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C Appendix C
Performance Advisor Configuration and Performance Data
Collection Prerequisites for Windows Operating System
To overcome device renaming and device remapping issues during data collection, it is recommended
to use the Windows globally unique identifier (\\?\Volume{GUID}) to perform configuration and
performance data collection instead of the using the device file names.
Complete the following steps to use the globally unique identifier for data collection process:
After installing the PA Windows hostagent, the host names appear in the
screen and the
Command Device file names appear in the
screen.
1.
Login to the PA XP hostagent and stop the host agent. For example,
Files\Hewlett-Packard\sanmgr\hostagent\sbin> hastop.bat
2.
In the command line, run the xpdevicemap command, to get the list of all the command devices,
as shown in .
Figure 82 xpdevicemap command
3.
Create a Globally Unique ID (GUID) on the command devices you wish to perform data collection.
Complete the following steps to create the GUID:
a.
Login to the PA hostagent as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
b.
Open the Computer Management console by clicking on Start —> Run —> compmgmt.msc
—> OK.
c.
Select Disk Management under Storage on the left menu tree.
d.
On the right pane, select a command device from the list of command devices displayed by
the xpdevicemap command as shown in . Right-click the command device and select New
Partition. The New Partition Wizard displays.
e.
Click Next and select Primary partition and click Next.
f.
Specify the size of the partition in the Partition size in MB box, and click Next.
g.
Click on Mount in the following NTFS Folder, and click Browse. Select the Mount Point and
click Next.
h.
Select Do not format this partition, and click Next.
i.
Click Finish. The selected command device is partitioned and has been assigned a GUID.
You can visit
ls on using Disk Management.
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