HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software v6.0 User Guide

Related Topics

• “Collecting configuration data” (page 51)

• “Scheduling configuration data collection” (page 52)

• “Performance data” (page 56)

Requesting host agent updates

Prerequisites

Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

• Ensure that the version of the host agent installed on the host matches with the version of HP

XP P9000 Performance Advisor installed on the management station.

• Ensure that the command devices are already created on the XP and the P9000 disk arrays

connected to your host, and configured to communicate with the host. If not already created,

the corresponding RAID Manager Library version is not displayed when you request for a host

update. In such cases, do the following:

1. Create command devices on the XP and the P9000 disk arrays. For more information on

creating command devices, refer to the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software

Installation Guide (see “Related information” (page 355)).

2. Associate the command device with your host agents.

3. Request an update on your host agents.

To request an update on your host agent:

1. Click Monitoring+Array View in the left pane.

The Array View screen appears.

2. Click the Host Information tab. The details for the HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor host

agents appear in the Host Information table:

DescriptionScreen elements

Displays the system name of the host.Host

Displays the operating system installed on the host and

its current version.

Displays the version of the host agent installed on the

host.

HA Version

Displays the RMLIB version installed on the host.RMLib Version

Displays the status of the host update request as either

Requested or Received.

Status

Displays the status of the host information request.Request Status

Displays the date and time stamp when the configuration

device file was sent to the management station.

Updated

3. Select the host agents whose configuration details you want to update in HP XP P9000

Performance Advisor.

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