Notices

Preface

Part 1: Overview

1. Overview of PFM - Agent for Platform

1.1 Features of PFM - Agent for Platform

1.1.1 Collect UNIX performance data

1.1.2 Collect performance data according to its characteristics

1.1.3 Save performance data

1.1.4 Notify about problems in UNIX operations

1.1.5 Easily define alarms and reports

1.2 Overview of collecting and managing performance data

1.3 Example of performance monitoring operation

1.3.1 Overview of performance monitoring

1.3.2 How to monitor performance

1.3.3 Definition examples

1.3.4 Operation in virtualized systems

Part 2: Setup and Operation

2. Installation and Setup

2.1 Installation and setup

2.1.1 Before installing and setting up PFM - Agent for Platform

2.1.2 Installation and setup workflow

2.1.3 Installation procedure

2.1.4 Setting up PFM - Agent for Platform

2.2 Uninstallation and unsetup

2.2.1 Before uninstalling PFM - Agent for Platform

2.2.2 Unsetup procedures

2.2.3 Uninstallation procedure

2.3 Changing the system configuration of PFM - Agent for Platform

2.4 Changing the operation of PFM - Agent for Platform

2.4.1 Changing the storage location of performance data

2.4.2 Updating the Store version to 2.0

2.5 Backup and restoration

2.5.1 Backup

2.5.2 Restoration

2.6 Settings for browsing manuals in a Web browser

2.6.1 Setup procedures

2.6.2 Browsing procedures

3. Collecting Log Information

3.1 Overview of collecting log information

3.2 Setup procedure for collecting log information

3.2.1 Setting up the event file

3.2.2 Setting up PFM - Web Console

3.2.3 Notes on collecting log information

4. User-Defined Record Collection

4.1 Overview of user-defined record collection

4.1.1 Information that can be defined as user-defined records

4.2 Setting up user-defined record collection

4.2.1 Settings for collecting workgroup information

4.2.2 Settings for collecting information about the application operating status

4.2.3 Settings for collecting user-specific performance data

Part 3: Reference

5. Monitoring Templates

Overview of monitoring templates

Format of alarm explanations

List of alarms

Disk Service Time

I/O Wait Time

Kernel CPU

Pagescans

Run Queue

Swap Outs

User CPU

CPU Per Processor(K)

CPU Per Processor(U)

Alloc Mem Mbytes

File System Free(L)

File System Free(R)

Disk Busy %

Disk Queue

Network Rcvd/sec

Process End

Process Alive

Format of report explanations

Organization of report folders

List of reports

Avg Service Time - Top 10 Devices

Avg Service Time Status - Top 10 Devices

Console Messages

CPU Per Processor Status

CPU Per Processor Usage

CPU Status

CPU Status (Multi-Agent)

CPU Trend

CPU Trend (Multi-Agent)

CPU Usage - Top 10 Processes

CPU Usage Summary

Device Detail

Device Usage Status

Device Usage Status (Multi-Agent)

Free Space Mbytes - Top 10 Local File Systems

I/O Activity - Top 10 Processes

I/O Overview

Local File System Detail

Major Page Faults - Top 10 Processes

Memory Paging

Memory Paging Status

Memory Paging Status (Multi-Agent)

Network Interface Detail

Network Interface Summary (real-time report indicating network usage status)

Network Interface Summary (historical report indicating network usage status)

Network Overview

Network Status

Network Status (Multi-Agent)

NFS Activity Overview

NFS Load Trend

NFS Usage Status

NFS Usage Status (Multi-Agent)

Paging Trend (Multi-Agent)

Process Detail

Process Overview

Process Summary Status

Process Trend

Remote File System Detail

Space Usage - Top 10 Local File Systems

Space Usage - Top 10 Remote File Systems

System Overview (real-time report indicating system operation status)

System Overview (historical report indicating system operation status)

System Utilization Status

Workload Status

Workload Status (Multi-Agent)

6. Records

Data model

Format of record explanations

List of ODBC key fields

Summarization rules

List of data types

Field values

Fields added only when data is stored in the Store database

Fields that are output when data stored in the Store database is exported

Notes on records

List of records

Application Summary (PD_APP)

CPU - Per Processor Detail (PI_CPUP)

Device Detail (PI_DEVD)

Device Summary (PI_DEVS)

File System Detail - Local (PD_FSL)

File System Detail - Remote (PD_FSR)

Logged Messages (PL_MESS)

Network Interface Detail (PI_NIND)

Network Interface Summary (PI_NINS)

Process Detail (PD)

Process Detail Interval (PD_PDI)

Process Summary (PD_PDS)

Program Summary (PD_PGM)

System Summary Overview (PI)

Terminal Summary (PD_TERM)

User Data Detail (PD_UPD)

User Data Detail - Extended (PD_UPDB)

User Data Interval (PI_UPI)

User Data Interval - Extended (PI_UPIB )

User Summary (PD_USER)

Workgroup Summary (PI_WGRP)

7. Messages

7.1 Message format

7.1.1 Format of output messages

7.1.2 Format of message explanations

7.2 Message output destinations

7.3 List of messages output to syslog

7.4 Messages

Part 4: Troubleshooting

8. Error Handling Procedures

8.1 Error handling procedures

8.2 Troubleshooting

8.2.1 Setting up or starting a service

8.2.2 Executing commands

8.2.3 Report definitions

8.2.4 Alarm definitions

8.2.5 Collecting and managing performance data

8.2.6 Other problems

8.3 Log information

8.3.1 Log types

8.3.2 Log files and directories

8.4 Data to be collected in the event of an error

8.4.1 In UNIX

8.5 Data collection procedure

8.5.1 In UNIX

8.6 Performance Management error detection

8.7 Performance Management system error recovery

Appendixes

A. Estimating System Requirements

A.1 Estimating memory requirements

A.2 Estimating disk space requirements

B. Kernel Parameters

C. List of Identifiers

D. List of Processes

E. List of Port Numbers

E.1 Port numbers of PFM - Agent for Platform

E.2 Firewall passage directions

F. Properties of PFM - Agent for Platform

F.1 Agent Store service properties

F.2 Agent Collector service properties

G. List of Files and Directories

H. Migration Procedure and Notes on Migration

I. Version Compatibility

J. Outputting Action Log Data

J.1 Types of events output to the action log

J.2 Format for saving the action log files

J.3 Format of output action log data

J.4 Settings for outputting action log data

K. Version Changes

K.1 Changes in 09-00

K.2 Changes in 08-11

K.3 Changes in version 08-00

K.4 Changes in version 07-00

L. Glossary

Index

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