ASAP 3.0 Server Manual

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These service-level metrics are automatically evaluated against predefined
objectives to establish alert priorities so that you can quickly identify when
objectives are not being met for an application process. For more information, see
the ASAP Hybrid Manual.
This manual also describes these important tools for your ASAP environment:
The Entity Definition Language (EDL) lets you describe an entity and its associated
data attributes required for the ASAP Client, Server, and Extension.
The system entities APP, Comm, CPU, Disk, Expand, File, Hybrid, Node, Process,
ProcessBusy, RDF, Spooler, Swap, System, Tape, TCP/IP, Telserv, and TMF
have entity definitions in the ASAP2SYS file. This file must not be altered.
Customer-developed applications in the ASAP environment use the EDL for
defining application metrics and display formats. For more information on creating
custom EDLs for user applications, see the ASAP Extension Manual and ASAP
Hybrid Manual.
Discrete Object Thresholds (DOTs) let you set discrete objectives against specific
attributes for any ASAP entity.
DOTs provides a database in ASAP to store and retrieve domain names and
objective values; a user command interface; an event generation service; and an
API to calculate ASAP (OEM) states and retrieve information from the database.
DOTs require that you define entities using EDL and that entity information is
available for each caller of the DOTs API.
Audience
The manual is intended for system operators, system administrators, and others who
need information about NonStop operating system performance, entity states, and
user application availability information.
Manual Organization
Section/Appendix
Description
1
Introduction to Availability Statistics and Performance (ASAP)
2
Section 2: Installing ASAP on the Server
3
Section 3: Running ASAP
4
Section 4: Using Discrete Object Thresholds (DOTs)
5
Section 5: File and Process Monitoring
6
Section 6: ASAP Conversational Interface Commands
A
Appendix A: Querying the ASAP Database
B
Appendix B: ASAP Data Definitions