HP ProLiant Essentials
Performance Management Pack
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Part number: 306921-591
Tenth edition: April 2007
Introduction
HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack (PMP) is a software solution
that detects and analyzes hardware performance issues on HP ProLiant servers,
HP Integrity Servers and HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) shared
storage devices. PMP provides the tools you need to receive proactive notification
of building bottleneck conditions and debug existing performance issues.
With PMP, you can monitor performance on one or more servers. The performance
information is analyzed to determine if there is a pending or existing performance
bottleneck issue. You can interactively display this information, log the information
to a database for later analysis or reporting, and set up proactive notification
using the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) notification mechanism.
PMP is an intelligent, easy-to-use tool that is accessed from Microsoft
clients running Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher and that monitors servers
running Windows or Linux. For detailed information about supported operating
systems, refer to the HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack
Support Matrix.
PMP is a Web-based application that enables you to watch and analyze the
real-time performance of any monitored server from a separate client.
The performance monitoring service is designed to run on a separate middle-tier
server, which also serves as the HP SIM console server. The monitored servers are
only required to run the standard Management Agents. Because of the design of
PMP, there is minimal impact on the monitored servers.
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PMP provides the following key benefits:
• Enables you to monitor your ProLiant and Integrity system performance
• Increases user satisfaction by proactively dealing with performance issues
• Monitors performance without “console watching” or while you are away
• Collates and reports on performance information for planning
Applying software licenses
In the earlier releases of PMP, servers and storage were licensed using the
Licensing Administration page of PMP. In this version of PMP, the navigation for
licensing servers is modified. The navigation for licensing storage devices remains
the same.
With this release, you can license servers for PMP using one of the
following pages:
• Configuration page
• Online Analysis page
Before licensing servers for PMP, verify that each of the servers has a supported
operating system and version of Management Agents installed. Also be sure that
HP SIM reports the correct hardware and software information for each server.
For more information about discovering and updating the server list in HP SIM,
see the “Obtaining the server list” chapter of the HP ProLiant Essentials
Performance Management Pack Setup and Installation Guide. For information
about supported operating systems and Management Agent versions, refer to the
HP ProLiant Essentials Performance Management Pack Support Matrix.
Licensing servers using the Configuration page:
1. From the HP SIM console toolbar, select Options>Performance Management
Pack>Configuration. The Verify Target Systems page appears.
2. Select the servers you need to license and click Next.
If you need to remove a server from the list, select the server name and select
Remove Target.
The Licensing Setup page appears. The information in this page is categorized in
the following sections:
• All Licensed Devices - This section lists all the devices that have already been
licensed.
• All Devices not available for Licensing - This section lists all the devices that
cannot be licensed. It also lists the reason why this server cannot be licensed.
For example, the device may not be a supported server, or it does not have a
serial number or it is part of a configuration that is not supported. Even if the
management agents running on the managed node are not supported, the
device is not available for licensing. When the device is of an unsupported
configuration, run Software Status Polling for the server. In the HP SIM
console, select Status Polling>Software Status Polling. In the Verify Target
Systems page, select the server and click Run Now.
• All Devices available for Licensing - This section lists all the devices that are
available to licensing.
3. Click Next. The License unlicensed systems page appears. This page displays
the number of available licenses and the number of servers that need to be
licensed. If the number of servers to be licensed is more than the number of
available licenses, you need to add a key using Add Key.
NOTE: When there are no servers available for licensing, the page
displays the Previous and Run Now buttons. Selecting Run Now will
display the monitoring page.
4. Select the server that you need to license and click Apply License. The servers
are now licensed and can be monitored.
NOTE: The servers are licensed if there are sufficient
licenses.
5. To monitor the servers, click Run Now. The PMP Monitoring page appears.
To obtain additional licenses, you must purchase a ProLiant Essentials Performance
Management Pack license kit. For information about the kit, refer to the HP
website at http://www.hp.com/go/pmp.
Licensing Servers using Online Analysis page:
In addition to licensing servers from the Configuration page, servers can also be
licensed from the Online Analysis page.
To license servers using the Online Analysis page:
1. From the HP SIM console toolbar, select Diagnose>Performance Management
Pack>Online Analysis. The Online Analysis page appears.
The subsequent steps in licensing servers using the Online Analysis page are same
as the steps to license servers using the Configuration page.
For information about purchasing PMP licenses, refer to
http://www.hp.com/go/pmp.
Adding licenses
While licensing a server, it is possible that the number of servers that need to be
licensed exceed the number of licenses that are available. In such cases, a license
or a key must be added to license the additional servers.
To add a license:
1. In the Licensed unlicensed systems page, click Add Key. The Add Key pane
appears.
2. Enter an available license key. License keys are located on the sticker
included with the PMP license kit.
3. Click OK. The added license is displayed in the License unlicensed systems
page.
IMPORTANT: The license key field is case-sensitive. Only numerals and
uppercase letters are acceptable entries.
4. Select the servers you need to license and click Apply License.
5. Click Run Now to license the server and to make it available for monitoring.
Adding a key individually
Besides adding a license when attempting to license a server, you can add
licenses to the databases independently as well. There are two ways you can add
a license to the database:
• Add a key individually
• Add a key from a file
To add a key individually:
1. In the HP SIM console toolbar, select Deploy>License Manager>Manage Keys.
2. Click Add Keys. The Add a New Key pane appears.
3. Enter the key in the five text boxes. Be sure to enter five characters in each
field. The cursor automatically advances to the next field when the current
field is full as you enter the key. Optionally, you can also copy paste a key.
NOTE: When you paste the complete key, it can be in the groups of give
characters and each group separated by a hyphen. For example, ##########-#####-#####-#####. Be sure not to include space between the
characters and the hyphens.
4. Click Open to view the details of the key.
5. Click Add Key to add the new key to the database. If no error message is
displayed, then the key is valid and will be added to the database. If the key
is invalid, an error message is displayed and the key is not added to the
database.
Adding key from file:
Through HP SIM, you can add one or more keys to the database by saving it in a
file, and then uploading it into the database. The file must be in the XML format
and must be saved with a key extension. The file can contain any number of keys
in it. Once the file is uploaded, all the keys saved in it are automatically added to
the database. You can create a file and add the keys to it. However, be sure to
follow the following format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<KEYLIST>
<KEY>
<KEYSTRING>A2345-1B345-12C45-123D5-
123E5</KEYSTRING>
<KEYSTRING>A2345-2B345-32C45-123D5-
423E5</KEYSTRING>
</KEY>
</KEYLIST>
To add keys to the database from a file:
1. From the HP SIM console toolbar, select Deploy>License Manager>Manage
Keys.
2. Click Add Key from File. The Add Key from File pane appears.
3. Enter the complete path and file name in the Specify a file name and path field.
Alternatively, you can click Browse to locate the file.
4. Click Open.
5. Click Add Keys to add all the keys into the database.
To apply licenses to monitor network
storage enclosures:
1. From the HP SIM console, click the performance icon in the PF column for the
licensed server connected to the network storage.
2. At the Online Analysis window, expand the Storage section of the hierarchical
tree.
3. Click the Redirect icon for the network storage enclosure to license. The
Storage Enclosure License Administration page appears.
4. Click Apply License.
Online support and information
For HP support and software updates, refer to the Performance Management Pack
website at http://www.hp.com/go/pmp.
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