HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software Installation Guide Abstract This document describes how to install and configure the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software. This document is intended for users and HP service providers who have knowledge of the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and P9000 disk arrays hardware, software, and storage systems. For the latest release information on this product, see the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software Release Notes.
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Contents 1 Overview of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.............................................6 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor resources...............................................................................6 Installation work flow................................................................................................................7 Upgrade work flow...................................................................................................................
Verifying installed JRE version..............................................................................................65 Configuring HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor related settings...............................................65 Launching HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.......................................................................66 Viewing product license entitlement certificate for existing customers.........................................
12 Installing Oracle patches and security updates..........................................115 13 Support and other resources...................................................................118 Contacting HP......................................................................................................................118 Related information...............................................................................................................118 Typographic conventions .......................
1 Overview of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software (HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor) is a web-based application that collects, monitors, and displays the performance of your XP and P9000 disk arrays.
Figure 1 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor setup Additionally, the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor also provides HP XP P9000Watch, HP XP P9000Sketch, and HP XP P9000Info. For a brief description of these tools, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor utilities” (page 9). Installation work flow In a typical installation, you need to install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on the management station followed by the host agents on the respective hosts.
Figure 2 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation work flow In “Installation work flow” (page 7), the CLUI, HP XP P9000Watch, HP XP P9000Sketch, and HP XP P9000Info are additional utilities provided with HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor utilities” (page 9) provides a brief description of these utilities.
on the installation and use of the CLUI, HP XP P9000Watch, and HP XP P9000Sketch, see the respective documentation. For document download location, see “Related information” (page 118). IMPORTANT: The CLUI, HP XP P9000Watch, HP XP P9000Sketch, and HP XP P9000Info are available in the Tools folder on the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation disk 2.
5. 6. 7. 8. 9. before the upgrade was initiated, generate and add new licenses in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor to continue monitoring those disk arrays. Verify the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor functionality for historic data by plotting charts, and see if you are able to view the previous set of collections. Complete the prerequisites to upgrade the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents. Upgrade the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents on the respective hosts.
Figure 3 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor upgrade work flow Upgrade work flow 11
2 Understanding the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation prerequisites This chapter describes the prerequisites to install the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor software and the host agents, and explains the installation checklist. For more information, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist” (page 20). To upgrade an existing version of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents upgrade checklist” (page 103).
• Post Upgrade, after upgrading HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor • Post Uninstallation, after uninstalling HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Pre installation scenario If HP XP P9000 Installation Assistant detects that HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is not installed on the system, then the Pre-Install tab is enabled, and the following tests are performed: Figure 4 HP XP P9000 Installation Assistant — Pre-Install tab • Target Operating System check: Verifies whether the target operating system is compatib
• Default tomcat ports check: Verifies whether Port 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS) are free, else displays a warning message. • Incompatible software check: Verifies whether IIS Admin service is up and running. If the service is up and running, the tool displays an error message. Displays a warning message if the IIS service is installed but not started. Post installation scenario If HP XP P9000 Installation Assistant detects that HP XP P9000 PA v5.
• Hard disk space check: Verifies whether 64 GB free space is available in the PADB location and also verifies whether 8 GB free space is available in the Performance Advisor install location, else displays a warning message. • Physical memory check: Verifies whether 1 GB of physical memory is available on the system, else displays a warning message. • PA database check: Verifies the connection to Oracle database. If connection is not possible, the tool displays an error message.
Figure 6 HP XP P9000 Installation Assistant — Pre-Upgrade tab 16 • PA version check: Verifies whether the version of Performance Advisor is suitable to upgrade to PA v5.5, that is, if the installed version is older than two versions, the tool displays an error message. • Installed PA Services Status check: Verifies whether the following Performance Advisor services are installed and are running, else displays an error message.
• PA database check: Verifies the connection to Oracle database. If connection is not possible, the tool displays an error message. During this check, the tool uses the PADB_HOME variable to connect to Oracle database to ensure that the value of the variable is correct. If the Oracle database is not initialized, the tool recommends to run oracledb helper tool. • Database version check: Connects to Oracle database and verifies whether the Oracle database version is suitable for upgrade.
◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Security ◦ HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Tomcat • PA environment variables check: Verifies whether PADB_HOME and HPSS_HOME environment variables are created and do not contain trailing slash, else displays an error message. • Hard disk space check: Verifies whether 64 GB free space is available in the PADB location, else displays a warning message.
Figure 8 HP XP P9000 Installation Assistant — Post-Uninstall tab • PA Services Status check: Verifies whether the following Performance Advisor services are uninstalled, else displays an error message.
This checklist is also available when you begin installation. For more information, see “Launching the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor checklist” (page 48). The 1. 2. 3. installation checklist contains prerequisites and tasks that you must address before: Installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on a management station. Installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents on the respective hosts.
Table 2 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist (continued) Design the infrastructure for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. For more information, see “Designing the infrastructure” (page 23). Determine the coexistence for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor with other storage products. For more information, see “Determining the coexistence with other storage products” (page 27).
Table 2 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist (continued) Create the command devices on your XP and P9000 disk arrays, and assign them to the host agents. For more information, see “Creating and assigning command devices to host agents” (page 39). IMPORTANT: If you are currently using the RAID Manager (Business Copy and Continuous Access Synchronous), you already have command devices that can be used by an HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agent.
Table 2 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist (continued) IMPORTANT: After installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents, return to this checklist to complete the remaining prerequisites and tasks to use HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. After installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents Verify if the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent services have started.
Collecting information about the XP and the P9000 disk arrays that you will monitor 1. 2. Determine the number of logical devices (LDEVs) for each XP and P9000 disk arrays. Determine how frequently you want to access data from the XP and the P9000 disk arrays. IMPORTANT: The rate of data collection can affect the loads seen by the XP and the P9000 disk arrays, and the management station.
For collecting DKC and the port data, you must set the data collection frequency to 10 minutes. • To estimate management station's disk volume space required for the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor database: ◦ HP recommends that there be at least a week's historic data available when you are forecasting using charts or alarms. ◦ Determining disk space requirements: Use the following formula to determine the disk space requirements for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on a daily basis.
Example 1 Determining the disk space requirements for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Consider that the HP XP P9000 and the XP disk arrays, P9500 and XP24000 are monitored by the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor management station.
collection occurs for all the XP and the P9000 disk arrays not every 15 minutes of the hour, but at varied points of time in the day.
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor + HP Storage Essentials • HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Host Agent + Command View AE • HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor cannot coexist with applications that do not allow different application-specific Oracle database instances to coexist. For example, HP Storage Essentials does not allow another Oracle database instance to coexist with its specific instance.
NOTE: For additional database operations, HP recommends that 50 GB of free space be available on the drive where the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor database (PADB) will be installed.
Getting the fully qualified domain name or IP address of your management station The fully qualified domain name consists of ([servername].[domain name]). To get the fully qualified domain name or the IP address of your management station: 1. Open the command prompt window on your management station. 2. Type ipconfig /all at the prompt.
Windows System Authentication The Windows System Authentication is required in the following case: 1. Your management station belongs to a Windows domain. 2. Your HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor users are a combination of local system users and group of users who belong to the same, or different domains. OR Your HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor users are a combination of local system users or group of users who belong to the same, or different domains.
IMPORTANT: • Note the LDAP Distinguished Names (DN)s for the StorageAdmins and StorageUsers groups. An LDAP group used with HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor must have the DNs of the group members available in an attribute of the group. • Note the UserBaseDN and GroupBaseDN required for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor to allow authentication and authorization of users. ◦ UserBaseDN is the location in the LDAP tree that contains all the user entries.
Example 2 VSA added to User_1 profile in the HP XP P9000 PA administrators group: Vendor_ID=11 SubAttributeType=1 Attribute Value= XPPA: role=administrator (For HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor administrators: XPPA: role=administrator) Example 3 VSA added to User_2 profile in the HP XP P9000 PA users group: Vendor_ID=11 SubAttributeType=1 Attribute Value= XPPA: role=user (For HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor users: XPPA: role=user) For more information on implementing the above-mentioned types of authenticati
Description Microsoft Loopback Adapter Physical Address 02-00-4C-4F-4F-50 DHCP Enabled No IP Address 169.254.25.129 Subnet Mask 255.255.0.0 For more information on configuring Loopback Adapters, see “Installing a Loopback Adapter” (page 121). Static IP address To assign a static IP address, do the following: 1. Right-click My Network Places and select Properties. 2. In the Network Connections window, right-click the network that you are using and select Properties from the pop-up list. 3.
IMPORTANT: • If Adobe Flash Player v9.0.115.0 or later is installed on your management station, it blocks commonly reserved ports as a security measure to prevent unauthorized activities. If a port number is specified at the end of a URL, it is verified against the list of commonly reserved ports. If the port number matches any entry in the list, the network request will be rejected and a securityError event will be logged.
The last column of the output from the above command is the process identifier (PID), denoted by . In the example output, the PID is 804. To forcibly terminate the process which is using the port, execute the following command: TASKKILL /F /PID Following is an example for terminating the process that is using port 80: TASKKILL /F /PID Where, is replaced by the process identifier of the task currently using port 80.
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agent prerequisites This section describes the following host agent prerequisites that you must complete before installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents: • “Verifying the supported configurations for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents” (page 37) • “Configuring settings on Windows and UNIX hosts” (page 38) • “Creating and assigning command devices to host agents” (page 39) • “Mapping command devices” (page 42) • “Verifying host agent co
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1. 2. You must have a root or superuser access to the host. Configure the root or superuser account to allow remote access via the FTP services by completing the following steps: a. Run the /usr/sbin/ntsysv command and enable wu-ftpd b. Edit /etc/pam.d/ftp by commenting out the line with #: auth required /lib/security/pam_listfile.so item=user sense=deny file=/etc/ftpusers onerr=succeed c. Edit /etc/ftp users by removing or commenting out the line with #: root d.
NOTE: • For the XP24000/XP20000/XP12000/XP10000 Disk Array, configure the command devices as SLPR0 to report the full SLPR data. • For the XP24000 Disk Array and the P9000 disk arrays, you can also configure the ThP VVols as command devices. • The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows and UNIX host agents can coexist with the RAID Manager. For further assistance, contact HP Technical Support.
NOTE: The LDEV CONFIG button in the LDEV Information display area is enabled only when you select a LDEV from the LDEV list. 5. In the LDEV Information display area, click LDEV CONFIG to enable the selected LDEV as a command device.
5. 6. 7. 8. In the pop-up list that appears, select Edit Command Devices. In the Edit Command Devices window that appears, click Enable for the following: • Command Device • Command Device Security • User Authentication • Device Group Definition Click Next. Enter a name for the task that the HP XP P9000 Remote Web Console creates. The task name can be a maximum of 32 alphanumeric characters. The LDEV record that you selected are displayed in the Selected LDEVs table.
12. Select the LDEV record from the list in the Available LDEVs table. You must be aware of the LDEV that is already chosen as a command device and which is associated with the selected port and host group. 13. Click Add. The selected LDEV record appears in the Selected LDEVs table. 14. Click Finish.
7. Retain the default selections on the subsequent screens. The Ready to Complete dialog box displays your current selection. 8. Click Finish. If you want to modify the current selection, click Back. The new hard disk is added to the Hardware list. You can proceed with the host agent installation. You can start requesting host updates and performing configuration and performance data collection.
3 Installing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor This chapter describes the process of installing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on a management station.
3. The installation wizard verifies the following on your management station and takes the appropriate action: • If Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or later is installed. If Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 or later is not installed, a message appears displaying that the required version is not available. Click OK on the message dialog box for the installation wizard to install Microsoft .NET Framework v3.5 (recommended version).
Read through the instructions displayed on the Welcome installation window. • To proceed with the installation, you must complete a set of installation prerequisites and tasks provided in a checklist that appears when you click Launch Checklist. For more information, see “Launching the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor checklist” (page 48).
Launching the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor checklist To launch the installation or upgrade checklist, click Launch Checklist on the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Welcome installation window, one of the following checklists appear: • The installation checklist appears, if the installation wizard has not detected an existing version of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor on the management station. This checklist guides you through the installation of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
2. Click Next. The Next button is enabled only when you select the check box. The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation wizard verifies the available free disk space on your management station. If not enough free disk space is available, the installation wizard prompts you to free up the disk space and retry the installation. Upon clicking OK, the installation wizard exits. • If enough free disk space is available and if it is an upgrade, the process begins.
Table 7 Maximum size configured for Oracle related files for upgrade from previous version (continued) PA Versions PA 5.2 PA 5.3 PA 5.4 For TEMP01.DBF, the maximum size should be set to 16 GB. No Yes Yes Complying with the End User License Agreement To review the license agreement and proceed with the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation: 1. Read the agreement displayed under the End User License Agreement (EULA). 2.
1. 2. Click Change, do one of the following: ◦ Browse to the folder in the Change Location window ◦ Enter the path to the folder in the Folder Name text box Click OK. The Install Database to displays the updated database location. TIP: For optimal performance, HP recommends that you place the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor database on a disk volume other than where HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is installed. Click Next to proceed. The IPv6 Configuration installation window appears.
Implementing the authentication method Based on the authentication method you want for HP XP P9000 performance Advisor users, select the respective option from the following list displayed on the Authentication Configuration installation window: • HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Native Authentication. For more information on implementing, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Native Authentication” (page 52). • Windows System Authentication.
screens, HP Storage Administrators can also create and schedule new reports, modify existing reports, generate reports, and manage database configuration. After installing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor for the above-mentioned authentication type and if you have administrator privileges on your local system, add yourself and other local users, domain users or groups to the HP Storage Admin and the HP Storage Users groups appropriately.
1. Enter the required Server and Connection values. “LDAP server connection settings” (page 54) provides the description for each of the fields under the Server and Connection sections. Table 8 LDAP server connection settings Screen elements Description Server Address box and Port box Network name (or IP address) and Port # of the LDAP server to be used for authentication. The default port # is 636 for LDAP when SSL is enabled. The default port # is 389 for LDAP when SSL is not enabled.
Configuring the LDAP user search and filter, and group settings To configure the LDAP user search and filter settings, and group settings: Implementing the authentication method 55
1. Enter the required HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor User Search and Filter Settings and HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Group Settings. “LDAP server User Search and Filter, and Group settings” (page 56) provides the description for the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor User Search and Filter Settings and HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Group Settings fields.
Table 9 LDAP server User Search and Filter, and Group settings (continued) Screen elements Description • Default filter for OpenLDAP: (&(|(uid={USERNAME})(cn={USERNAME}))(o bjectClass={Username} {Username} is the placeholder, that will be replaced with the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor user’s name whose account should be authenticated and authorized. Group Base DN box Base DN in the LDAP DIT for all the groups. This is the path in the LDAP directory where all groups are located.
1. Enter the required server connection values. “RADIUS server connection settings” (page 58) provides the description for each of the RADIUS fields. NOTE: Among the following settings, only the server address and shared secret values must be provided. The remaining values are pre-populated and should not be modified.
Table 10 RADIUS server connection settings (continued) 2. Screen elements Description Retry Count box The maximum number of authentication attempts for a user to log in (default value: 3). Timeout Value box The duration of time (in milliseconds) before timing out on an authentication attempt. (Default value: 3000). Click Next to proceed. The Choose Setup Type installation window appears. For more information on the next set of steps, see “Selecting complete or custom installation method” (page 59).
IMPORTANT: • ◦ After installing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor, the host agents, CLUI, HP XP P9000Watch, and the HP XP P9000Sketch are available in the :\HPSS\pa\tomcat\webapps\pa\tools folder on your management station. ◦ The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents are also available on the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor installation disk 2.
In addition, you can also do the following: • Choose a location on your management station to install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. By default, the Install to: displays the location as :\HPSS\. Select another folder on the default or a different disk volume and the folder location on your management station. To manually select a different installation location: 1. Click Change, do one of the following: 2.
Figure 15 Configure Custom Setup installation window A pop-up dialog box appears displaying the different installation types. 3. Select the type of installation that you want. The following installation options are available: This feature will be installed on the local drive (disk volume). This feature and all the sub features, will be installed on the local drive. This feature will be installed on the first use (only if the feature supports this option). This feature will not be installed.
1. Click the + sign or the down arrow beside the Tools menu to view the following HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor tools: • HP XP P9000Sketch • HP XP P9000Watch • HP XP P9000Info • CmdLineUserInterface By default, CmdLineUserInterface (CLUI) software is copied to the location where HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is installed. 2. Repeats steps 2 and 3 from the procedure for “Selecting HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents” (page 61). Click Next to proceed.
• HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Tomcat • HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Monitor To confirm whether the above-mentioned services have started, see “Confirming the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor services” (page 64). IMPORTANT: The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Monitor service periodically monitors the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor tomcat and database services, and dispatches appropriate email notifications that provide the status of these services.
NOTE: The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Database Job Scheduler and HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Database VSS Writer Service are shipped with Oracle, but they are not necessary to use for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. 3. Close the Services dialog box. After confirming that the major services have started, configure any pre-launch settings, as applicable on your management station or the system from where you want to launch HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
4. 5. Enter the following details for the user in the popup window that appears: • The name of the new user and a brief description about the user profile. • A password. • Confirm the password. • Assign the user to a group. The Select a Group list displays Administrators and StorageAdmins (read and write access), and Users (read access) privileges. Click OK to create the user. A new user record appears under Users. By default, records are sorted in an alphabetical order.
1. Open a new IE browser window. If you are accessing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor locally on your management station or remotely over a secure connection, enter one of the following http addresses in the browser address line (the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor URL is case-sensitive): • Server name followed by /pa for accessing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor locally on the management station.
Based on the license entitlement certificate that you receive, generate and install a Permanent license for the internal raw disk capacity, or the usable capacity, that you want P9500 Performance Advisor to monitor. Generating and adding licenses To generate and add the Permanent license key file, complete the following steps: 1. Access the Hewlett-Packard Authorization Center (HPAC) license key website, http:// webkey.external.hp.com/ from your IE browser. 2.
8. Click Next >> to confirm the details. The Certificate screen appears and provides the license details. You can do the following on the Certificate screen: 9. • Click Save to print a copy of the certificate. • Click Keyfile to save the license file as a .dat file on your system. • Click Email to send a copy of the license certificate and the key file to the intended recipient. Add the Permanent license to HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor: a. Log on to HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
the TB-Days that you want to use when entering the registration number. For example, if you have a Meter based Term LTU for 100TB-Days and you want to use only 25TB-Days, enter 25 as the TB-Days. You are provided a license key that can be used for 25TB-Days. You can use the remaining 75TB-Days later for the same or a different P9000 disk array. The TB-Days of Meter based Term license that you generate are bound to the P9000 disk array serial number when the license key is generated.
Table 11 License management during installation or upgrade (continued) Installation or upgrade License management When you upgrade HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor from v5.3 or later versions to v5.5, and the following are detected: HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor continues to be in that state until the grace period expires or you generate a Permanent license for the monitored XP or P9000 disk arrays.
4 Installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents This chapter describes the process to install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows and UNIX host agents.
8. Install or upgrade the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents on the respective operating system hosts.
Enabling IPv6 and configuring HTTP port for the Windows host agent Enable your HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent to use IPv6 as the communication protocol, if the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is also enabled for IPv6. Ensure that both the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents communicate using the same protocol, either IPv4 or IPv6. Also, configure the HTTP port that the host agent should use to communicate with HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
the Windows GUID (\\?\Volume{GUID}) is created and assigned to command devices on the Windows host. NOTE: These verification tests only help you to verify if the details provided are accurate. Even if the tests are not successful, the host agent installation does not stop. You can rectify the errors and proceed with the installation, or complete the installation and then resolve the validity and connectivity issues.
1. 2. 3. Open the paxp_service.properties file from the :\ Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\xppa\hostagent\config folder on your host system. If it is a custom install location, the file is available in the :\\hostagent\config folder. Edit the following fields based on which one has an incorrect entry: ◦ ManagementStation.Hostname=, where you provide a valid DNS or IP address. ◦ http.
In addition to the above-mentioned, you can also do the following: ◦ View the description for each program feature that you want to install. Clicking a program feature displays a brief description and the amount of disk space required to install it, in the Feature Description frame. ◦ Choose a location on your host to install the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agent.
Based on whether you have performed an installation or upgrade, do one of the following: • Return to the installation checklist to complete the remaining checklist items. For more information, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist” (page 20). • Return to the upgrade checklist to complete the remaining checklist items. For more information, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents upgrade checklist” (page 103).
3. Untar the host agent .tar file: tar -xvf XPPA_HA_.tar 4. Run the installation script: unix_local_install.sh The installation script, for UNIX hosts, displays a series of prompts. Respond to these prompts as appropriate for your environment. 5. Click Y to continue. Enabling the UNIX host agent to use IPv6 Enable your HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor UNIX host agent to use IPv6 as the communication protocol, if the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is also enabled for IPv6.
You can also verify that the host agent log file is created, by typing the following command at the prompt: /opt/xppa/hostagent/log/ The name of the log file is prefixed with the date and time, that is yyyy-MM-dd_hh-mm-ss_PerformanceAdvisorXP.log. For example, 2009-09-16_09-22-08_PerformanceAdvisorXP.log Based on whether you have performed an installation or upgrade, do one of the following: • Return to the installation checklist to complete the remaining checklist items.
Executing the OpenVMS Integrity Server host agent installer IMPORTANT: • Before you begin the installation, use HP XP P9000Info to verify that the connectivity to the command device is established. For more information, see “Verifying host agent connectivity to a command device” (page 44). • Ensure that the TCP/IP services are running on the OpenVMS host. • The JRE v1.6.0–2.p1 is bundled along with the OpenVMS Integrity Server host agent software.
The name of the log file is prefixed with the date and time, that is, yyyy-MM-dd_hh-mm-ss_PerformanceAdvisorXP.log. For example, 2009-09-16_09-22-08_PerformanceAdvisorXP.log NOTE: The PerformanceAdvisorXP.log file cannot be opened when the host agent and realtime services are active on an OpenVMS Integrity Server (IA-64) host. To view the log file, stop the services, navigate to the hostagent/log/ folder, and then open the PerformanceAdvisorXP.log file.
3. Click the Host Information tab on the Array View screen. The HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host-specific details appear in the Host Information table: Screen elements Description Host Displays the system name of the host. OS Displays the operating system installed on the host and its current version. HA Version Displays the version of the host agent installed on the host. RMLib Version Displays the RAID Manager Library version installed on the host.
f. g. h. Under Storage in the left pane, select Disk Management. In the right pane, select a command device from the list of command devices displayed by the HP XP P9000Info command (see “XPInfo –i command” (page 83)). Right-click the command device and select New Partition. The New Partition Wizard appears. i. j. k. l. Click Next. Select Primary partition and click Next. Specify the size of the partition in the Partition size in MB box, and click Next. Click Mount in the following empty NTFS folder. m.
NOTE: To ensure accurate performance data collection: • The command device on which the GUID is created must always be mounted. • When you create a GUID, you must request updated host agent information under the Host Information tab. • If you delete a GUID partition and recreate it, you must request the updated host information under the Host Information tab.
5 Configuring SSL settings for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor You can configure SSL settings for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor using the unsigned or the signed approach. Unsigned approach You can generate unsigned SSL certificates on the server and add them to the JRE's trusted list of certificates to enable SSL on a HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. The advantage with this method is that it does not need a Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificate.
1. On the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agent, download the InstallCert program from the following location: http://blogs.sun.com/andreas/resource/InstallCert.java . In case the link does not open, you can use the following location: https://jira.springsource.org/ secure/attachment/13865/InstallCert.java NOTE: JavaC is required to compile the InstallCert program on the host agent server. When you compile the program, ensure that it is named as InstallCert. 2.
Enter certificate to add to trusted keystore or 'q' to quit: [1] 1 [ [ Version: V3 Subject: CN=abc.domain.company.net, OU=DDD, O=HP, L=Bangalore, ST=Karnataka, C=IN Signature Algorithm: SHA1withRSA, OID = 1.2.840.113549.1.1.
Set the http.port=443 The default locations of the file for windows and non windows are listed below : 9. • C:\Program Files (x86)\Hewlett-Packard\xppa\hostagent\config • /opt/xppa/hostagent/config Start the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agent service. For more information, see “Starting, stopping, and restarting host agent services” (page 124).
Where ever the password is prompted the password provided is “changeit” Enter keystore password: The text file csr.txt will be generated in the current directory. Type csr.txt at the prompt to open the file. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\bin>csr.txt The sample for the csr.
Import the secondary certificate by executing the following command: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\bin>keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias secon daryIntermediate -keystore c:\hpss\pa\tomcat\conf\keystore -file c:\hpss\pa\tomc at\conf\secondary.cer Where ever the password is prompted the password provided is “changeit” Enter keystore password: Certificate was added to keystore C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.
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6 Using HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor After installing the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and the host agents, start collecting the configuration and the performance data for the XP and the P9000 disk arrays. You can initiate configuration data collection for only one XP or P9000 disk array at a time, and select only one command device through which you can collect data for the XP or the P9000 disk array.
Collecting configuration data You can create a one-time configuration data collection or schedule it on a periodic basis. The procedure described here is for scheduling a configuration data collection. IMPORTANT: • Select only one command device from an XP or a P9000 disk array to perform the configuration data collection for that array. • When a configuration data collection is in progress for an XP or a P9000 disk array, do not initiate another configuration data collection for that array.
Figure 20 Configuration Data Collection 5. Retain the Collection Type as OutBand (default selection), if you want HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor to directly collect data from the XP or the P9000 disk array through the array SVP (not applicable for XP1024/128 Disk Arrays). Select the Collection Type as Inband, if you want the RAID Manager Library to collect the configuration data from an XP or a P9000 disk array and transfer to HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
7. Based on the disk array and mode of collection that you selected, following are the further course of steps: If you selected an XP disk array and either of the following modes of configuration data collection: • The outband mode - In this case, manually enter the SVP IP address in the SVP IP Address text box and proceed to next step to initiate the configuration data collection.
automatically updated in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. If there are new components that you want to monitor, enable the associated performance data collection schedules to automatically collect data for the new components (RAID groups and ports). IMPORTANT: If the configuration data collection fails due to an error, the Collection Status displays . The reason for the error is displayed as a tool tip.
performance data collection schedule that you are creating, HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor does the following validations and displays appropriate error messages if the validations fail: 5. • If it is the first performance data collection schedule, HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor verifies if the configuration data is already available for that XP or P9000 disk array.
NOTE: • Selecting a ThP, snapshot, or a continuous access journal volume also provides the respective volume pool information. • The THP Group(s), CA Journal Group(s), and the SNAP Group(s) component type lists are displayed only if the corresponding components are configured on the selected XP or the P9000 disk array. The External RG(s) component type list is displayed only if the external volumes are attached to the selected XP or the P9000 disk array.
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.
7 Understanding the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor upgrade prerequisites This chapter describes the prerequisites to upgrade the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor software and the host agents, and explains the upgrade checklist. For more information, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents upgrade checklist” (page 103). To install HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor, see “HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents installation checklist” (page 20).
• Upgrading HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents: This section directs you to the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents upgrade procedures for the host agents you want to upgrade. • After installing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents: This section lists the post-upgrade tasks and prerequisites that you must complete to login, and configure data collections in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor.
Table 12 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor and host agents upgrade checklist (continued) Reconfigure the email and alarm notification settings on the management station to receive alarms, reports, and data collection failure notifications. For more information, see “Reconfigure the email and alarm settings on your management station” (page 107). Based on the host agents you want to install, download the respective host agent files to the respective hosts.
IMPORTANT: Ensure that the following prerequisites are completed before you begin the upgrade: • Adequate free disk space (at least double the size of the existing database) is available on the , where you intend to perform the upgrade. For example, if HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor is installed on the C:\ drive, ensure that adequate free disk space is available on C:\ before proceeding with the upgrade.
8 Upgrading HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor This chapter describes upgrading the current version of HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor to its latest version.
If you face upgrade related issues, the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software Troubleshooting and FAQs Guide. For document download information, see “Related information” (page 118). Verify the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor functionality for historic data Verify the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor functionality for historic data by plotting charts, and see if you are able to view the previous set of collections.
9 Upgrading the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agents This chapter describes upgrading the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows and UNIX host agents.
3. Click Next. The Ready to Upgrade the Program screen appears. 4. 5. Click Next. During the upgrade process, you will be prompted to confirm the removal of RAID Manager Library, click Yes. NOTE: The RAID Manager Library is shipped along with the installer for the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent. The Setup Completed Successfully screen appears, indicating the completion of the upgrade process.
10 Modifying or repairing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor After installing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor or the host agents, modify the settings that you selected during the installation.
Modifying HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Windows host agent program features You can select the real-time component and install it for your HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host agent, or remove the already installed real-time component on your host. To modify the current HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor program features for your Windows host agent: 1. Run the setup.exe installation script. For more information, see “Executing the Windows host agent installer” (page 73).
11 Removing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor To remove HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor, you must first remove the host agent from each host, and then remove HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor from the management station.
4. Click Yes to remove the RAID Manager Library. If the RAID Manager Library functions are being shared by some other application, click No to retain it. Removing a UNIX host agent To remove the host agent from hosts other than Windows, complete the following steps: 1. Telnet to the remote host as root. 2. Navigate to the tmp directory. 3. Untar the host agent .tar file by entering: tar -xvf hostagent_.tar 4. Run the uninstall script by entering: unix_local_uninstall.
NOTE: • Ignore the following error message that is displayed when you click No on the message prompt. • Ensure that 1 GB free space is available in the management station’s TEMP folder. (TEMP folder here refers to the folder defined by the user or system environment variable named TEMP). • During the un-installation process, the installation wizard stops and starts the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service, which is a Windows-based service.
12 Installing Oracle patches and security updates This section describes the Oracle patch installation procedure to apply the latest patches and security features for the Oracle instance that is installed with HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor. It is not mandatory to install the patches. It is required only if you want to meet the security compliance standards of Oracle within your organization.
4. Ensure that the following services are stopped: • Distributed Transaction Coordinator • HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Database • HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Database Job Scheduler By default, this service is disabled.
NOTE: Re-running the Oracle patch installer when it is already installed displays the following error message: The Oracle patch application process for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software failed. For more information, inspect the __OraclePatch.log and opatch.log located under . The installation wizard will exit now. You can ignore the above error.
13 Support and other resources Contacting HP HP technical support For world wide technical support information, see the HP support website: http://www.hp.
Websites • HP.com http://www.hp.com • HP Storage http://www.hp.com/go/storage • HP Manuals http://www.hp.com/support/manuals • HP download drivers and software http://www.hp.com/support/downloads • HP Software Depot http://www.software.hp.
Typographic conventions Table 13 Document conventions Convention Element Blue text: Table 13 (page 120) Cross-reference links and email addresses Blue, underlined text: http://www.hp.
A Installing a Loopback Adapter IMPORTANT: The procedures provided here for installing the Loopback Adapter on different Windows versions are directly taken from the Oracle documentation. For the latest information on Loopback Adapter, see the Oracle website: http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10130_02/ reqs.htm. When you install a Loopback Adapter, it assigns a local IP address for your computer.
8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. In the Select Network Adapter window, do the following: a. Manufacturers: Select Microsoft. b. Network Adapter: Select Microsoft Loopback Adapter. c. Click Next. In The wizard is ready to install your hardware window, click Next. In the Completing the Add Hardware Wizard window, click Finish. If you are using Windows 2003, restart your computer. Right-click My Network Places on the desktop and select Properties.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Open the Windows Control Panel. Double-click Add Hardware to start the Add Hardware wizard. In the Welcome window, click Next. In The wizard can help you install other hardware window, select Install the hardware that I manually select from a list, and click Next. From the list of hardware types, select the type of hardware you are installing window, select Network adapters, and click Next. In the Select Network Adapter window, do the following: a. Manufacturers: Select Microsoft.
B Starting, stopping, and restarting host agent services This section describes the procedures to start, stop, or restart Windows, UNIX, and OpenVMS Integrity Server (IA–64) host agent and real-time services: IMPORTANT: • When a Windows host agent service is started, stopped, or restarted using the Start+Programs+HP Storage Works+HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Host Agent menu, the real-time service is also automatically started, stopped, or restarted.
Stopping HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Realtime service, please wait… To stop the UNIX host agent and real-time services: • To stop the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Hostagent service, type /opt/xppa/hostagent/sbin/xppa stop in the command prompt window. • To stop the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Realtime Server service, type /opt/xppa/realtime/xpparealtime stop in the command prompt window.
Glossary A Array Control Processor (ACP) ACP is used in the XP disk arrays prior to the XP24000 Disk Array. With the introduction of the XP24000 Disk Array, the DKA has replaced ACP. The DKA is also applicable for the P9000 disk arrays. ACP handles the transfer of data between the cache and the physical drives held in the DKUs. The ACPs work in pairs, providing a total of eight SCSI buses. Each SCSI bus associated with one ACP is paired with a SCSI bus on the other ACP pair element.
D DASD Fast Write (DFW) The DFW is the function of a storage controller that allows caching of active write data without exposure of data loss. This is achieved by journaling of the active write data in the NVS. Device Special File (DSF) In the non windows systems, the DSF is an interface for a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. In the Windows systems, the DSF allows the software to interact with a device driver using the standard input or the output system calls.
L LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. LDAP is used for centralized authentication, where the LDAP server authenticates and authorizes HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor users. LDEV Logical device. An LDEV is created when a RAID group is carved into pieces according to the selected host emulation mode (that is, OPEN-3, OPEN-8, OPEN-9). The number of resulting LDEVs depends on the selected emulation mode. The term LDEV is also known as term volume. LUN Logical unit number.
RAID Manager RAID Manager is installed on the host systems and is used to manage activity with certain program products of the XP subsystem (for example, pairing activity). Commands can be performed manually or through the scripting for large jobs. RAID Manager Library (RML, RMLIB) The RAID Manager Library is an API library that enables third-party software products to directly operate some of the functions on the HP XP P9000 and XP disk arrays. Read/Write (R/W) Read-write access.
LDEVs as and when the data is written, and only at that time is the physical capacity assigned to the LDEVs and used for storage purpose. Tiered Storage Manager (TSM) Tiered Storage Manager Software is used to perform migration, where data stored on one volume is moved to another volume in the disk arrays. Tiered Storage Manager moves data that resides on predefined set of volumes to another set of volumes with the same characteristics.
Index management station, 112 post install instructions, 112 C conventions document, 120 text symbols, 120 D Disk space requirements, 25 document conventions, 120 prerequisites, 118 related documentation, 118 documentation providing feedback, 118 F feedback documentation, 118 H help obtaining, 118 Host agent Windows, Linux, UNIX, , 45 HP technical support, 118 HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Browser requirements, 45 Coexistence, 45 Firmware requirements, 45 License entitlement, 45 S Stagger Schedule, 2
