Specifications
HP OpenVMS Version 8.4 for Integrity and Alpha servers SPD 82.35.19
http://www.hp.com/products/openvms
/availabilitymanager/
Management Agents for OpenVMS
HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) is the founda-
tion for HP’s unified infrastructure management strat-
egy. It provides hardware level management for all HP
storage products and servers, including OpenVMS Al-
pha and OpenVMS for Integrity servers. With Manage-
ment Agents installed on an OpenVMS system, that
system can be managed using HP SIM as the single
management console providing fault monitoring, config-
uration management, and event alarms. The Manage-
ment Agents for OpenVMS and related documentation
is available on the OpenVMS System Management web
page located at:
http://www.hp.com/products/openvms
/managementagents/
HP OpenVMS Management Station
HP OpenVMS Management Station (OMS) is a powerful
Microsoft Windows based management tool for system
managers and others who perform system management
tasks on OpenVMS systems. OMS features an intuitive
user interface that is meaningful to system managers
and their environment by allowing them to manage user
accounts, printers, and storage on their systems. Sys-
tem managers and help desk staff no longer need to
remember complicated DCL syntax or command pro-
cedures to manage their OpenVMS Alpha and Integrity
server systems. OMS is based on the Microsoft Man-
agement Console (MMC). The Microsoft Management
Console provides a common management framework
for various administration programs. OpenVMS Man-
agement Station is implemented as an MMC snap-in
and includes all of the MMC components you need.
OpenVMS Management Station and related documen-
tation is available via the OpenVMS System Manage-
ment web page located at:
http://www.hp.com/products/openvms/
managementstation/
HP Operations OpenVMS Agents
The following are the HP Operations OpenVMS Agents:
• HP Operations Manager Agents
HP Operations Manager is a comprehensive manage-
ment solution that monitors, controls, automates cor-
rective actions and reports on the health of all parts of
the managed IT infrastructure. HP Operations Manager
Agents for OpenVMS allows you to integrate OpenVMS
systems into the HP Operations Manager environment,
in order to establish a comprehensive end-to-end man-
agement solution. HP Operations Manager Agents for
OpenVMS, are installed on managed OpenVMS sys-
tems and provide remote intelligence for collecting, ag-
gregating, and monitoring information from a variety of
information sources.
• HP Operations Performance Agents
Operations Performance Agent (OVPA) for OpenVMS
collects, summarizes, time stamps, and detects alarm
conditions on resource data across your system; this in-
cludes both current and historical data. OVPA provides
performance, resource, and end-to-end transaction re-
sponse time measurements and supports network and
database measurement information.
Performance Data Collector
Performance data for an AlphaServer or Integrity server
system can be gathered using the Performance Data
Collector (TDC). By default, TDC periodically collects
and stores data in a file that can be retrieved by user
applications. A TDC Software Developers Kit (SDK)
supports integration of TDC with new or existing appli-
cations and allows processing of "live" data as well as
data read from files. TDC Version 2.2 runtime software
is installed with OpenVMS Version 8.3-1H1.
Performance Data Collector runtime software (TDC_RT
Version 2.2) is installed with OpenVMS Version 8.3-1H1.
Additional Performance Data Collector software and up-
dates, the SDK, and related documentation are avail-
able at:
http://www.hp.com/products/openvms/tdc/
MONITOR Utility
The Monitor utility (MONITOR) is a system management
tool used to obtain information about operating system
performance.
MONITOR allows you to monitor classes of systemwide
performance data (such as system I/O statistics, page
management statistics, and time spent in each of the
processor modes) at specifiable intervals, and produce
several types of output.
The MONITOR utility gets the data that is sampled
by OpenVMS approximately every millisecond. Since
MONITOR and other measuring tools get data by sam-
pling, the accuracy of the data may be affected for an
application which changes states at a rate close to the
sampling interval. For example, you might see inaccu-
rate CPU use reporting for an application that sleeps
most of the time, but wakes up momentarily every mil-
lisecond.
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