Availability Guide for Application Design

What Is Application Availability?
Availability Guide for Application Design—525637-004
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Availability and HP Products
EMS Analyzer Provides an easy way of analyzing EMS messages.
Refer to the EMS Manual for details.
EMS FastStart Provides an easy way to generate and test event messages from the
application.
Refer to the EMS FastStart Manual for details.
Guardian
Performance
Analyzer (GPA)
Helps operations staff to analyze performance data, recommend
action, and predict the impact of the action on performance.
Refer to the GPA Manual for details.
Network Statistics
Extended (NSX)
Provides a graphic display of performance statistics on all nodes,
processors, and Expand line handlers in a network.
Refer to the HP Network Statistics Extended (NSX) Manual for
details.
NonStop
NET/MASTER
Provides a comprehensive operations console, cooperative
management of heterogeneous networks, a management application
development environment, and automated operations tasks.
Refer to the NonStop NET/MASTER manuals for details.
Simple Network
Management
Protocol (SNMP)
Provides automation for the management of entities accessible
through TCP/IP or Ethernet and routes event messages to EMS or
EMS event messages from applications.
Refer to the SNMP manuals for details.
Subsystem Control
Facility (SCF)
Provides an interactive command interface used to configure and
monitor HP data communication subsystems.
Refer to the SCF reference manuals for details.
Subsystem
Programmatic
Interface (SPI)
Provides a set of definitions, procedure calls, and programming
standards for building, sending, retrieving, and decoding tokenized
messages.
Refer to the SPI Programming Manual for details.
HP Capacity Model
(TCM)
Uses a spreadsheet to help operations staff to define and model
transaction workloads, keep a data history for use with different
models, project capacity needs, and predict response times.
Refer to the HP Capacity Model (TCM) Manual for details.
HP Object
Monitoring Facility
(OMF)
Provides an efficient way to supervise objects on HP NonStop
servers, including processors, disks, files, and processes.
Refer to the Object Monitoring Facility (OMF) Manual for details.
ViewPoint Helps the operator to view events generated by subsystems or
applications and the status of objects in the network.
Refer to the ViewPoint Manual for details.
Table 1-7. Products and Facilities Related to DSM That Help Provide
Availability (page 2 of 2)
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