HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak

GlancePlus Pak, version 4.60, 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

This release includes the following enhancements:

For OVPA:
- Support for HP Virtual Machine 2.0
  Ability to monitor HP Virtual Machine (HPVM) version 2.0 guests from the HPVM host system. A new class of metrics, BYLS, is introduced for the HPVM host, to record the configuration and resource utilization metrics for the Virtual Machines.
- Configurable Logging Intervals
  Ability to configure the process interval between ranges of 5-60 seconds.
  Ability to configure interval for other intervalized classes to 15, 30, 60, or 300 seconds.
- Additional Logging Thresholds
  Logging thresholds for process data. The procthreshold is equivalent to threshold, which was available with earlier releases. Logging thresholds for additional data classes (such as, application and device data) are added:
  application data, appthreshold.
  disk data, diskthreshold.
  netif data, bynetifthreshold.
  file system data, fsthreshold.
  cpu data, bycputhreshold.
  logical volumes, lvthreshold.
- Flush Interval
  Ability to request a data flush interval for application and device data classes.
  Ability to record/log ALL instances of application and device data periodically, including instances which are considered “uninteresting” based on the threshold criteria specified.
For GlancePlus:
This release of GlancePlus has the following features:
- Supported on HP-UX 11i v1 and later
- gpm has been renamed as xglance. gpm is retained for backward compatibility.
- Ability to monitor HP Virtual Machine (HPVM) version 2.0 guests from the HPVM host system. A new class of metrics, BYLS, is introduced for the HPVM host, to record the configuration and resource utilization metrics for the Virtual Machines.
- glance and xglance have new screens to support the BYLS class of metrics.




	NOTE: HPVM 1.0 is not supported by HP OpenView Performance Agent (OVPA) and GlancePlus. For a list of new metrics added in this release, refer to the Release Notes of each product (GlancePlus and Performance Agent) in `/opt/perf/ReleaseNotes/`, or at the following Web site: `http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/`.

Impact

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

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

See the documentation of each product (GlancePlus, Performance Agent) at the following site: http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/.

Obsolescence

Not applicable.