ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

HP NonStop ASAP Client Manual—425263-004
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1 Introduction to ASAP
HP Availability Statistics and Performance (ASAP) software product provides an
infrastructure for monitoring the availability and performance of system and application
objects:
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System object information includes the operational status and performance of
NonStop OS systems.
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Application information includes user-defined application domain availability
statistics.
ASAP consists of a number of components that together provides a performance and
availability monitoring infrastructure:
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ASAP Client is an analysis client that runs on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, XP,
2000, NT, ME, or Windows 98, and provides both graphical user interface (GUI)
and intelligent agent functions. The ASAP Client communicates with the ASAP
Server running on the Nonstop OSOS, as well as wireless phones, pagers, SMTP
e-mail servers, and/or HTML browsers.
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ASAP Server is the ASAP server that monitors, gathers, and analyzes availability,
state, and performance statistics throughout a network of HP NonStop servers.
The ASAP server ships complete with monitoring agents that monitor system
components such as CPUs, Comm lines, Disks, Expand, Files, Processes,
Business Processes, RDF, Spooler, Tape, TMF, as well as application processes.
The ASAP Server also includes automated Goals and Actions.
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ASAP Server plug-ins provide in-depth statistics and availability monitoring of a
particular subsystem. For example, the TCP/IP plug-in provides an additional 12
new entities along with 600 additional performance and availability statistical
attributes associated with the TCP/IP subsystem.
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ASAP extension provides an application programmer interface (API) so you can
monitor the availability and performance of your application domains. The API lets
Application domain statistics become fully integrated with ASAP Client/Server
functions.
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ASAP Hybrid extends the capabilities of ASAP application monitoring to remote
systems running the Linux OS. Application metrics from remote Linux systems are
integrated in ASAP on one or more NonStop servers providing an overall view of
entire application sets as they span one or more remote NonStop And Linux
servers.
Topic Page
Feature Summary
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ASAP Architectural Overview 1-4
ASAP Client Component Overview 1-5
OEM Architectural Overview 1-7