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

Additional HP Caliper Commands
In addition to the caliper measurement command, there are three more HP Caliper commands
you can use. For information about these commands, including required syntax, see the references
below:
• caliper info
Displays reference information about the CPU counters or reports. See “How to Display
Reference Information About CPU Counters or HP Caliper Report Types” (p. 101).
• caliper report | merge | diff
Creates a report from an HP Caliper database. See “Creating Reports from Multiple Databases”
(p. 115).
• caliper advise
Invokes the HP Caliper Advisor, a rules-based expert system to give guidance about improving
the performance of an application. See “Using the HP Caliper Advisor” (p. 76).
Getting Information About HP Caliper
You can get more information about HP Caliper in these ways:
• An HP Caliper man page is provided. Type: man caliper
• 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 reference help◦
◦ Context-sensitive Help for context-sensitive help
• 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:
◦ Documentation is located in the doc subdirectory.
◦ The doc/text subdirectory contains the help files for the textual report descriptions and
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
30 Getting Started with the HP Caliper Command-Line Interface