Instruction Manual

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction...............................................................................................9

Overview...............................................................................................................................................9

Structure..............................................................................................................................................10

Features...............................................................................................................................................10

2 Licensing.................................................................................................11

Overview.............................................................................................................................................11

Supported licenses................................................................................................................................11

Licensing preparation............................................................................................................................11

Licensing servers...................................................................................................................................11

Licensing Insight Control performance management using Systems Insight Manager license manager...............11

Adding licenses to the performance management database..................................................................12

Applying licenses to a server.............................................................................................................12

Licensing Insight Control performance management using the Managed System Setup wizard.........................12

Applying licenses to a server.............................................................................................................13

Licensing virtual machine hosts................................................................................................................13

3 Monitoring the server performance.............................................................15

Overview.............................................................................................................................................15

Using the performance management interface..........................................................................................15

Opening the HP Insight Control console..............................................................................................15

Monitoring Administration page..............................................................................................................16

Default performance management monitoring settings..........................................................................16

Setting performance management monitoring parameters.....................................................................16

Number of samples..........................................................................................................................17

Sample rate....................................................................................................................................17

Set Performance Threshold................................................................................................................17

Setting the log days.........................................................................................................................17

Manual Log Purge page.........................................................................................................................17

Enabling virtual machine host and virtual machine guests logging...............................................................18

4 Analyzing the server performance..............................................................21

Overview.............................................................................................................................................21

Online Analysis....................................................................................................................................21

Performing Online Analysis...............................................................................................................21

Offline Analysis....................................................................................................................................22

Performing Offline Analysis...............................................................................................................22

Reading the analysis information.............................................................................................................23

System Details pane.........................................................................................................................24

Server Configuration pane................................................................................................................24

Results pane....................................................................................................................................24

Graphical display.................................................................................................................................24

Expanding the local storage..............................................................................................................25

Displaying the controller...................................................................................................................25

Displaying the port...........................................................................................................................26

Displaying the drive.........................................................................................................................26

Displaying the inventory....................................................................................................................27

5 Reports...................................................................................................29

Overview.............................................................................................................................................29

Static Analysis report.............................................................................................................................29

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