ASAP 2.8 Server Manual

Introduction to Availability Statistics and
Performance (ASAP)
HP NonStop ASAP Server Manual—522303-007
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ASAP Extension Features
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Automatic archival of Object History
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Provides network-wide performance and state history
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Normalized, allowing fast, ad hoc, real-time queries
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Can partition database across multiple disk volumes
ASAP Extension Features
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Easy-to-use API
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Domains of service
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Availability monitoring
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Metric calculation and generation
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Alerts based on user-defined objectives
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Data normalized in the ASAP Server database
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Full integration with the ASAP Client and Server
ASAP Extension Architecture
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Monitors and Statistics Gathering processes (SGPs)
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Nonmessaging data collection
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Shared memory segment counters
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Application Programmer Interface
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Multilevel domain name registration
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Synchronized sampling across all ASAP Server entities
ASAP Extension Discrete Object Thresholds (DOTs)
Features
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Objective thresholding based on domain names and levels of the domain name
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Thresholds based on the DOTs operators >, <, =, <>, <=, and >= on any
application metric
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Objectives thresholds and alerts reported by the ASAP Client based on the actual
threshold
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User configurable EMS threshold events
ASAP Hybrid Features
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Easy-to-use Linux API