HP XP Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 72)

5 Configuring common settings for HP XP7 Performance
Advisor
This chapter discusses the following topics:
•
“Introduction” (page 72)
•
“Configuring email and SNMP settings” (page 73)
•
“Setting time zone for management station” (page 79)
•
“Setting severity level” (page 78)
•
“Registering
the XP or XP7 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP7 Performance Advisor” (page
77)
•
“Providing
user-friendly names for XP and XP7 disk arrays” (page 76)
In addition, this chapter also discusses the following topics:
•
“Managing custom groups” (page 83)
•
“Managing fabricated LDEV records” (page 89)
•
“Managing HP XP7 Performance Advisor user profiles” (page 93)
•
“Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time” (page 79)
•
“Receiving email notifications when HP XP7 Performance Advisor services fail” (page 80)
Introduction
HP XP7 Performance Advisor enables you to configure the commonly used settings, such as the
following:
Settings+PA Settings
“Configuring email and SNMP settings” (page 73)
Email notification for the alarms and reports generation, and
the data collection failure
Settings+Personalize
Arrays
“Providing
user-friendly names for XP and XP7 disk
arrays”
(page 76)
User-friendly
names for the XP and the XP7 disk arrays
Settings+Personalize
Arrays
“Registering
the XP or XP7 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP7
Performance
Advisor” (page 77)
Registration
of the XP and XP7 disk arrays with the
respective
array SVPs
Settings+User Settings
“Setting time zone for management station” (page 79)
Management station date and time to be in sync with the time
zone where it resides
Settings+User Settings
“Setting severity level” (page 78)
Severity level for logging the events, which HP XP7 Performance
Advisor uses to filter events and log only those that match the
set severity level
Settings+Custom Groups
“Managing custom groups” (page 83)
Manage custom groups, where you create, view, modify, or
delete the custom groups
Settings+Data Grid Update
“Managing fabricated LDEV records” (page 89)
Manage the fabricated LDEV records, where you modify or
delete the incomplete LDEV records, and also replicate settings
across the LDEV records
Settings+Security
“Managing HP XP7 Performance Advisor user profiles”
(page 93)
Manage HP XP7 Performance Advisor users profiles, where you
create, modify or delete the user profiles, and view their group
properties
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