HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits

The Workload Manager Toolkits (WLMTK) product version A.01.10.01 enhances functionality provided by WLM and simplifies the integration of various products with WLM. These products include Apache, Oracle database instances, SAP, SAS, SNMP, and WebLogic.

Summary of Change

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

Workload Manager Toolkits (WLMTK) product version A.01.10.01 includes the following changes:

Provides the new HP-UX WLM SAP Toolkit, which includes the script wlmsapmap that identifies SAP processes based on user-defined criteria and uses WLM’s process maps feature to place the SAP processes in specific workload groups
Product label changed from T1302AA to WLMToolkits
The Pay per use Toolkit (PPUTK) and the utilitydc command are no longer supported and have been removed from the product. Please use the simpler and more robust Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP)/Pay per use (PPU) solution available with wlmpard.
WLM Toolkit for Base SAS Software (SASTK) will be deprecated in a future release
However, a new and improved SASTK will be made available and will include a white paper and example configuration files.
Duration Management Toolkit (DMTK) will be deprecated in a future release
The toolkit, including its wlmdurdc command, will be deprecated in a future release. Support for the wlmdurdc command will be removed in a future release. In the meantime, for documentation, see the wlmdurdc(1M) manpage.

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

Workload Manager Toolkits (WLMTK) product version A.01.10.01 includes the following changes:

Product label changed from T1302AA to WLMToolkits
The Pay per use Toolkit (PPUTK) and the utilitydc command are no longer supported and have been removed from the product. Please use the simpler and more robust Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP)/Pay per use (PPU) solution available with wlmpard.
WLM Toolkit for Base SAS Software (SASTK) will be deprecated in a future release
However, a new and improved SASTK will be made available and will include a white paper and example configuration files.
Duration Management Toolkit (DMTK) will be deprecated in a future release
The toolkit, including its wlmdurdc command, will be deprecated in a future release. Support for the wlmdurdc command will be removed in a future release. In the meantime, for documentation, see the wlmdurdc(1M) manpage.

Impact

Users of the PPUTK will have to migrate to the new solution. SASTK and DMTK users should be aware of the deprecation of those toolkits.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

The wlmtk(5) manpage provides an overview of the toolkits and lists all the other manpages.
At the http://www.hp.com/go/wlm product Web site, the “Information library” page lists white papers.
The following documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netsys/index.html#HP-UX%20Workload%20Manager:
- HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits User’s Guide
- HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits Version A.01.10.01 Release Notes

Obsolescence

PPUTK is obsoleted, and SASTK and DMTK are deprecated.