HP Process Resource Manager User's Guide

Fine-tuning your PRM configuration
Using prmanalyze to analyze your configuration
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• Conflict
This report provides the most detail, highlighting only the instances
where resources are scarce and users are in conflict.
Use this report when fine-tuning a configuration. This report catches
items that are missed by the time-based reports. After identifying
conflicts, determine how much resource each PRM group needed
during each conflict. Then determine what percentage of the resource
the PRM group actually received. With this data, you can locate
users and applications that are not getting as much of the resource
as they should. You can also locate the parties involved most often
and least often in the conflicts.
The command to generate this report: prmanalyze -t conflict
This section focuses on certain prmanalyze functionality. Command
options are used, but not described, in this section. For syntax
information, see the section “prmanalyze” on page 203.
NOTE The examples below are for illustrative purposes only. They are not from
an actual machine. The “summary report” is omitted from the examples
below to better focus on the other reports.
The examples assume you have an existing PRM configuration that you
want to improve. The prmanalyze utility can also be used to create an
initial PRM configuration, as shown in “Using prmanalyze to quickly
identify resource use” on page 81.
NOTE To use prmanalyze, you must have already collected UNIX accounting
data in a file (/var/adm/pacct by default) using accton filename.