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
3. Save the file and exit your editor.
4. Load the configuration using one of the commands below.
To initialize, moving user processes to the owners’ initial groups and moving applications to
their assigned groups, use the command:
#prmconfig -i [-fconfigfile] {-s | -c}
To keep the existing assignments of users, processes, and groups, use the command:
#prmconfig -k [-fconfigfile] {-s | -c}
Use the -f configfile option to specify a file other than the default /etc/prmconf. The -s
option displays warnings regarding the configuration file. (The -c option displays a subset
of the -s warnings.)
5. Enable PRM’s memory manager if it is not already enabled:
#prmconfig -e MEM
Alternatively, enable all PRM resource managers using prmconfig -e without any additional
arguments:
#prmconfig -e
Removing private memory shares
To remove a memory record manually:
1. Open the configuration file in a text editor.
2. Remove the line corresponding to the memory record you wish to remove. Memory records
have the following form:
#!PRM_MEM:{PRMID|GROUP}:SHARES:[MAX]:::[[IMPORT]:[EXPORT]:]
3. (Optional) Adjust the memory shares of the remaining records to ensure their resource
allocations are as desired.
4. Ensure there is still a one-to-one correspondence between memory records and group/CPU
records if there are any memory records still present in the configuration.
5. Save the file and exit the text editor.
6. Load the configuration using one of the following commands:
To initialize, moving user processes to the owners’ initial groups and moving applications to
their assigned groups, use the command:
#prmconfig -i [-fconfigfile] {-s | -c}
To keep the existing assignments of users, processes, and groups, use the command:
#prmconfig -k [-fconfigfile] {-s | -c}
Use the -f configfile option to specify a file other than the default /etc/prmconf. The -s
option displays warnings regarding the configuration file. (The -c option displays a subset
of the -s warnings.)
7. Enable PRM’s memory manager if it is not already enabled:
#prmconfig -e MEM
Alternatively, enable all PRM resource managers using prmconfig -e without any additional
arguments:
#prmconfig -e
Removing shared memory allocations
To remove a memory record manually:
1. Open the configuration file in a text editor.
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