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
checking configuration file syntax, 51
differences between -i and -k, 80
error messages, 131
errors in the configuration file, 79
including full hierarchies in output with -h, 107
introduction, 12
loading a configuration file, 79
syntax, 106
unlocking a configuration file lock, 107
validating your configuration, 79, 106
prminitconfig
introduction, 12
syntax, 108
prmlist
error messages, 138
including full hierarchies in output with -h, 109
introduction, 12
syntax, 109
prmloadconf
creating a new configuration file, 51, 53
error messages, 140
introduction, 12
syntax, 110
updating the configuration file, 53, 81
prmmonitor
error messages, 130
fine-tuning your configuration, 83
including full hierarchies in output with -h, 111
introduction, 12
syntax, 110
prmmove
error messages, 134
example, 68
introduction, 12
preventing process moves by the application manager
with -g, 69
syntax, 111
prmrecover
error messages, 140
introduction, 12
syntax, 112
prmrun
error messages, 136
example, 70
introduction, 13
starting an application in a user-specified group, 70
starting an application in its assigned group, 70
starting an application under PRM, 69
syntax, 112
prmsmhconfig
introduction, 13
syntax, 113
ps
confirming processes are in the correct groups, 47,
50, 52
example, 68
support for PRM, 116
scomp2prm
introduction, 13
syntax, 114
srpgen
introduction, 13
syntax, 114
commands for PRM, 12
compartment records
adding with a text editor, 76
modifying with a text editor, 76
removing with a text editor, 76, 78
specifying compartment records, 75
syntax, 75
compartments (overview), 126
configuration
displaying current configuration information, 106
enabling, 80
fine-tuning, 83
loading, 79
loading with prmconfig, 80
lock (unlocking with prmconfig -u), 107
tips, 53
configuration file
adding groups, 54
creating, 46, 49, 51
defined, 145
errors, 79
lock (unlocking with prmconfig -u), 107
memory records, 59
modifying groups, 54
overview, 52
syntax checking, 79
unlocking with prmconfig -u, 107
configuring
applications, 65
compartment resource allocation, 75
CPU resource use, 54
memory use, 59
overview, 52
prmconfig syntax, 106
quick start using SIM, 49
quick start using SMH, 46
quick start using the command-line interface, 51
Unix group resource allocation, 77
controlling
applications, 65
CPU resources, 54
memory, 59
CPU
cap, defined, 145
capping
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
with prmconfig, 58
management
specifying CPU resource management, 54
manager
149