HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.2 Getting Started Guide

With Application Discovery, you can do the following:
• Discover the location and number of recognized, running, and installed applications in your
network or data center.
• Monitor the activity and resource usage of running processes and applications.
• Define and adapt application templates to your environment for better discovery of your
third-party and custom applications, and to make them available for adding to monitored
workloads.
• Select the event types for which you want to receive notifications and set their level of
importance.
For more information about Application Discovery, see the Application Discovery User Guide,
available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM)
This application improves both workload performance and resource utilization in a shared computing
environment. For servers partitioned with nPartitions, virtual partitions, virtual machines, PSETS, or
FSS groups, gWLM can do the following:
• Monitor each application.
• Determine the CPU resources needed by each application.
• Automatically migrate CPU resources between partitions to where they are needed most. This
migration improves application performance by making more resources available to the
application at times of peak demand. In addition, migrating idle resources to the applications
that are busy increases processor utilization.
To access gWLM from the Matrix OE visualization screen, click the Shared Resource Domain tab
or select one of the items under Tools→Global Workload Manager from the Matrix OE visualization
menu bar.
For more information about gWLM, see the HP Global Workload Manager User Guide, available
at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
HP Instant Capacity software
The Instant Capacity Manager (iCAP Manager) is a web-based interface that can be used to
monitor your Instant Capacity environment. There are several screens available in iCAP Manager,
including an overview of the Instant Capacity resources available, a Global Instant Capacity
(GiCAP) group manager screen to provide more insight into the group managers, and detail screens
for GiCAP groups and Instant Capacity complexes and hosts.
You can get to iCAP Manager in either of the following ways:
• From the Matrix OE Visualization tab, click the Instant Capacity technology link associated
with any managed system that has Instant Capacity components, TiCAP capacity, or is a
member of a GiCAP group.
• Select Tools→Instant Capacity Manager from the Matrix OE visualization menu bar.
For more information about Instant Capacity software, see the iCAP Manager help.
Partition Manager
Partition Manager provides system administrators with a convenient graphical user interface to
configure and manage nPartitions on HP servers. Using Partition Manager, you can perform
configuration tasks without having to remember commands and parameters. You select nPartitions,
cells, I/O chassis or other components from the graphical display, then select an action from a
menu.
You can use Partition Manager to perform the following tasks:
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