OVNPM 1.5.2 - Performance Agent for NonStop Display Agent Guide

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1 Introducing OVNPM Display Agent
1-1 OVNPM Display Agent
OVNPM Display Agent provides performance and capacity management with four principal processes that
enable various departments to access crucial information concerning the diverse areas of production quality. The
Display Agent is designed to fully support the following activities.
• Real-Time Supervision
Dashboards and alarms permit immediate reactions to production problems that have just occurred,
before degradation of service occurs.
• In-Depth Analysis
Drill-down features of real-time or replay information enables system support to investigate production
anomalies and eliminate recurring incidents by pinpointing their causes.
• Daily Production Control
Resource consumption profiles allow continuous improvement of production quality and an increase in
service levels. System tuning enables continuous improvement in availability and response times.
• Trend Analysis
Reports on business and production trends permit high level management to gain control over change
and optimize the return on IS investment.
It also provides a broad range of capabilities, including a replay for after-the-fact troubleshooting, complex
alarms management with multi-criteria thresholds, automated load balancing, automated performance events
correlation, and a user-defined interface for direct application monitoring.
Distributed OVNPM (DSV) enables a user to have a view of all machines from a single Display Agent.
1-2 Display Agent Operating Components
The OVNPM Display Agent has two operating components:
• Data Server that runs on the host computer.
• Display Agent that runs at a client personal computer.
The Data Server monitors the host and collects data about its status. It supplies this data to Display Agent clients
on request.
The Display Agent is the Windows-based graphical user interface. It requests information from the Data Server to
satisfy end-user requests and then displays this information in an organized and meaningful way.
1-3 Display Agent Modules
The Display Agent modules give you different outlooks of your system. The following list describes the functions of
these various modules.
SystemInsight gives you current and recent short-term information in easy to understand graphical displays. The
graphical displays make it easy to identify abnormal system behavior. Once you identify a situation, you can
view all the data items that relate to it. The correlation feature of SystemInsight is not available in the distributed
access mode (DSV).
SystemReport shows detailed data in tabular reports that complement the graphic displays of SytemInsight.
SystemReport is the tool you use to analyze data that was used to calculate a graphic display.
SystemTrend shows patterns of usage over a broad period of time. SystemTrend is the trend analysis tool. You
can analyze past performance patterns to help in capacity planning, resource allocation, scheduling, and
problem diagnosis. SystemTrend complements SystemInsight. SystemInsight monitors current and past
performance. SystemTrend reports on behavior across historical periods.
SystemAlert issues alarms when the configured thresholds are reached. SystemAlert is the alarm system. The
alarms displayed by SystemAlert complement the real-time supervision capability provided by supervision
dashboards. You can set threshold conditions for certain events. SystemAlert issues an alarm when the threshold
is reached. In the distributed access mode (DSV), you can only receive alarms. You cannot define or change any
threshold parameter.
Introducing OVNPM Display Agent