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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Cluster Monitor
»Command Line Tools
»Creating New Command Line Tools
»Custom Commands
»Configuring DMI Access
»Configuring SNMP Access
»Device Ping
»Disk Thresholds
»License Manager
»Management Processor Tools
»Managing MIBs
»Installing OpenSSH
PMP Tools
»Removing and Restoring Tools
»Replicate Agent Settings
»RPM Package Manager
»Server Migration Pack
»System Management Homepage
»System Page
»Version Control
»Virtual Machine Management Pack
»WBEM Based Tools
»Available MSA Tools
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Related Topics

HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) is an integrated performance management solution that detects and analyzes hardware bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers, select HP Integrity servers, and MSA500/MSA1000/MSA1500 shared storage systems. PMP is automatically installed with HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and operates in integration with HP SIM. No software installation on the monitored servers is required, other than the Insight Management Agents. PMP analyzes performance information to determine if there is a building or existing performance bottleneck issue. You can interactively display this information, log the information to a database for later analysis or reporting, and set up proactive notification using the HP SIM notification mechanism.

Two ideal environments for use of PMP are:

Customers that want to know about and deal with server performance issues before they impact user productivity. 

  • PMP provides a concise overview of configuration anomalies that could impact performance, like faster drives on slower controllers, Network Interface Cards (NICs) set to half-duplex, Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) cards concentrated on a single PCI bus, and so forth

  • PMP provides early alerts of building performance bottleneck situations

  • PMP enables interactive and historical analysis of performance issues

  • PMP provides clear-cut recommendations for solving performance issues

Customers that, due to budget constraints, cannot automatically replace servers every three years. 

  • PMP provides detailed information on the subsystem that causes performance constraints, enabling pinpointed upgrades to economically extend the useful life of a server

  • Once economical upgrade possibilities are exhausted, PMP provides a summary report containing both a performance profile (showing for each of the subsystems the percentage of time that performance is out of spec) and a detailed server inventory for each subsystem

There are two PMP tools available through HP SIM Optimize menu:

These options are only available on a Windows system and not on HP-UX or Linux.

  • Online Analysis. Enables you to watch and analyze the real-time performance of a monitored server. It provides an intuitive interface to detail the performance status and inventory of monitored servers, processors, memory, storage, network connections, and host bus nodes for each server.

    To access Online Analysis, select OptimizePerformance Management PackOnline Analysis.

    or

    From the All Systems collection page, select the monitored server by clicking its icon in the PF column.

    To access help for this option, go to https://middle_tier:2381/pmp/help/Server_Status.htm where middle_tier is the name or IP address of the server that HP SIM and PMP are installed, or access PMP directory\Program Files\HP\Performance Management Pack\htm\help\Server_Status.htm where PMP directory is the PMP directory on the server that PMP is installed.

  • Offline Analysis. Enables you to view recorded data sessions directly from the PMP repository.

    To access Offline Analysis, select OptimizePerformance Management PackOffline Analysis.

    To access help for this option, go to https://middle_tier:2381/pmptools/help/Offline Analysis.htm where middle_tier is the name or IP address of the server that HP SIM and PMP are installed, or access PMP directory\Program Files\HP\Performance Management Pack\PMPTools\htm\help\Offline Analysis.htm where PMP directory is the PMP directory on the server that PMP is installed.

Go to http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/valuepack/pmp/index.html for more information on PMP and access to documentation.

Related Topics

» Administering Systems and Events - PMP Administrative Options
» Reporting - PMP Reporting Options