HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v6.0 User Guide

Stopping performance data collection schedules....................................................................66
Restarting performance data collection schedules...................................................................67
Deleting performance data collection schedules.....................................................................68
Setting the java heap size values.........................................................................................68
Setting the heap size for management station...................................................................68
Setting the heap size values for Windows and Unix host agents..........................................69
5 Configuring common settings for HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor...............70
Introduction............................................................................................................................70
Configuring email and SNMP settings.......................................................................................71
Providing user-friendly names for XP and P9000 disk arrays.........................................................74
Registering the XP or P9000 disk array SVP IP address in HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor...........75
Setting the severity level for events............................................................................................76
Setting time zone for management station..................................................................................77
Setting the duration to predict the LDEV response time.................................................................77
Receiving email notifications when HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor services fail.........................78
Managing custom groups........................................................................................................81
Creating custom groups......................................................................................................82
Using custom group filters...............................................................................................82
Significance of creating custom groups.................................................................................83
Viewing custom group configurations....................................................................................83
Modifying custom groups....................................................................................................86
Editing custom groups....................................................................................................86
Deleting custom groups..................................................................................................87
Managing fabricated LDEV records...........................................................................................87
Viewing Data Grid Update screen........................................................................................87
Querying for fabricated LDEV records...................................................................................88
Modifying fabricated LDEV records......................................................................................89
Editing fabricated LDEV records......................................................................................89
Deleting fabricated LDEV records....................................................................................90
Using template..................................................................................................................90
Managing HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor user profiles..........................................................91
Creating and editing user profiles........................................................................................91
Creating a user record...................................................................................................92
Changing password......................................................................................................92
Deleting a user record...................................................................................................92
Viewing group properties....................................................................................................93
6 Monitoring performance of XP and P9000 disk arrays..................................94
Introduction............................................................................................................................94
Configuring dashboard threshold settings..................................................................................97
Specifying the top 20 consumers.........................................................................................99
Dashboard threshold metrics..................................................................................................100
Viewing dashboard..............................................................................................................103
XP/P9000 array health....................................................................................................104
Dashboard statistics.........................................................................................................105
Component levels in the Statistics section........................................................................107
Dashboard statistics and threshold metrics......................................................................107
Dashboard busiest consumers............................................................................................110
Dashboard charts............................................................................................................111
High watermark in dashboard charts..................................................................................112
7 Configuring alarms and managing events..................................................114
Introduction..........................................................................................................................114
Configuring alarms and viewing alarms history....................................................................114
Selecting components and metrics..........................................................................................116
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