete before starting the P9000 Performance Advisor upgrade process on your management station. • Upgrading P9000 Performance Advisor: This section directs you to the P9000 Performance Advisor installation wizard. • After upgrading P9000 Performance Advisor: This section lists the post-upgrade tasks and prerequisites you must complete before upgrading the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents.
Launch P9000 Performance Advisor and log in using your credentials. IMPORTANT: Install Adobe Flash Player on the system from where you will access P9000 Performance Advisor. Download Adobe Flash Player and Flash Player Plugin, v10.0.0 or later from the following location: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. For more information, see “Launching P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 66. Configure your web browser to not use any web proxy servers.
Start collecting the configuration and performance data for the XP and P9000 disk arrays. For more information, see “Using P9000 Performance Advisor” on page 99. Determining the current version of P9000 Performance Advisor To upgrade to P9000 Performance Advisor v5.4, you must have one of the following versions, v5.2, v5.2.1, v5.3, or v5.3.1 installed on your management station. To upgrade to v5.2 or v5.
8 Upgrading P9000 Performance Advisor This chapter describes upgrading the current version of P9000 Performance Advisor to its latest version.
IMPORTANT: • If the upgrade does not complete, the installation wizard will automatically perform a roll-back of P9000 Performance Advisor to the earlier version, from where you had initiated the upgrade. • The installer log details are available in the PA_Install.log file in the :\ P9000_PA_Install_Log path, where refers to the drive on which the operating system is installed. For the PA_Install.log to open, Windows Installer v4.
9 Upgrading the P9000 Performance Advisor host agents This chapter describes upgrading the P9000 Performance Advisor Windows and UNIX host agents.
Windows host agent upgrade To upgrade the P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent: 1. 2. Unzip the host agent .tar file (XPPA_HA_WINDOWS_32.tar) using the WinZip or the WinRAR tool. Run the setup.exe file. The Welcome screen appears. 3. Click Next. The Ready to Upgrade the Program screen appears. 4. 5. Click Next. During the upgrade process, you will be prompted to confirm the removal of RAID Manager Library, click Yes.
10 Modifying or repairing P9000 Performance Advisor After installing P9000 Performance Advisor or the host agents, modify the settings that you selected during the installation.
2. Select Repair as the Program Maintenance type and click Next. 3. Click Install on the Ready to Repair window. The setup program transfers and removes application files (as appropriate) to, and from the destination folder, and configures P9000 Performance Advisor. When prompted for the second disk, insert the P9000 Performance Advisor installation disk 2 into the DVD drive, and click OK to continue. 4. When the repair is done, the Installation Complete window appears.
1. Run the setup.exe installation script. For more information, see “Executing the Windows host agent installer” on page 75. The Welcome installation window appears. 2. Select Repair as the Program Maintenance type and click Next. The Ready to Repair the Program window appears. 3. Click Install on the Ready to Repair the Program window. The setup program transfers and removes application files (as appropriate) to, and from the destination folder, and configures the P9000 Performance Advisor.
Modifying or repairing P9000 Performance Advisor
11 Removing P9000 Performance Advisor To remove P9000 Performance Advisor, you must first remove the host agent from each host, and then remove P9000 Performance Advisor from the management station. IMPORTANT: Ensure that the following are completed before you proceed: • No other user is accessing the folders in the \HPSS (%HPSS_HOME%) folder on the management station and the \ Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\XPPA\hostagent folder on the respective hosts.
2. 3. 4. Select HP StorageWorks P9000 Host Agent Installer to remove the existing version of the host agent. The installer informs you that a system reboot is required after the host agent is removed. Click OK to proceed or click Cancel. The installer starts gathering the required information. This might take few minutes. The installer then prompts you to remove the RAID Manager Library functions. Click Yes to remove the RAID Manager Library.
Removing the P9000 Performance Advisor management station WARNING! Removing P9000 Performance Advisor also deletes the database completely from the management station. If you want to retain a copy of the database, click No on the message prompt that appears when you begin the un-installation process. Then, take a backup of the database using the Backup utility (click Start > Programs > HP StorageWorks > Backup Utility). After the data backup is complete, resume the un-installation process.
Removing P9000 Performance Advisor
12 Installing Oracle patches and security updates This section describes the Oracle patch installation procedure to apply the latest patches and security features for the Oracle instance that is installed with P9000 Performance Advisor. It is not mandatory to install the patches. It is required only if you want to meet the security compliance standards of Oracle within your organization.
1. Take a backup of the installed PADB database, the Oracle base directory, and the Oracle inventory under the c:\Program files\oracle directory using the Backup utility. The environment variable %PADB_HOME% points to the Oracle base directory. You can restore the inventory later if required. For more information on using the Backup utility, see the HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software User Guide. NOTE: The database install location and the Oracle base directory are the same. 2.
2. After the installation, complete the following additional steps to verify invalid objects: a. In the command prompt window, type sqlplus /nolog and press Enter. b. Execute the following query to connect to the database as SYSDBA using SQL*Plus: CONNECT / AS SYSDBA SQL c. After you are connected, execute the following query: SELECT OBJECT_NAME FROM DBA_OBJECTS WHERE STATUS = 'INVALID'; The following message is displayed: no rows selected.
Installing Oracle patches and security updates
13 Support and other resources Contacting HP HP technical support For world wide technical support information, see the HP support website: http://www.hp.
• P9000Info Release Notes To find related documents, browse to the Manuals page of the HP Business Support Center web site: http://www.hp.com/support/manuals For related documentation, navigate to the Storage section, select a storage category (Storage Software > Storage Device Management Software and product. Websites • HP.com http://www.hp.com • HP Storage http://www.hp.com/go/storage • HP Manuals http://www.hp.com/support/manuals • HP download drivers and software http://www.hp.
Typographic conventions Table 13 Document conventions Convention Element Blue text: Table 13 Cross-reference links and email addresses Blue, underlined text: http://www.hp.
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A Installing a Loopback Adapter IMPORTANT: The procedures provided here for installing the Loopback Adapter on different Windows versions are directly taken from the Oracle documentation. For the latest information on Loopback Adapter, see the Oracle website: http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10130_02/reqs.htm. When you install a Loopback Adapter, it assigns a local IP address for your computer.
Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0 Installing a Loopback Adapter on Windows 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows 2008, or Windows XP To install a Loopback Adapter on Windows 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows 2008, or Windows XP: 1. Open the Windows Control Panel. 2. Double-click Add Hardware to start the Add Hardware wizard. 3. In the Welcome window, click Next. 4. In the Is the hardware connected? window, select Yes, I have already connected the hardware, and click Next. 5.
where: • IP_address is the non-routable IP address you entered in step 15. • hostname is the name of the computer. • domainname is the name of the domain. For example: 10.10.10.10 mycomputer.mydomain.com mycomputer 20. Check the network configuration: NOTE: Domain name is optional. a. Open System in the Control Panel, and select the Computer Name tab. In Full computer name, make sure you see the host name and the domain name, for example, sales.us.mycompany.com. b. Click Change.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. In the Hardware tab, click Device Manager. In the Device Manager window, expand Network adapters. You must see Microsoft Loopback Adapter. Right-click Microsoft Loopback Adapter and select Uninstall. Click OK. Restart the computer.
B Starting, stopping, and restarting host agent services This section describes the procedures to start, stop, or restart Windows, UNIX, and OpenVMS Integrity Server (IA–64) host agent and real-time services: IMPORTANT: • When a Windows host agent service is started, stopped, or restarted using the Start > Programs > HP Storage Works > HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Host Agent menu, the real-time service is also automatically started, stopped, or restarted.
At the system prompt, enter the following: @SYS$COMMON:[HEWLETTPACKARD.P9000HOSTSW]xppa.com NOTE: HP recommends that you should not use the following commands to start the services: • @SYS$COMMON:[HEWLETTPACKARD.P9000HOSTSW.realtime]STARTREALTIME.COM • @SYS$COMMON:[HEWLETTPACKARD.P9000HOSTSW.HOSTAGENT.SBIN]STARTUPXPPA.
The following indicates that both the Windows host agent and real-time services have restarted: Restarting HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Host Agent service Stopping HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Host Agent service, please wait...
Starting, stopping, and restarting host agent services
Glossary Array Control Processor (ACP) ACP is used in the XP disk arrays prior to the XP24000 Disk Array. With the introduction of the XP24000 Disk Array, the DKA has replaced ACP. The DKA is also applicable for the P9000 disk arrays. ACP handles the transfer of data between the cache and the physical drives held in the DKUs. The ACPs work in pairs, providing a total of eight SCSI buses. Each SCSI bus associated with one ACP is paired with a SCSI bus on the other ACP pair element.
Command View (CV) Replaced by the Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software. Command View AE (CV AE) The Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software replaces the XP Command View Software to manage the XP and P9000 disk arrays. Continuous Access Synchronous (Cnt Ac-S) The Continuous Access Synchronous Software provides remote replication between the disk arrays that belong to the P9000 and the XP families.
Globally unique identifier (GUID) It is a special type of identifier used in the software applications to provide a unique reference number. The value is represented as a 32 hexadecimal character string, such as the {21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} and usually stored as a 128 bit integer. Hewlett-Packard Authorization Center (HPAC) The Hewlett-Packard Authorization Center license key website (http:// webkey.external.hp.
Primary Volume (PVOL) The PVOL (also seen with a hyphen as P-VOL) is the first of a paired volume set for any program product other than those used for the remote copy operations. RADIUS Vendor Specific Attribute (VSA) The RADIUS VSA is required for authorizing the P9000 Performance Advisor users for the RADIUS authentication. It must have a vendor ID of 11 that is assigned to Hewlett-Packard by IANA and an attribute type of 1.
Storage Logical Partition (SLPR) NOTE: The SLPR component is applicable only for the XP disk arrays. It does not exist in the P9000 disk arrays. As a result, the SLPR-related data is not displayed in P9000 Performance Advisor for the P9000 disk arrays. The SLPR is a partition of the RAID500 to which the host ports (1 or more) and the CLPRs (1 or more) are assigned. The SLPR0 will always exist (cannot be deleted). Sometimes, the SLPR acronym includes an additional word.
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Index P C conventions document, 131 text symbols, 131 D Disk space requirements, 21 document conventions, 131 prerequisites, 129 related documentation, 129 documentation providing feedback, 129 F feedback documentation, 129 H help obtaining, 129 Host agent Windows, Linux, UNIX, , 43 HP technical support, 129 I Installing P9000 Performance Advisor Host agent, 43 Management station, 43 P9000 Performance Advisor tools, 43 L Loopback Adapter Removing, 133 Windows 2000, 133 Windows Server 2003 R2, 133 Loop
W websites HP , 130 HP Subscriber's choice for business, 129 148
