HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v5.5 User Guide (T1789-96337, Februrary 2013)

5 Configuring common settings for HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor
This chapter discusses the following topics:
• “Introduction” (page 72)
• “Configuring email and SNMP settings” (page 73)
• “Setting time zone for management station” (page 79)
• “Setting severity level” (page 78)
• “Registering the XP or P9000 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor”
(page 77)
• “Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9000 disk arrays” (page 76)
In addition, this chapter also discusses the following topics:
• “Managing custom groups” (page 83)
• “Managing fabricated LDEV records” (page 89)
• “Managing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor user profiles” (page 93)
• “Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time” (page 79)
• “Receiving email notifications when HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor services fail” (page 80)
Introduction
HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor enables you to configure the commonly used settings, such as
the following:
Settings+PA Settings
“Configuring email and SNMP settings” (page 73)
Email notification for the alarms and reports generation, and
the data collection failure
Settings+Personalize Arrays
“Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9000 disk arrays”
(page 76)
User-friendly names for the XP and the P9000 disk arrays
Settings+Personalize Arrays
“Registering the XP or P9000 disk array SVP IP address in HP
XP P9000 Performance Advisor” (page 77)
Registration of the XP and P9000 disk arrays with the respective
array SVPs
Settings+User Settings
“Setting time zone for management station” (page 79)
Management station date and time to be in sync with the time
zone where it resides
Settings+User Settings
“Setting severity level” (page 78)
Severity level for logging the events, which HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor uses to filter events and log only those that
match the set severity level
Settings+Custom Groups
“Managing custom groups” (page 83)
Manage custom groups, where you create, view, modify, or
delete the custom groups
Settings+Data Grid Update
“Managing fabricated LDEV records” (page 89)
Manage the fabricated LDEV records, where you modify or
delete the incomplete LDEV records, and also replicate settings
across the LDEV records
Settings+Security
“Managing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor user profiles”
(page 93)
Manage HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor users profiles,
where you create, modify or delete the user profiles, and view
their group properties
72 Configuring common settings for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor