Communicator e3000 MPE/iX Release 7.0 (C.70.00) (30216-90312)

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Technical Articles

PCS/iX (SCOPE) Enhanced with Expanded Limits

By James Overman

Computer Systems Division

The Performance Collection Software (PCS/iX) product (also known as SCOPE/iX) HP

B1794B for MPE/iX has been enhanced to support larger numbers of disks, CPU's, and

other system resources with the version B.13.52 shipped in MPE/iX 7.0. This PCS version

produces modiﬁed format Raw Logﬁles (version D of LOGGLOB.SCOPE.SYS, etc.) and

also modiﬁes the format of Extracted RX Logﬁles that are analyzed by the PerfView

products. HP Perfview and Measureware products are now known as HP Vantage Point

Performance Manager and Agent, respectively.

This new version of PCS/iX supports the increased HP e3000 MPE/iX limits of 511 disks,

15 processors, and 16Gbyte memory sizes. Also, the data ﬁelds have been tweaked to

correctly process the much larger possible sizes of disk storage, number of pins, and other

system resources that have grown along with the more powerful HP e3000s. The

expanded and modiﬁed data items required the update of the MeasureWare Agent portion

of the HP PerfView software [HP Vantage Point Performance AGENT]. Older versions of

HP MeasureWare and the obsolete HP LaserRX software will not process the new

Extracted RX logﬁles.

New releases of HP MeasureWare Agent that understand the new MPE/iX 7.0 Extracted

RX logﬁles are available. Those releases should be acquired by customers through the

usual HP Support Channels. Generally, a Patch for your platform may be requested from

HP in the normal manner (download from the IT Resource Center, or request from the

Response Center).

Immediately after updating or installing PCS/iX B.13.52.03, it will be necessary to use the

UTILITY.SCOPE.SYS program to CONVERT the previous Raw Logﬁle formats (B or C) to

the new D version, if not previously converted. This one-time conversion should require

less than ﬁve minutes for even the largest Raw Logﬁles. This conversion step must be

performed prior to attempting to restart the SCOPEJOB that collects the PCS data.

The Extracted RX logﬁles will be automatically created and modiﬁed when they are

referenced by the EXTRACT.SCOPE.SYS program. If any problems are experienced with

appending to previous RX logﬁles, the RX output ﬁle may be purged and re-extracted in its

entirety. Note that when extracting a period ﬁle (month, week, year), the previous period

ﬁle is examined and updated if needed, before the current period ﬁle is addressed