ASAP 3.2 Server Manual

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Conversational Interface
The ASAP Conversational Interface (CI) provides a command interpreter so you can
work directly from the collection system. The CI also provides command and control of
the ASAP components. See Section 6: ASAP Conversational Interface Commands.
The ASAP CI provides interactive, formatted reports for all monitored nodes or
selected nodes. Reports are obtained by entering commands such as APP, COMM
SGP, CPU, Disk, File, LH(Expand), Process, Processbusy, RDF, Spooler, System
(cpu, avg), Tape, or TMF. These commands generate reports that display the specified
entity.
You can use the ASAP Conversational Interface to get status information about the
monitor process, the collector process, and the statistic gathering processes. The
ASAP CI is also used for configuring, starting, and stopping the ASAP environment.
Graphical User Interface
The ASAP Client provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for in-depth analysis of
ASAP availability information. It displays color-coded Graph, Grid, and Tree Views of
monitored nodes, entities, and objects, and its easy-to-use interface helps you
understand the status and performance of your systems and applications.
The ASAP Client displays both real-time and historical views of Application, CPU, Disk,
Expand, File, Node, Process, ProcessBusy, RDF, Spooler, System, Tape, and TMF
entities. When objects are down, they are annotated with color-coded icons. These
icons are propagated upward through all visual tree hierarchies, so you are always
aware of an object’s state, no matter what level of the tree is visible.
You can use the Object State Change (OSC) window to obtain a history of object state
changes. The OSC view provides a high-level graphical overview of object state
changes and a detailed log of state changes. The OSC window is divided into two
areas so you can get both high-level and detailed state change information.
When the ASAP Extension (ASAPX) option is present, the ASAP Client also displays
application statistics and domain service-level metrics. Informational views can
encompass all nodes, a selected set of nodes, or focus on a single node, entity, or
object.
Batch Reporting
The Enform product provides ad hoc batch reporting and analysis of the central ASAP
database. You can use the collect process as an Enform server to get fast hourly rollup
reporting.
ASAP performance information is stored in a structured real-time availability database
that user programs can easily access. The structure of this normalized database is
documented in each release of ASAP. To generate DDL data structures that you can