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
6 Using PRM with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
This chapter discusses how you can use PRM with HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM), which
provides a single point of administration for multiple HP-UX systems. The PRM integration with HP
SIM allows system administrators at a SIM Central Management Server (CMS) to perform the
following PRM tasks on the nodes in the SIM cluster that have PRM installed:
• Monitor PRM Groups
• Configure PRM Groups
• Display Resource Usage
• List Resource Availability
What PRM tasks are available through SIM?
The following sections describe the PRM tasks available through SIM.
Monitor PRM Groups
Enables you to monitor PRM groups on the specified target nodes.
Configure PRM Groups
Enables you to create PRM groups on the specified target nodes.
Display Resource Usage
Executes the prmlist command on the specified target nodes. Command output as well as error
messages produced by prmlist are displayed in the SIM GUI.
For this task to display meaningful results, a valid configuration file must be loaded on the target
systems.
List Resource Availability
Executes the prmavail -p command on the specified target nodes. Command output as well as
error messages produced by prmavail -p are displayed on the SIM GUI.
This tool does not require a valid configuration on the target systems in order to produce meaningful
results.
Configuring user authorizations
You must be authorized in HP SIM to run the PRM tools. To configure user authorizations, you must
be logged into HP SIM as a user with Full Configuration Rights. Refer to mxuser(1M) for information
about viewing and setting configuration rights. Choose Options->Security->Users and Authorizations
from the HP SIM menu bar. Use the tabs to view and change the toolbox authorizations for each
user. For detailed information about creating and updating authorizations, refer to the HP SIM
online help. The following list defines the authorization provided by each of the toolboxes associated
with PRM:
PRM All Tools Authorize this toolbox on managed systems to allow users to monitor and
configure the PRM groups on those systems. Authorize on the CMS only if
the CMS will also be a managed system.
PRM Monitor Authorize this toolbox on managed systems to allow users to monitor the
PRM groups. Authorize on the CMS only if the CMS will also be a managed
system.
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