HP XP7 PA Software Installation Guide

immediately, and the next collection is 15 minutes later, at 10.27 a.m. The subsequent
collection take place every 15 minutes after that.
The Stagger Schedule ensures that the load on the management server is balanced, because
the data collection occurs for all the XP, P9000 and the XP7 disk arrays at varied points of
time in the day and not every 15 minutes of the hour.
10. Select the Add new RAID Groups, Ports to this schedule check box, if you want the performance
data collection schedule to automatically collect the performance data for the new RAID groups
or the ports that are discovered during the scheduled configuration data collection. If the Add
new RAID Groups, Ports to this schedule check box is selected in the first schedule, it is
automatically disabled in the second schedule.
However, the new ThP, snapshot, continuous access journal volumes, and the external RAID
groups are automatically added to that performance data collection schedule, which is already
collecting data for other virtual volumes that belong to the same XP or XP7 disk array.
11. Click Save for the changes to take effect.
Click Cancel, if you do not want to configure a schedule for the current selection.
Click Refresh to view the updated list of performance data schedules.
The new schedule starts automatically. The following table provides the subsequent changes that
occur in the Performance Data section for the selected XP, P9000 or the XP7 disk array record:
DescriptionScreen elements
Displays the new schedule name.Schedule Name
Displays the selected components. Click View to see the
corresponding schedule details.
Components
Displays , which indicates that the schedule has started.
Enabled
Initially, displays when a schedule is not yet configured,
or stopped.
Displays the selected frequency for the DKC, RAID groups,
and the port data collection.
Frequency
Initially, displays 0,0,0 when a schedule is not yet
configured.
Allow HP XP7 Performance Advisor to complete at least two performance data collection cycles
before you proceed with other related activities, such as generating reports and plotting charts.
98 Using HP XP7 Performance Advisor