HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

3. Click the Host Information tab on the Array View screen. The HP XP7 Performance Advisor
host-specific details appear in the Host Information table:
DescriptionScreen elements
Displays the system name of the host.Host
Displays the operating system installed on the host and
its current version.
OS
Displays the version of the host agent installed on the
host.
HA Version
Displays the RAID Manager Library version installed on
the host.
RMLib Version
Displays the status of the host update request as either
Requested or Received.
Status
To manually refresh the Host Information table, click Refresh Hosts. After the host agents appear
in the Host Information table, start collecting configuration and performance data for your XP,
P9500 and XP7 disk arrays. Click Request Info if you have made changes on the XP, P9000 or
the XP7 disk array connected to your host agent, such as creating a new command device or
re-installing the host agent. For more information, see “Using XP7 Performance Advisor” (page 92).
NOTE: When the host agents are installed, you can view the host agent installer log details in
the PA_HA_32Install_Script.log file located in the <system_drive>:\
XP7_PA_Install_Log folder, where <system_drive> is the drive on which the operating system
is installed.
Assigning GUIDs for command devices on a Windows host agent
To overcome device renaming and device remapping issues during data collection, HP recommends
that you use the Windows GUID (\\?\Volume{GUID}) to perform configuration and performance
data collection instead of using the device file names.
Complete the following steps to use the GUID:
1. Log on to the HP XP7 Performance Advisor host agent and stop the host agent and real-time
services. For steps to stop these services, see “Starting, stopping, and restarting host agent
services” (page 121).
2. From a command line, run the XPInfo –i, to display the list of all the command devices
(see “XPInfo –i command” (page 80)).
Figure 18 XPInfo –i command
3. Create a GUID on the command devices to perform data collection.
Complete the following steps:
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