HP Matrix Operating Environment Software - Manual (Page 62)

Importing data for use in Capacity Advisor
To import system utilization data, the system must be discovered by HP SIM.
For systems that you know are running HP Performance Agent (OVPA), you can verify discovery
by clicking “All Systems” or “All Servers” in the HP SIM left navigation bar.
If the system has not been discovered, you can add it manually. (From the top menu bar, select
Options
→Discovery.... You must be a privileged administrator user or root to see this option.)
For help on adding a system manually, see the “Discovery and Identification” topic in the HP
Systems Insight Manager 6.0 online help. After you add a system, verify that the system appears
in “All Systems” view.
For systems running HP Performance Management Pack (PMP), select Optimize
→Capacity
Advisor
→List PMP Systems to see the list of discovered servers running PMP.
Once you verify that the system of interest has been discovered by HP Systems Insight Manager
software, you can import system utilization data into Capacity Advisor.
IMPORTANT: Avoid importing PMP or OVPA data that overlaps time intervals where agentless
data collection has already occurred. Mixing the two data sets can produce confusing reports,
because the agentless collector obtains more metrics than the PMP or OVPA collectors, and the
imported data will overwrite only the metrics that both collectors obtain. This is primarily an
issue when the imported data has invalid data points and the agentless set does not.
Instead, determine if there are time periods where data was not collected using the agentless
method. Import data only for those time periods. Capacity Advisor will behave as though all
the data collected is one contiguous set, and reports will better reflect the actual resource usage.
See
“Ascertaining the data collection availability for a set of servers” (page 63) for instructions.
From the HP SIM Optimize menu — Import HP OVPA data
Prerequisites
• You must be logged in to HP SIM (see “Accessing Capacity Advisor” (page 53) ).
• The system(s) must be discovered by HP SIM.
Procedure 5-10 Import HP OVPA data into Capacity Advisor
1. Click Optimize
→Capacity Advisor→Import OVPA System Data....
2. Select the target system(s).
The Verify Targets screen displays.
3. Verify the target system(s).
You have the opportunity to add or remove systems here. When done, click Next.
The Specify Parameters screen displays.
4. Specify the begin and end dates desired to define the extent of the collection to import.
For example:
[-b 20071101 -e 20071231]
If no date range is given, all data up to 30 days is imported.
5. Optionally, specify [-p] if the import is for a non-Insight Dynamics workload.
6. Click Run Now.
After a short time, the Task Results screen displays.
For tasks where you select Run Now, a few moments will pass and then you see the Task Results
screen. For general help on interpreting the information in this screen, see the HP Systems Insight
Manager 6.0 online help on “Viewing Task Results”.
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