ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Configuring ASAP
HP NonStop ASAP Client Manual—425263-004
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Entity Property Sheet
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It is used for System entities that have a Status attribute representing the
operational state of the object. Each Status attribute has a state named Op
associated with it. The value of Op represents the numeric state of the object; for
example, 2 (up), 6 (warning), 7 (critical), and 8 (down). When the Status attribute is
graphed and the Use State Graph State option is chosen, the operational state of
the object is graphed and that state icon appears next to the Status attribute in the
data grid.
Entity Property Sheet
Use the Entity property sheet to control which entities have their availability information
analyzed. The ASAP Client automatically retrieves the selected entities from your host
systems for real-time analysis and display.
The list of entities that appears in the Entity property sheet is determined by the entities
defined in the Entity Definition Language (EDL) file. For more information about adding
entities, see Section 6, Entity Definition Language (EDL).
You do not need to enable all of the entities on the Entity property sheet to obtain
context-sensitive menu reports about these entities. This dialog controls which entities
are retrieved from the host and displayed in various grids and graphs. Try setting only
one entity, such as the CPU entity, to see if this setting provides enough data.
The time required for data retrieval depends on the size of your NonStop OS network,
the number of entities you select, the number of application objects, and the speed of
your host connection:
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For a medium-size network (5 to 10-node), data retrieval for a few key entities
takes up to 15 seconds.
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Retrieving the data for a 30-node network with many entities enabled can take
several minutes.
When only a few entities are enabled, the download interval is typically less than
15 seconds, and you still get detailed progressive reports on CPU, Disk, Expand,
and Process entities.
To enable information retrieval for an entity, check the check box for that entity on the
Entity property sheet:
Check Box Downloaded Status and Performance Attributes
App Application domain name, date, time, CPU, PIN, user-defined metric count,
error number, total downtime, number of no acknowledgements (NAKs),
undefined metrics, and all application-defined metrics
CPU CPU number, date, time, busy, queue, dispatch, disk I/O, cache hits, swaps,
memory queue, and pages locked
Disk Disk name, operational status, date, time, CPU, PIN, capacity, space used,
requests, overall busy, write busy, read busy, cache hits, swaps, queue, and
input and output kilobytes per second