HP 3PAR System Reporter 2.9 MU1 Software Release Notes (QL226-96229, September 2011)

MySQL is the recommended database. The MySQL database may be on a remote database
server host, not necessarily on the machine on which System Reporter is installed.
• Oracle (not included) must be obtained and installed separate from HP 3PAR System Reporter
2.9 Software. Oracle version 11g is supported. Performance of sample insertion with Oracle is
a little lower than that of MySQL but Oracle is also a good choice for large databases. The Oracle
database may be on a remote database server host, not necessarily on the machine on which
HP 3PAR System Reporter Software is installed. Note that 64-bit Red Hat Linux is not supported
if using Oracle since it requires a 32-bit Oracle Client to be installed and this is not supported
on 64-bit Linux.
HP 3PAR System Reporter Installation Notes
Detailed instructions are available in Chapter 3, Installation, Configuration, Update, and Removal of
the HP 3PAR System Reporter 2.9 Software User’s Guide. The CD now includes a spreadsheet for
sizing the system that will be used to run System Reporter and the database system.
To install and use System Reporter, a license is required for each HP 3PAR Storage System that is to
be sampled by System Reporter. If you plan to use Adaptive Optimization, you must also have an
additional license to take advantage of the storage optimization capabilities offered by this optional
component. If you do not have a license for Adaptive Optimization, the monitoring and system reporting
features are still accessible but the optimization capabilities are inactivated.
Prior to the System Reporter installation, the HP 3PAR InForm CLI for Windows and Linux must be
installed. Refer to the HP 3PAR InForm OS Command Line Interface for setting up the CLI client on the
host machine for Windows and Linux platforms.
If you choose to use Microsoft SQL, MySQL or Oracle instead of the default SQLite database, these
data bases must be installed and configured before installing HP 3PAR System Reporter as described
in Chapter 3 of the HP 3PAR System Reporter 2.9 Software User's Guide.
You must install Apache 2.0 (or later) before installing HP 3PAR System Reporter. A binary installation
package for Windows is included in the CD for your convenience. You may choose to download your
own Apache package from www.apache.org. Red Hat Linux includes packages for Apache.
Changes in HP 3PAR System Reporter 2.9 MU1 since 2.8
DescriptionItem
The option of using Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 as the repository database is provided
in this version.
Supports Microsoft SQL as the
repository database.
The new CPG report provides information on the free space available for the volumes
to grow within a CPG thus assisting customers with capacity monitoring and planning
capabilities.
Provides the ability to generate
reports on the free space available
for the volumes to grow for each
CPG.
The ability to send an email with a link to the location of a scheduled report once the
report has been generated is now provided.
Provides the ability to email the
location of scheduled reports.
The enhancement to Adaptive Optimization graph helps evaluate and identify
application profiles that stand to benefit from Adaptive Optimization.
Provides enhancements to the
Adaptive Optimization graph within
the Excel client.
The granularity for the retention period enables data to be retained for different periods
of time depending on the role and function of the HP 3PAR Storage Systems. This is
Provides the ability to set different
data retention periods for each of
helpful when collecting data on a particular HP 3PAR Storage System for performance
analysis or troubleshooting.
the arrays managed by System
Reporter.
Access to a currently unsupported charting package is included in this version and
offered as one of the formatting options (under Chart Lib) when generating a report.
Provides access to enhanced
charting capabilities.
To use the unsupported charting capabilities offered through this “Dynamic” charting
option, you must use a browser that supports html5 canvas tags (the latest versions of
Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome browsers currently offer this support).
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