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

Scheduling configuration data collection ............................................................................... 65
Configuration collection schedules ................................................................................. 69
Deleting configuration data collection schedules ..................................................................... 70
Collecting performance data ...................................................................................................... 71
Creating performance data collection schedules ..................................................................... 73
Enabling performance collection schedules for automatic updates ...................................... 78
Starting performance data collection in case of a disk failure ............................................ 80
Viewing performance data collection schedules ...................................................................... 80
Editing performance data collection schedules ....................................................................... 81
Stopping performance data collection schedules .................................................................... 81
Restarting performance data collection schedules ................................................................... 82
Deleting performance data collection schedules ..................................................................... 82
Setting the java heap size values .......................................................................................... 83
Setting the heap size for management station .................................................................. 83
Setting the heap size values for Windows and Unix host agents ......................................... 84
5 Configuring common settings for P9000 Performance Advisor ................ 87
Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 87
Configuring email and SNMP settings ......................................................................................... 88
Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9000 disk arrays ........................................................... 92
Registering the XP or P9000 disk array SVP IP address in P9000 Performance Advisor ...................... 92
Setting the severity level for events ............................................................................................... 94
Setting time zone for management station .................................................................................... 95
Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time ................................................................... 96
Receiving email notifications when P9000 Performance Advisor services fail ..................................... 96
Managing custom groups .......................................................................................................... 99
Creating custom groups .................................................................................................... 100
Using custom group filters ........................................................................................... 101
Significance of creating custom groups ................................................................................ 101
Viewing custom group configurations .................................................................................. 102
Modifying custom groups .................................................................................................. 104
Editing custom groups ................................................................................................ 104
Deleting custom groups .............................................................................................. 105
Managing fabricated LDEV records ........................................................................................... 106
Viewing Data Grid Update screen ...................................................................................... 106
Querying for fabricated LDEV records ................................................................................. 107
Modifying fabricated LDEV records ..................................................................................... 108
Editing fabricated LDEV records ................................................................................... 108
Deleting fabricated LDEV records ................................................................................. 109
Using template ................................................................................................................. 110
Managing P9000 Performance Advisor user profiles ................................................................... 110
Creating and editing user profiles ....................................................................................... 111
Creating a user record ............................................................................................... 111
Changing password ................................................................................................... 112
Deleting a user record ................................................................................................ 112
Viewing group properties .................................................................................................. 113
6 Monitoring performance of XP and P9000 disk arrays ........................ 115
Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 115
Configuring dashboard threshold settings .................................................................................. 118
Specifying the top 20 consumers ........................................................................................ 121
Dashboard threshold metrics .................................................................................................... 122
Viewing dashboard ................................................................................................................. 124
XP/P9000 array health ..................................................................................................... 126
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