ASAP 3.2 Server Manual

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About This Manual
This manual describes these Availability Statistics and Performance (ASAP) products:
 The ASAP Server monitors, gathers, and analyzes system availability throughout a
network of NonStop servers. System Entities are CIP, CPU, Comm, Disk, Expand,
File, Hybrid
1
, Node, Process, Processbusy, RDF, Spooler, Swap, System, Tape,
TCP/IP, Telserv
2
, and TMF.
The ASAP Extension provides an Application Programmer Interface (API) so you
can monitor the availability and performance of your application domains. The API
lets you fully integrate Application domain statistics with ASAP Client and Server
functions.
ASAP Hybrid extends the Application Programmer Interface (API) to applications
running on the Linux operating system. It allows you to monitor the availability and
performance of applications that span NonStop operating system and Linux
systems.
 The ASAP Client provides both graphical user interface (GUI) and intelligent agent
functions. It displays NonStop OS performance and entity state information, as well
as customer application availability.
You can use the ASAP Client to view and analyze real-time or historical network-
wide views of Application, CIP, Comm, CPU, Disk, Expand, File, Hybrid, Node,
Process (user selected), Processbusy, RDF, Spooler, Swap, System, Tape,
TCP/IP, Telserv, and TMF entities. Informational views can encompass all of your
NonStop OS nodes, reflect a selected set of nodes, or focus on a single node,
entity, or object. The ASAP Client also has built-in agent functions that
automatically retrieve and analyze availability information from the ASAP Server.
For more information, see the ASAP Client Manual.
 The ASAP Extension (ASAPX) is used to collect, measure, view, and analyze
application service-level metrics to track the productivity, performance, and
availability of applications.
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 Extension Manual.
 ASAP Hybrid is used to collect, measure, view, and analyze application service-
level metrics to track the productivity, performance, and availability of Linux-based
applications and applications that span NonStop and Linux systems.
1
The Hybrid entity is an optional part of the ASAP Hybrid product.
2
The TCP/IP and Telserv entities are provided in the optional ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in.