ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Introduction to ASAP
HP NonStop ASAP Client Manual—425263-004
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ASAP Architectural Overview
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Dashboard views that can be named, saved, and displayed to provide unique sets
of user-defined graphical views
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Reports can be obtained by selecting a busy object such as a disk, and then
selecting Show Related Measurement to obtain highly detailed Measure reports on
the busiest files and process openers for a selected CPU, Disk, File, or Process.
ASAP Architectural Overview
ASAP consists of these functional layers:
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The ASAP Server includes remote-node statistics-gathering processes (SGPs) that
run throughout an Expand network of NonStop systems. These intelligent SGPs
gather and analyze Application, CPU, Disk, Expand, File, Node, Process,
Processbusy, RDF, Spooler, System, Tape, and TMF entity information and report
this information to a local-node ASAP database server.
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The ASAP database server collects and normalizes network-wide application and
system availability data and stores this information in the ASAP database. The
ASAP local-node server includes command interpreters and database servers
acting on behalf of ASAP workstation clients.
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The ASAP Client includes GUI and agent functions to help you view and analyze
system and application statistics. Using ASAP, you can view the overall state of
your applications and systems, as well as performance information. You can also
focus on specific nodes, entities, or objects. The ASAP Client runs on workstations
running Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 95, or
Windows 98.