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
-i, when to use, 79
-k, when to use, 79
-M, and capping CPU, 58
-s, when to use, 79
-u, and unlocking a configuration file lock, 107
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
validating your configuration, 79, 106
PRMID
defined, 146
groups, 54
range, 54
reserved, 54
prminitconfig command
introduction, 12
syntax, 108
prmlist command
error messages, 138
including full hierarchies in output with -h, 109
introduction, 12
syntax, 109
prmloadconf command
creating a new configuration file, 51, 53
error messages, 140
introduction, 12
syntax, 110
updating the configuration file, 53, 81
prmmonitor command
error messages, 130
fine-tuning your configuration, 83
including full hierarchies in output with -h, 111
introduction, 12
syntax, 110
prmmove command
error messages, 134
example, 68
introduction, 12
preventing process moves by the application manager
with -g, 69
syntax, 111
prmrecover command
error messages, 140
introduction, 12
syntax, 112
prmrun command
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 command
introduction, 13
syntax, 113
process group ID, defined, 146
process group, defined, 146
process ID, defined, 146
processes
movement on start of application management, 69
ps command
confirming processes are in the correct groups, 47, 50,
52
example, 68
support for PRM, 116
pstat system call
support for PRM, 116
Q
quick start to using PRM’s command-line interface, 51
quick start to using PRM’s SIM interface, 49
quick start to using PRM’s SMH interface, 46
R
real memory
defined, 147
real user ID, defined, 147
REALUIDON mode, 108
reconfiguring PRM dynamically, 81
records, 11
application
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
compartment
adding with a text editor, 76
modifying with a text editor, 76
removing with a text editor, 76, 78
specifying, 75
syntax, 75
group/CPU
adding with a text editor, 57
defined, 145
introduction, 12
modifying with a text editor, 57
removing with a text editor, 58
syntax, 55
memory
adding with a text editor (private), 62
adding with a text editor (shared), 62
defined, 146
introduction, 12
modifying with a text editor (private), 62
modifying with a text editor (shared), 62
removing with a text editor (private), 63
152 Index