HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

I you want to know about and deal with server performance issues before they impact user productivity:

• PMP provides an overview of configuration anomalies that could impact performance, such as faster

drives on slower controllers, NICs set to half-duplex, PCI cards concentrated on a single PCI bus, and

so forth.

• PMP provides early alerts of building performance bottleneck situations.

• PMP enables interactive and historical analysis of performance issues.

• PMP provides easily understand recommendations for solving performance issues.

If you cannot replace servers every three years.

• PMP provides details on a subsystem that causes performance constraints, enabling pinpointed upgrades

to economically extend the useful life of a server.

• When economical upgrade possibilities are exhausted, PMP provides a summary report containing

both a performance profile (showing for each subsystem the percentage of time that performance is

out of specification) and a detailed server inventory for each subsystem.

Two PMP tools are available on Windows systems through HP SIM Optimize menu:

• Online Analysis Enables you to watch and analyze the real-time performance of a monitored server.

To access Online Analysis, select Optimize→HP Performance Management Pack→Online

Analysis; or from the All Systems collection page, select the monitored server by clicking its status

icon in the PF column.

To access help for this option, go to https://middle_tier:2381/pmp/help/Server_Status.htm,

where middle_tier is the name or IP address of the server that HP SIM and PMP are installed, or

access PMP directory\Program Files\HP\Performance Management

Pack\htm\help\Server_Status.htm, where PMP directory is the PMP directory on the server

that PMP is installed.

• Offline Analysis Enables you to view recorded data sessions directly from the PMP repository and

license servers for PMP.

To access Offline Analysis, select Optimize→HP Performance Management Pack→Offline

Analysis.

To access help for this option, go to https://middle_tier:2381/pmptools/help/Offline Analysis.htm,

where middle_tier is the name or IP address of the server on which HP SIM and PMP are installed,

or access PMP directory\Program Files\HP\HP Performance Management

Pack\PMPTools\htm\help\Offline Analysis.htm, where PMP directory is the PMP

directory on the server on where PMP is installed.

See http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantessentials/valuepack/pmp/index.html for

more information about PMP and access to documentation.