HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak

GlancePlus Pak, version C.04.55, integrates the HP OpenView GlancePlus and HP OpenView Performance Agent for HP-UX (OVPA) products into a single tool to help customers better manage the performance and availability of their servers.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

This release includes the following enhancements:

For both OVPA and GlancePlus:
- This release of HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak is supported on HP-UX 11i v3
- Support for large process IDs
- Enhancement to record the Logical Volume (LV) metrics for Veritas Volume Manager, versions VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0
- The following new metrics are included for monitoring the Unified File Cache (UFC):
  GBL_MEM_FILE_PAGE_CACHE
  GBL_MEM_FILE_PAGE_CACHE_UTIL
- The following new disk metrics have been included to record the Service time and Queue time for the disks:
  BYDSK_AVG_QUEUE_TIME
  BYDSK_AVG_READ_QUEUE_TIME
  BYDSK_AVG_WRITE_QUEUE_TIME
  BYDSK_AVG_WRITE_SERVICE_TIME
  BYDSK_AVG_READ_SERVICE_TIME
For GlancePlus
This release of GlancePlus is enhanced to monitor and report the performance statistics of Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) cards. A new class of metrics, “BYHBA” is added to record the performance of HBA cards. For more information, refer to the Dictionary of Performance Metrics available in the location /opt/perf/paperdocs/C/gp/gp-metrics.txt

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?”

Impact

Refer to the Release Notes of each product (GlancePlus and OpenView Performance Agent) in /opt/perf/ReleaseNotes/, or at the following Web site: http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

Please refer to the release notes of each product (GlancePlus and OpenView Performance Agent) in /opt/perf/ReleaseNotes/, or at the following site: http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/

Obsolescence

Not applicable.