HP Insight Global Workload Manager 6.0 Software: User Guide

Securing gWLM communications........................................................................................................31
Securing database communications......................................................................................................31
Securing Postgres communications.................................................................................................31
Securing Oracle communications....................................................................................................31
5 Additional configuration and administration tasks...................................................33
Manually adjusting CPU resources......................................................................................................33
Manually adjusting memory resources................................................................................................34
Setting aside space for historical data...................................................................................................34
Backing up the VSE Management Software database..........................................................................34
Tips for backup and restore.............................................................................................................35
Setting gWLM properties......................................................................................................................35
CMS properties ...............................................................................................................................35
Agent properties..............................................................................................................................37
Communications ports....................................................................................................................39
Controlling gWLM’s startup behavior..................................................................................................39
Automatic restart of gWLM’s managed nodes in SRDs (high availability).........................................40
How the automatic restart works....................................................................................................41
Related events..................................................................................................................................41
“Node Failed to Rejoin SRD on Start-up” event........................................................................41
“SRD Communication Issue” and “SRD Reformed with Partial Set of Nodes” events............42
Manually clearing an SRD...............................................................................................................42
Clearing an SRD of A.02.50.00.04 (or later) agents....................................................................42
Clearing an SRD of agents of any version..................................................................................42
Nesting partitions.................................................................................................................................44
Changing the gWLM resource allocation interval................................................................................45
Changing the interval in HP SIM....................................................................................................45
Changing the interval on the command line...................................................................................45
Using gWLM with Hyper-Threading...................................................................................................45
Using gWLM with hosts on multiple LANs.........................................................................................46
Creating “Golden Images”....................................................................................................................47
Multiple network interface cards..........................................................................................................47
Incorrectly configured host name or IP address...................................................................................48
Unable to create new native thread......................................................................................................49
6 Support and other resources.......................................................................................51
Contacting HP.......................................................................................................................................51
New and changed information in this edition.....................................................................................52
Related information..............................................................................................................................52
Typographic conventions......................................................................................................................52
A Compatibility with agents...........................................................................................55
B Global Workload Manager A.6.0.0.* Known issues.............................................57
Limitations............................................................................................................................................57
Unpredictable management when removing GiCAP group members..........................................57
Localization behaviors.....................................................................................................................57
Unable to manage partitions with inactive cells or deconfigured cores.........................................57
Unable to build a single shared resource domain...........................................................................57
Compatibility with PRM and WLM................................................................................................58
Rare incompatibility with virtual partitions...................................................................................58
Workloads in gWLM do not follow associated Serviceguard packages.........................................58
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