P9000Watch and P9000Sketch Reference guide for HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor v5.2 (T1789-96319, May 2011)

Contents
1 Introduction to P9000Watch ................................................................ 9
Overview ................................................................................................................................... 9
P9000Watch environment ......................................................................................................... 10
Software environment ......................................................................................................... 10
Hardware environment ........................................................................................................ 10
Functional representation ........................................................................................................... 11
2 Installing P9000Watch ..................................................................... 13
Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 13
Installing P9000Watch .............................................................................................................. 13
Accessing P9000Watch ............................................................................................................ 16
Interactive mode ................................................................................................................. 16
CLI mode .......................................................................................................................... 16
Removing P9000Watch ............................................................................................................. 16
Components ............................................................................................................................ 17
3 Working with P9000Watch menus and commands .............................. 19
Commands .............................................................................................................................. 19
Executing commands in Interactive mode ............................................................................... 19
Executing commands in CLI mode ........................................................................................ 21
Menus ..................................................................................................................................... 23
Array menu ....................................................................................................................... 24
Host Groups ...................................................................................................................... 25
Viewing Host Groups ................................................................................................... 26
Selecting Host Groups .................................................................................................. 26
Clearing Host Groups .................................................................................................. 28
Nickname menu ................................................................................................................. 29
Assigning nicknames .................................................................................................... 30
Renaming nicknames ................................................................................................... 32
Deleting nicknames ...................................................................................................... 32
Port menu .......................................................................................................................... 33
Viewing Port menu ....................................................................................................... 34
Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme ............................................................................ 34
Viewing Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme ......................................................... 34
RAID Group menu .............................................................................................................. 35
Viewing RAID Group menu ........................................................................................... 36
LDEV menu ........................................................................................................................ 36
Viewing LDEV menu ..................................................................................................... 37
Settings menu .................................................................................................................... 37
Menu settings .............................................................................................................. 38
Performance data collection settings ............................................................................... 38
4 Viewing performance metrics in P9000Watch ..................................... 41
Collecting performance metrics ................................................................................................... 41
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