HP Caliper User Guide Release 5.5 (5900-2351, August 2012)

GUI item A graphical user interface (GUI) item such as a button or menu

name.

[] The contents are optional in syntax. If the contents are a list

separated by |, you must choose one of the items.

{} The contents are required in syntax. If the contents are a list

separated by |, you must choose one of the items.

... The preceding element can be repeated an arbitrary number of

times.

| Separates items in a list of choices.

Related Documents

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 for HP-UX Release Notes

• HP Caliper for Linux Release Notes

• HP Caliper Ktrace Features Guide

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

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◦ 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