User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- HP Process Resource Manager User Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Overview
- 2 Understanding how PRM manages resources
- 3 PRM configuration planning
- 4 Setting up PRM
- 5 Using PRM with HP System Management Homepage (SMH)
- 6 Using PRM with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
- 7 Configuring and enabling PRM on the command line
- Quick start to using PRM’s command-line interface
- Configuring PRM
- The PRM configuration file
- Configuration tips and requirements
- Specifying PRM groups/controlling CPU resource use
- Controlling memory use
- Controlling applications
- Specifying PRM users
- Assigning secure compartments to PRM groups
- Assigning Unix groups to PRM groups
- Checking the configuration file
- Loading the PRM configuration
- Enabling resource managers
- Updating the configuration
- 8 Fine-tuning your PRM configuration
- 9 Administering PRM
- Moving processes between PRM groups
- Displaying application filename matches
- Displaying netgroup expansions
- Displaying accessible PRM groups
- Displaying state and configuration information
- Displaying application and configuration information
- Setting the memory manager’s polling interval
- Setting the application manager’s polling interval
- Disabling PRM
- Resetting PRM
- Monitoring PRM groups
- Logging PRM memory messages
- Logging PRM application messages
- Displaying groups’ allocated and used resources
- Displaying user information
- Displaying available memory to determine number of shares
- Displaying number of cores to determine number of shares
- Displaying past process information
- Displaying current process information
- Monitoring PRM with GlancePlus
- Monitoring PRM with OpenView Performance Agent (OVPA) / OpenView Performance Manager (OVPM)
- Automating PRM administration with scripts
- Protecting the PRM configuration from reboots
- Reconstructing a configuration file
- Special case of interest: Client/server connections
- Online cell operations
- Backing up PRM files
- A Command reference
- B HP-UX command/system call support
- C Monitoring PRM through SNMP
- D Creating Secure Resource Partitions
- E Using PRM with Serviceguard
- F Using PRM with HP Integrity Virtual Machines
- G PRM error messages
- Glossary
- Index
Index
A
acctcom command
fine-tuning your configuration, 83
support for PRM, 116
adding
application records with a text editor, 67
compartment records with a text editor, 76
group/CPU records with a text editor, 57
memory records with a text editor (private), 62
memory records with a text editor (shared), 62
Unix group records with a text editor, 77
user record for root (automatically), 71
user records with a text editor, 73
advantages to using PRM, 13
alternate configuration files
and the /etc/opt/prm/conf/ directory, 52
alternate group for a PRM user, 72
defined, 145
alternate name
defined, 145
analysis of resource use
GlancePlus, 86
with prmanalyze, 83
application
assignment to a PRM group, 65
launching
in a user-specified group, 70
prmrun syntax, 112
under PRM, 69
manager
defined, 145
introduction, 11
launching an application under PRM, 69
movement of processes on start up, 69
specifying applications to manage, 65
records
adding with a text editor, 67
alternate names, 66
defined, 145
duplicate application records, 65
introduction, 12
modifying with a text editor, 67
removing with a text editor, 68
specifying PRM control of applications, 65
specifying with a text editor, 67
syntax, 65
assigning
applications to PRM groups, 65
compartments to PRM groups, 75
CPU caps (max values), 58
CPU shares, 54
memory allocations, 59
memory caps (max values), 59
Unix group to PRM groups, 77
users to PRM groups, 71
at command
support for PRM, 116
available memory
defined, 145
C
capping
CPU
capping CPU use with prmconfig, 58
per-group capping, 56
prmconfig -M {CPUCAPON|CPUCAPOFF}, 108
showing availability of per-group capping with
prmavail -f, 105
specifying through the max value (per-group capping),
56
specifying through the shares value, 56
memory
capping memory with a text editor, 60
specifying the cap (max value), 59
cell operations, 56, 59
changing groups
example of changing user’s initial group, 74
checking configuration file for errors, 79
checks by prmconfig, 79, 106
commands
acctcom
fine-tuning your configuration, 83
support for PRM, 116
at
support for PRM, 116
cron
support for PRM, 116
id
support for PRM, 116
login
support for PRM, 116
prm2scomp
introduction, 13
syntax, 114
prmagt
error messages, 144
introduction, 12
starting at boot, 119
syntax, 101
using, 119
prmanalyze
analysis of resource use, 83
error messages, 142
fine-tuning your configuration, 83
introduction, 12
using -p to track active processes, 102
prmavail
error messages, 141
introduction, 12
syntax, 105
prmconfig
148 Index