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These components are applicable only when the server and client are installed together. When
installed individually, the contents of the directory vary, based on the component installed.

IMPORTANT:

When a controller reboots, the connection between the client to the server must

be reestablished.

The path failover feature, which provides a mechanism where, upon the failure of one
communication path between the HP P6000 Performance Data Collector server and the storage
system controller, there is an automatic failover to an alternate path for continued communication
with the controller.

HP P6000 Performance Data Collector server side logging of performance
and state data

This feature provides the functionality to collect the following data periodically and log it to a data
store:

EVA Performance information

EVA Configuration and State change information

All of the collected data is organized under a root directory with one subdirectory for each EVA
for which data is being collected.

Performance and state logs retrieval from HP P6000 Performance Data Collector
client

Historical performance and state change data can be retrieved through the HP P6000 Performance
Data Collector CLI.

Displaying historical state changes and performance data

The following command displays performance data and state changes for objects of a specified
type within the specified time range. The syntax is:

evaperf hist wwn object_type start_time end_time [object_id]

, where wwn

is the node WWN of the array.

Table 2 (page 71)

shows the valid values for object_type and the information displayed in the

output of the command.

Table 2 HP P6000 Performance Data Collector valid object_type values

Information displayed by the command

Value of object_type

Controller statistics

Cs

Array statistics

As

Virtual disk statistics

Vd

Physical disk statistics

Pd

Virtual disk group statistics

Vdg

Physical disk group statistics

Pdg

Host port statistics

Hps

Host connection statistics

Hc

DRM tunnel statistics

Drt

Virtual disk state changes

state_vdisk

Disk group state changes

state_diskgroup

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