HP XP Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction to HP XP7 Performance Advisor.................................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
2 Working with the HP XP7 Performance Advisor GUI......................................11
Introduction............................................................................................................................11
Title bar............................................................................................................................11
Left pane..........................................................................................................................12
Right pane........................................................................................................................13
Common tasks.......................................................................................................................13
Sorting records..................................................................................................................13
Resizing columns...............................................................................................................14
Resizing sections of HP XP7 Performance Advisor screens........................................................14
3 Managing licenses for XP and XP7 disk arrays.............................................16
Introduction............................................................................................................................16
License screen........................................................................................................................17
Instant-on license on HP XP7 Performance Advisor installation.......................................................19
Instant-on license activation.................................................................................................19
Instant-on license expiration.................................................................................................20
Grace period expiration.....................................................................................................21
HP XP7 Performance Advisor licenses........................................................................................22
Permanent licenses.............................................................................................................22
Meter Based Term licenses..................................................................................................23
Meter based Term license requirement.............................................................................24
Meter based Term license activation and consumption.......................................................25
Generating licenses at the HPAC license key website...................................................................30
Generating licenses............................................................................................................30
Installing licenses...............................................................................................................31
Viewing aggregate License status..............................................................................................33
Viewing status for individual licenses....................................................................................33
Viewing license history.......................................................................................................36
Exceeding Permanent licensed capacity and grace period...........................................................37
Exceeding Meter based Term licensed capacity and grace period................................................38
Violating licensed capacity......................................................................................................40
Removing licenses...................................................................................................................41
4 Collecting configuration and performance data............................................44
Introduction............................................................................................................................44
Array View screen..................................................................................................................45
Communicating with host agents..............................................................................................46
Requesting host agent updates.............................................................................................47
Removing host agent information from HP XP7 Performance Advisor.........................................48
Collecting configuration data...................................................................................................49
One-time configuration data collection.................................................................................52
Scheduling configuration data collection...............................................................................54
Configuration collection schedules...................................................................................57
Deleting configuration data collection schedules....................................................................57
Collecting performance data....................................................................................................58
Creating performance data collection schedules....................................................................62
Enabling performance collection schedules for automatic updates........................................66
Starting performance data collection in case of a disk failure..............................................68
Viewing performance data collection schedules.....................................................................68
Editing performance data collection schedules.......................................................................68
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