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8 Managing and monitoring server performance
This chapter provides an overview of how Insight Control performance manager features help you to manage
and monitor server health and performance.
Performance management overview
Insight Control performance management detects, analyzes, and explains hardware bottlenecks on HP
servers (Insight Control does not require Integrity servers to be licensed in order to provide the performance
management functionality for Integrity servers).
Performance management provides the tools you need to receive proactive notification of bottleneck conditions
and debug existing performance issues. The performance information is analyzed 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
Systems Insight Manager notification mechanism.
Table 8-1 “Launching performance management features” lists the performance management features and
how to access them.
Launching performance management features
Table 8-1 Launching performance management features
Description From the CMS management console GUI
Online Analysis allows you to watch and analyze in real-time the performance
of a monitored server. It provides detailed performance status and inventory of
monitored servers and the processors, memory, storage, network connections,
and host bus nodes for each server.
Offline Analysis enables you to view recorded data sessions directly from the
repository.
Diagnose
→Performance Management
Generates the following reports:
•
Static Analysis Report provides the performance status of the following
server components: processors, memory, network connections, storage, and
host buses.
• System Summary Report provides the percentage of time each server
component was in a bottleneck state during the selected time interval and
provides a detailed system configuration listing with the same information
that is available from Online Analysis.
•
CSV File Generator generates a comma-separated value (CSV) file for
importing into desktop analysis or reporting tools.
•
Server Availability Report provides the percentage of time each server
component was in a bottleneck state during the selected interval.
Reports
→Performance Management
Provides the following options:
•
Hardware Specifications displays the hardware specifications for a server
such as model number, amount of memory, storage capacity, and processor
information.
•
Manual Log Purge deletes the recorded sessions for a logged server in
the performance management database. Use this tool regularly to remove
unwanted recorded sessions and reduce database size.
•
Monitoring Administration enables you to change the monitoring
parameters of the monitored servers.
•
Set Performance Threshold enables you to modify the default threshold
values for processor, memory, NIC, storage, and PCI.
Options →Performance Management
Obtaining performance management documentation
See the HP Insight Control Performance Management User Guide for more information about configuring
and using performance management features to monitor your managed servers.
Insight Control documentation is available at the following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol/docs
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