ASAP 3.0 QuickStart Guide

HP NonStop ASAP QuickStart Guide Page 13 of 35
Section 1: Introduction to
Availability Statistics and
Performance (ASAP)
The Availability Statistics and Performance (ASAP) product provides an infrastructure for
monitoring the availability and performance of HP NonStop servers and the applications that
run on them.
Before you start using ASAP you need to understand some of the terminology that ASAP
uses. Please read this next section and refer to it when you run across a term that you don’t
understand.
Terminology
Actions
Actions that you can configure ASAP to perform to recover from problems
automatically.
APP
The name of the default application entity and also the command used to
display application data in the ASAP Command Interpreter (CI).
ASAP
A commonly used acronym for the product name. It is also the name of the
command interpreter on your NonStop server.
ASAPCONF
The ASAP configuration file, usually found in the $SYSTEM.SYSTEM
subvolume.
ASAPLOG
The ASAP internal logfile. ASAP normally logs messages to the ASAPLOG
file and also to the EMS log.
Attribute
A property of a monitored subsystem or object. For example Busy and
Queue Length are attributes of CPUs, and Full% and Write Busy are
attributes of the Disks.
Client
Refers to the ASAP Client, a Microsoft Windows™ application that is one of
the user-interfaces available for ASAP.
COLLECT
Sometimes refered to as the collector node, this is the system to which ASAP
data is forwarded from remote nodes. It is the central collection point in the
multi-node environment. In a singe-node environment the collector node is
the same as the monitored node.
COMM
The name of the Communications entity and also the command used to
display COMM data in the ASAP CI.
CPU
The name of the CPU entity and also the command used to display CPU data
in the ASAP CI.