HP Caliper Linux Release Notes

4 Documentation and Other Information Resources
The complete HP Caliper documentation set contains the following:
• HP Caliper Quick Start
• HP Caliper User Guide
• HP Caliper Advisor Rule Writer Guide
• HP Caliper Ktrace Features Guide
• HP Caliper for HP-UX Release Notes
• HP Caliper for Linux Release Notes
You can get more information about HP Caliper in these ways:
• An HP Caliper man page is provided. Type: man caliper
• Help text:
To get short help text, type caliper -h or caliper -?.
To get long help text, type caliper -H or caliper --help.
• To get help in the HP Caliper GUI, in the Help menu, select:
— Help Contents for a listing of types of help you can see, including “getting
started” help and reference help
— Context-sensitive Help for help on windows in the GUI
• Useful information is available in the HP Caliper home directory. The default HP
Caliper home directory is /opt/caliper/ on HP-UX and /opt/hp-caliper/
on Linux. See these subdirectories:
— Documentation is located in the doc subdirectory.
— The doc/text subdirectory contains the help files for the textual report
descriptions as well as other useful information.
— Example files are located in the examples subdirectory.
• You can find the most recent software and information on the HP Caliper Web
site at:
http://hp.com/go/caliper
The Usage Notes at the HP Caliper Web site are a collection of technical notes explaining
details about HP Caliper and the performance monitoring unit (PMU) used in HP
Integrity servers. See these examples:
• Using HP Caliper to identify a CPU- or memory-related performance problem
• Using HP Caliper to perform bubble analysis on a simple example program
• Using HP Caliper to measure integer load latency
• Using HP Caliper to analyze effective floating-point load latency
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