HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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Contents

1 Introduction to XPWatch ...................................................................... 9

Overview ................................................................................................................................... 9
XPWatch environment ................................................................................................................ 10

Software environment ......................................................................................................... 10
Hardware environment ........................................................................................................ 10

Functional representation ........................................................................................................... 10

2 Installing XPWatch ........................................................................... 13

Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 13
Installing XPWatch .................................................................................................................... 13
Uninstalling XPWatch ................................................................................................................ 16
Components ............................................................................................................................ 16

3 Working with XPWatch menus and commands .................................... 17

Commands .............................................................................................................................. 17
Menus ..................................................................................................................................... 18

Array menu ....................................................................................................................... 19
Host groups ....................................................................................................................... 20

Viewing Host groups .................................................................................................... 20
Selecting Host groups ................................................................................................... 20
Clearing Host groups ................................................................................................... 21

Nickname menu ................................................................................................................. 22

Assigning nicknames .................................................................................................... 23
Renaming nicknames ................................................................................................... 24
Deleting nicknames ...................................................................................................... 24

Port menu .......................................................................................................................... 25

Viewing Port menu ....................................................................................................... 26

Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme ............................................................................ 27

Viewing Pick LDEVs/RAID Groups selection scheme ......................................................... 27

RAID Group menu .............................................................................................................. 27

Viewing RAID Group menu ........................................................................................... 29

LDEV menu ........................................................................................................................ 29

Viewing LDEV menu ..................................................................................................... 30

Settings menu .................................................................................................................... 30

Menu settings .............................................................................................................. 30
Performance data collection settings ............................................................................... 31

4 Viewing performance metrics in XPWatch ............................................ 33

Collecting performance metrics ................................................................................................... 33
Understanding performance metrics ............................................................................................ 35

Port performance metrics ..................................................................................................... 35
LDEV performance metrics ................................................................................................... 36
RAID Group performance metrics ......................................................................................... 37
CPU performance metrics .................................................................................................... 37

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