HP StorageWorks P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.4 User Guide (T1789-96328, April 2012)

An individual chart window can accommodate the performance graphs for up to 250 components.
The 250 components that you select can belong to multiple component types and for different metrics
from the same metric category. Performance Advisor plots the performance graphs incrementally and
continues till the performance graphs for all the 250 components are plotted in the chart window. If
you select more than 250 components, the performance graphs for the remaining set of components
(beyond 250) are plotted in the subsequent chart window that automatically appears in the Chart
Work Area. During the process of plotting the performance graphs, the Loading charts...please
wait message is displayed on the bottom right corner of the Chart Work Area. You can click Stop
during the process to discontinue the plotting of performance graphs. Performance Advisor completes
the current request and then stops the plotting operation.
In addition, the following are also displayed in each chart window:
• Total number of components for which the performance graphs are plotted
• Individual legends in the Legends list. Each component is given a unique color coding in the Legends
list that you can map to the corresponding data points plotted in the chart window. Click a legend
associated with a component to hide or view its corresponding performance graph in the chart
window.
• Legends check box that you can select based on whether you want the legends list to appear in
the particular chart window. This action overrides the Legends check box selection in the Chart
Work Area.
NOTE:
Though the Legends check box is selected, the Legends list is displayed only for 30 components.
If the display of legends cannot be accommodated in the given chart window, a vertical scroll bar
appears for the Legends list.
The following are important notes on chart windows:
• Separate chart windows appear if the metrics selected belong to different metric categories.
• Single chart window appears if the metrics selected belong to the same metric category.
• If the chart window for the selected metric category already exists, the performance graphs for
the selected components are automatically added to that chart window. However, you can also
view the performance graphs of components for related metrics in different chart windows. It is
useful if you want to compare performance of components for the same component type and
metric category. To plot different chart windows, do either of the following:
• Manually clear the active chart window selection by clicking the title pane of the chart window.
• Add a new chart window. For more information, see “Adding new chart windows” on page 305.
In both the above-mentioned cases, the new chart window takes precedence and becomes the
active chart window. Though the metrics selected for the next set of components belongs to
the same metric category, the related performance graphs are automatically plotted in the new
chart window.
• If the existing chart window is not selected and you want to use the same chart window to add
the performance graph of a new component for a related metric, do the following:
1. Click the title pane of the existing chart window.
2. Choose components from the component selection tree and related metrics from the Available
Metrics Choose Metric Category list.
• If a chart window does not exist for the selected metric category in the Chart Work Area, a new
chart window is automatically added.
• You can align the different chart windows vertically or horizontally in the Chart Work Area.
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