ASAP 3.0 Client Manual

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Section 1: Introduction to ASAP
This section provides an overview of the ASAP product:
HP Availability Statistics and Performance (ASAP) software product provides an
infrastructure for monitoring the availability and performance of system and application
objects:
System object information includes the operational status and performance of
NonStop servers.
Application information includes user-defined application domain availability
statistics.
ASAP consists of monitoring components that together provides a performance and
availability monitoring infrastructure:
ASAP Client is an analysis client that runs on Microsoft Windows Vista, 2003
Server, XP, 2000, NT, ME, or Windows 98, and provides both graphical user
interface (GUI) and intelligent agent functions to a wide range of enterprise
management solutions including HP Systems Insight Manager, HP OpenView
Operations, and HP Web Viewpoint. The ASAP Client continuously communicates
with the ASAP Server running on the Nonstop servers, and communications with
wireless phones, pagers, e-mail servers, and HTML browsers.
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 product includes monitoring agents that monitor system components
such as CPUs, Comm lines, Disks, Expand, Files, Memory, Nodes, Processes,
Business Processes, RDF, Spooler, Swapfiles, Systems, Tape, Tcp/IP, TMF, as
well as application processes. The ASAP Server also includes fully automated
Goals and Actions integrated into the base product.
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.
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.
ASAP Hybrid extends the capabilities of ASAP application monitoring to remote
systems running the Linux OS. Application metrics from remote Linux systems are