About this document, Intended audience, Document organization – HP XC System 3.x Software User Manual
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About This Document
This document describes how to install and use the HPCPI and Xtools performance analysis
tools on Linux systems running on HP Integrity Servers.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for programmers with Linux experience and knowledge of Intel®
Itanium® or AMD Opteron™ processor architecture.
Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
This chapter provides an overview of the product
components.
Chapter 2: “Installing HPCPI and
Xtools”
This chapter describes how to install the product
components.
Chapter 3: “Getting Started with
HPCPI”
This chapter shows a simple HPCPI user session with the
basic HPCPI utilities and features.
This chapter describes how to start HPCPI and collect and
analyze HPCPI data.
Chapter 5: “Using HPCPI Labels”
This chapter describes how to use HPCPI labels, which
enable you to select HPCPI data according to process
characteristics.
Chapter 6: “Using HPCPI on an HP
XC Cluster”
This chapter describes additional tasks and features to use
with HPCPI in an HP XC cluster.
This chapter describes how to use Xtools (the GUI utilities
xclus
, xcxclus, xperf, and xcxperf).
Appendix A: “Product
Specifications”
This appendix contains file information and other reference
information.
Appendix B: “HPCPI Quick
Reference”
This appendix contains quick reference information for
HPCPI.
Appendix C: “Xtools Quick
Reference”
This appendix contains quick reference information for
Xtools.
Typographic Conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
%
, $, or #
A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar
sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and
POSIX shells. A number sign represents the superuser prompt.
audit(5)
A manpage. The manpage name is audit, and it is located in
Section 5.
Command
A command name or qualified command phrase.
Computer output
Text displayed by the computer.
Ctrl+x
A key sequence. A sequence such as Ctrl+x indicates that you
must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while you press another
key or mouse button.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
The name of an environment variable; for example, PATH.
[ERROR NAME]
The name of an error, usually returned in the errno variable.
Intended Audience
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