HP Storage Essentials V5.1 Application Guide First Edition (T4283-96028, August 2006)

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6 Monitoring Sybase
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, monitoring Sybase instances may not be available. See
the "List of Features" to determine if you have access to monitoring Sybase instances. The "List of
Features" is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in
Storage Essentials).
This chapter describes the following:
• ”Monitoring Sybase Overview” on page 43
• ”Viewing Topology for Sybase” on page 44
• ”Viewing Events for Sybase” on page 48
• ”Viewing Properties” on page 48
• ”Viewing Topology for Sybase” on page 50
Monitoring Sybase Overview
Before you can monitor Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise you must:
• Have the license for monitoring Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise. To determine if your license
supports the monitoring of Sybase, see the "List of Features" The List of Features is accessible
from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
• Create APPIQ_USER account on the database to be managed.*
• Provide the database server name and port number.*
• Discover the application.*
*Refer to the Installation Guide for more information.
The management software for Sybase is a CIM-based application storage management solution
that lets you realize the benefits of networked storage by more effectively managing your
end-to-end Sybase infrastructure from a single, easy-to-use console. By integrating real time
information from storage devices, network components, servers and operating systems with the
application database, the management software for Sybase can improve your application's
performance, availability and reliability, and maximize your return on the applications storage
assets.
To help simplify the management of your Sybase storage, the management software for Sybase
provides comprehensive topology visualization from the Sybase database files to the mount point
to SAN switches to storage systems. This enables your storage and application administrators to
immediately visualize the interdependency of the infrastructure to the application. You will no
longer need to cross reference multiple spreadsheets and call multiple people to get an end-to-end
picture.
During periods of infrastructure downtime or other times of equipment failures, infrastructure
interdependencies are at your fingertips so you can make the correct split second decisions when
you are having issues with the infrastructure.