HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Overview................................................................................................................................7
Structure..................................................................................................................................8
Protocol settings.......................................................................................................................8
Features..................................................................................................................................8
2 Licensing.................................................................................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
Supported licenses..................................................................................................................10
Licensing preparation..............................................................................................................10
Licensing servers.....................................................................................................................10
Licensing Insight Control performance management using HP SIM license manager.........................10
Adding licenses to the performance management database....................................................11
Applying licenses to a server...............................................................................................11
Licensing Insight Control performance management using the managed system setup wizard............11
Applying licenses to a server...............................................................................................12
Licensing virtual machine hosts.................................................................................................12
3 Monitoring server performance..................................................................13
Overview..............................................................................................................................13
Using the Performance Management interface............................................................................13
Opening the Insight Control console.....................................................................................13
Monitoring Administration page...............................................................................................14
Default performance management monitoring settings............................................................15
Setting performance management monitoring parameters.......................................................15
Number of samples............................................................................................................15
Sample rate......................................................................................................................15
Performance threshold........................................................................................................16
Log days...........................................................................................................................16
Control the display of the number of managed nodes.............................................................16
Manual Log Purge page..........................................................................................................16
Enabling virtual machine host and virtual machine guests logging.................................................17
4 Analyzing server performance...................................................................19
Overview..............................................................................................................................19
Online Analysis......................................................................................................................19
Performing Online Analysis.................................................................................................19
Offline Analysis......................................................................................................................20
Performing Offline Analysis.................................................................................................20
Reading the analysis information..............................................................................................21
System Details pane...........................................................................................................21
Server Configuration pane..................................................................................................22
Results pane......................................................................................................................22
Graphical display...................................................................................................................22
Expanding the local storage................................................................................................22
Displaying the controller.....................................................................................................23
Displaying the port.............................................................................................................23
Displaying the drive...........................................................................................................24
Displaying the inventory......................................................................................................24
5 Reports...................................................................................................26
Overview..............................................................................................................................26
Static Analysis report...............................................................................................................26
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