HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits User's Guide

HP-UX WLM Oracle Database Toolkit: Providing Database Metrics to WLM
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2 HP-UX WLM Oracle Database
Toolkit: Providing Database
Metrics to WLM
The HP-UX Workload Manager Oracle Database Toolkit is a collection
of utilities that simplify getting metrics on Oracle database instances
into HP-UX Workload Manager, also known as HP-UX WLM.
WLM enables you to place Oracle instances and other applications in
their own WLM workload groups. With the instances and applications
separated in this manner, WLM can then manage the performance of
each instance and application through prioritized SLOs. These SLOs
typically attempt to ensure:
• A consistent level of performance for the workload
• The needs of critical instances are met—even during peak demand
• Resources are allocated based on time of day, system events, or
application and database metrics
For more information on WLM, see the HP-UX Workload Manager User’s
Guide or wlm(5).
The tools in the WLM Oracle Database Toolkit (ODBTK) make it easy to
use metrics from Oracle database instances as goal values in
service-level objectives. These metrics can also be used to enable or
disable SLOs based on database conditions.