HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 9)

1 Introduction
Overview
HP Insight Control performance management is a software solution that detects and analyzes hardware
bottlenecks on HP ProLiant servers and HP Integrity servers. Performance management provides the tools
needed to receive proactive notification of impending bottleneck conditions and debug existing performance
issues.
With Insight Control performance management, performance can be monitored on one or more servers. The
performance information is analyzed to determine if there is an impending or existing performance bottleneck
issue. This information can be interactively displayed using the Online Analysis tool or logged to a database
for later analysis or reporting using the Offline Analysis tool, and proactive notification can be set up using
the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) notification mechanism.
Insight Control performance management provides you with the following menu options that are accessible
from the Insight Control console:
•
Online and Offline Analysis :
For Online Analysis tool: From the Insight Control console Diagnose
→Performance
Management
→Online Analysis
For Offline Analysis tool: From the Insight Control console Diagnose
→Performance
Management
→Offline Analysis
•
Performance Management Reports (Static Analysis Report, System Summary Report, CSV
File Generator, and Server Availability Report)
:
For Static Analysis Report: From the Insight Control console Reports
→Performance
Management
→Static Analysis Report
For System Summary Report: From the Insight Control console Reports
→Performance
Management
→System Summary Report
For CSV File Generator: From the Insight Control console Reports
→Performance Management→CSV
File Generator
For Server Availability Report: From the Insight Control console Reports
→Performance
Management
→Server Availability Report
•
Performance Management Options (Hardware Specifications, Manual Log Purge, Monitoring
Administration, and Set Performance Threshold)
:
For Hardware Specifications: From the Insight Control console Options
→Performance
Management
→Hardware Specifications
For Manual Log Purge: From the Insight Control console Options
→Performance
Management
→Manual Log Purge
For Monitoring Administration: From the Insight Control console Options
→Performance
Management
→Monitoring Administration
For Set Performance Threshold: From the Insight Control console Options
→Performance
Management
→Set Performance Threshold
The Online Analysis tool for Insight Control performance management is an intelligent, easy-to-use tool
accessed from clients running Internet Explorer 7.0 or later. The tool can monitor servers running supported
versions of Windows and Linux. The web-based application allows the performance of any monitored server
to be monitored and analyzed in real-time on a remote client system. The Offline Analysis tool provides the
option to analyse the data at a later stage by logging it on to a database.
Various performance management reports, illustrating the percentage of time a system was in a bottleneck
state and the overall performance utilization for a system categorized by its components, can be generated
from the Performance Management Reports option. A System Summary report can be generated from the
data in the performance database in an HTML format. A CSV File Generator generates comma-separated
value (CSV) files for importing into desktop for analysis or onto other different reporting tools. A Static
Analysis report is an analysis of the hardware configuration for the server as a whole, identifying the potential
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