HP Insight Global Workload Manager 6.0 Software: User Guide

Viewing HP Systems Insight Manager events
gWLM allows you to configure a number of events you can monitor through HP SIM. Set these
events in HP SIM as follows:
1. From the HP SIM menu bar, select:
Tools→Virtualization Manager...
2. Click the Shared Resource Domain tab.
3. From the VSE Management menu bar, select:
Tools→Global Workload Manager→Events…
After configuring these events, you can monitor them through the various Events items in the
left pane of HP SIM. Also, the Shared Resource Domain View provides links to any uncleared
gWLM events, filtering out all other events.
Monitoring gWLM with GlancePlus
You can use HP’s optional performance and monitoring tool GlancePlus to view data on workloads
based on fss groups that are managed by gWLM. (Use GlancePlus C.03.35.00 or later. Also, you
must have the bundle PRMLibraries C.03.03 or later installed. This bundle is available from
http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot.)
GlancePlus has both a text interface (glance) and an X-Windows interface (gpm).
Items to be aware of when using GlancePlus:
• Data is displayed only for workloads based on fss groups. Data for the workload with FSS
ID 0 is shown without a name.
• gWLM workloads are referred to as “PRM Groups” in GlancePlus.
• The workload names displayed by GlancePlus might vary slightly from those used in gWLM
due to differences in characters allowed in names.
• GlancePlus data is in terms of shares percentages of CPU resources, whereas gWLM data
is in terms of physical cores.
• GlancePlus and gWLM use different methods for gathering resource utilization, so data
between the products does not always match.
• Data is not displayed for more than 64 workloads.
30 Monitoring workloads and gWLM