ASAP 3.2 Server Manual

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Section 1: Introduction to
Availability Statistics and
Performance (ASAP)
The Availability Statistics and Performance (ASAP) software product provides an
availability monitoring infrastructure for monitoring the availability and performance of:
 System object information—operational status and performance of NonStop
systems
 Application information—user-defined application domain availability statistics
The Entity Definition Language (EDL) lets you describe an entity and its associated
data attributes, which is required for using the ASAP Client, Server, and Extension.
The system entities CIP, Communication, CPU, Processbusy, Disk, Expand, File,
Hybrid, Node, Process, RDF, Spooler, Swap, System, Tape, TCP/IP, Telserv, and
TMF are static system entities and should not be modified without the consent of HP.
Customer-developed applications in the ASAP environment use EDL for defining
application metrics and display formats. Only application developers should add entity
definitions to the custom EDL files for applications in the ASAP environment. For
information on creating custom EDL files, 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. ASAP provides a DOTs database for storing and
retrieving the entities and associated objective values. DOTs provides a configurable
event generation service.
ASAP Client Features
 Windows look and feel
 Runs on Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and
Windows ME
 Localized high-speed statistics object cache
 3-D graphical views of all ASAP statistical entities
 Real-time, network-wide State and Performance views