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Collecting data for a workload with a HP Serviceguard package

You can associate a

with a Serviceguard package. This association allows

Matrix OE visualization to show workloads moving from one system to another within minutes of
a Serviceguard migration. It also allows Capacity Advisor to show an uninterrupted history of
utilization data for a workload across migrations.

Associating monitored workloads and Serviceguard packages requires that Serviceguard and the
corresponding version of the Utilization Provider have been installed on all member systems of the
Serviceguard cluster. For specific version information, see the HP Insight Management Support
Matrix.

Supported collection configurations

Table 1 Collection methods by operating system on CMS and managed node types

Collector for HP-UX CMS

Collector for Microsoft Windows CMS

Managed node software and/or
OS

not supported

virtual machine management

HP Insight Control virtual
machine management host or
guest

not supported

virtual machine management

Hyper-V VM

Integrity VM Provider and Utilization
Provider

Integrity VM Provider and agentless
method

Microsoft Windows on Integrity
VM

Integrity VM Provider and agentless
method

Linux on Integrity VM

Integrity VM Provider and Utilization
Provider

HP-UX on Integrity VM

Utilization Provider

OpenVMS on Integrity VM

Utilization Provider (Integrity only)

agentless method

standalone Windows

agentless SSH

standalone Linux

Utilization Provider

standalone HP-UX

Utilization Provider

standalone OpenVMS

Data is obtained from some managed system types using more than one collector. This is done where the data from both
collectors provide a broader or more accurate view than can be obtained from using only one collector on that managed
system type. For example, where both natively collected data (agentless) and data from the Integrity VM Provider are
used, the Integrity VM agent provides info about the VM that allows Capacity Advisor to obtain more accurate CPU data
for the VM, and the agentless method provides metrics other than CPU utilization.

Comparison of agentless and UP data collection

Table 2 (page 19)

compares the operational characteristics of

agentless data collection

and that

of the Utilization Provider when used to collect data from systems licensed for Capacity Advisor.

•

Agentless Data Collection. This method leverages native data collection already occurring on
the managed server(s).

•

WBEM Utilization Provider. This method uses an agent to gather the data and provide it to
the CMS.

Features