HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 4)

Stopping performance data collection schedules....................................................................69
Restarting performance data collection schedules...................................................................70
Deleting performance data collection schedules.....................................................................71
Setting the java heap size values.........................................................................................71
Setting the heap size for management station...................................................................71
Setting the heap size values for Windows and Unix host agents..........................................72
5 Configuring common settings for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor...............73
Introduction............................................................................................................................73
Configuring email and SNMP settings.......................................................................................74
Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9000 disk arrays.........................................................77
Registering the XP or P9000 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor...........78
Setting the severity level for events............................................................................................79
Setting time zone for management station..................................................................................80
Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time.................................................................80
Receiving email notifications when HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor services fail.........................81
Managing custom groups........................................................................................................84
Creating custom groups......................................................................................................85
Using custom group filters...............................................................................................85
Significance of creating custom groups.................................................................................86
Viewing custom group configurations....................................................................................87
Modifying custom groups....................................................................................................89
Editing custom groups....................................................................................................89
Deleting custom groups..................................................................................................90
Managing fabricated LDEV records...........................................................................................90
Viewing Data Grid Update screen........................................................................................90
Querying for fabricated LDEV records...................................................................................91
Modifying fabricated LDEV records......................................................................................92
Editing fabricated LDEV records......................................................................................92
Deleting fabricated LDEV records....................................................................................93
Using template..................................................................................................................93
Managing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor user profiles..........................................................94
Creating and editing user profiles........................................................................................94
Creating a user record...................................................................................................95
Changing password......................................................................................................95
Deleting a user record...................................................................................................95
Viewing group properties....................................................................................................96
6 Monitoring performance of XP and P9000 disk arrays..................................97
Introduction............................................................................................................................97
Configuring dashboard threshold settings................................................................................100
Specifying the top 20 consumers.......................................................................................102
Dashboard threshold metrics..................................................................................................103
Viewing dashboard..............................................................................................................106
XP/P9000 array health....................................................................................................107
Dashboard statistics.........................................................................................................108
Component levels in the Statistics section........................................................................110
Dashboard statistics and threshold metrics......................................................................110
Dashboard busiest consumers............................................................................................113
Dashboard charts............................................................................................................114
High watermark in dashboard charts..................................................................................115
7 Configuring alarms and managing events..................................................117
Introduction..........................................................................................................................117
Configuring alarms and viewing alarms history....................................................................117
Selecting components and metrics..........................................................................................119
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