NonStop Cluster Performance Essentials User's Guide, Version 2.2

4.3.2. Initial Setup

PE SIM plug-in collects performance data from all live, configured Linux and NonStop

servers once per minute. It analyzes the data and determines if any alert is to be

triggered. If so, the user is notified according to the notification criteria. By default,

40 intervals of historical data are retained in the database. The actual number of

intervals of historical data is divided by the greatest amount of systems that you

have Linux or NonStop agents running on. For instance, if you have 3 systems

running Linux Agents and 2 systems running NonStop Agents, then the actual

number of intervals of historical data will be the 40 intervals divided by 3 by default.

This value is configurable; refer to Configuration Options

for more details.

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4.3.3. Performance Task Scheduler

Performance Essentials SIM plug-in creates its own performance task scheduler to

collect performance data from the NonStop and Linux agents. In order for the

scheduler to work, the user must use the NonStop Cluster Configuration

Management application to configure a cluster with NonStop and/or Linux servers

that have agents running on them. Because the scheduler is dependent on the

discovery of the cluster, the user must now discover the servers either manually or

through SIM’s automatic discovery and configure the servers WBEM/WMI System

Protocol Settings Credentials. A successful discovery of the systems will yield

“NonStop OS“ or “LINUX” under the OS Name column of the SIM Systems Table. If

the discovery yields “HP NSK” under the OS Name column, then the configurations

for HP NonStop Cluster Essentials need to be revisited and most likely modified.

Note: SIM v5.3 has a different discovery procedure than SIM v5.2. Manual discovery

for SIM v5.3 can be done via Options  Discovery and clicking on “New”. The

user may choose to discover a single system or multiple systems by providing the IP

or DNS name or list of IP’s in the specified field. The discovery should be given a

name and the “Automatically execute discovery every..” should be unchecked. After

that, the system credentials must be provided by clicking on “Credentials” and

providing the Sign-in System Credentials for the system. The WBEM credentials also

should be provided at this time via the “Show advanced protocol credentials link”. By

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