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Guardian Performance Analyzer (GPA) User Guide
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Section 2: Running GPA ........................................................................................... 30
An Overview of the GPA Procedure ........................................................................................ 30
Establishing the Measurement Period ................................................................................. 31
Running Measure ................................................................................................................ 32
Determining the Analysis Period .......................................................................................... 32
Editing the GPA Text Statements ........................................................................................ 32
Running GPA ....................................................................................................................... 33
Tuning the System with PUPIN or SCFIN ............................................................................ 34
The GPA Pre-Requisites ......................................................................................................... 35
Example ........................................................................................................................... 36
The GPA Procedure ................................................................................................................ 40
GPA Error Messages ........................................................................................................... 42
Section 3: Description of GPA Reports ................................................................... 43
Overview of GPA Reports ....................................................................................................... 43
GPA Standard Report .......................................................................................................... 43
GPA Optional Report ........................................................................................................... 43
GPA Standard Report ............................................................................................................. 45
System Performance Summary ........................................................................................... 45
Node Characteristics ........................................................................................................ 46
Disk Volume Performance ............................................................................................... 48
Global Performance Indicators ......................................................................................... 49
System Performance Score ............................................................................................. 51
Process and Busy Distribution Analyses ............................................................................. 52
Processor Load Balance and Performance Charts .............................................................. 54
Processor Load Balance Chart ........................................................................................ 54
Processor Performance Chart .......................................................................................... 56
Disk Volume Performance Analysis ..................................................................................... 58
Cache Performance Analysis .............................................................................................. 60
