topic Re: which is best monitoring tool in Operating System - HP-UX

which is best monitoring tool

Shivkumar — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:22:30 GMT

Hi there,

I am looking out for best monitoring tools such as glanceplus or measureware etc. Can anyone suggest which is the best tool available on hpux 11i ?

Thanks.
Shiv

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Simon Hargrave — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:27:31 GMT

You say "monitoring" I assume you mean performance monitoring, in which case you just listed the "best" in your question. These tools have access to the kernel performance structure directly so give a better indication of system performance than the traditional unix tools, sar, top etc.

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Bharat Katkar — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:27:55 GMT

Hi,
I will rate for GlancePlus.
Regards,

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Borislav Perkov — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:39:40 GMT

Hi Shiv,

For me it is Glance, you can try it for evaluation period and you have it on HP-UX CD's.

Regards,
Borislav

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Sanjay_6 — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:40:09 GMT

Hi,

Measureware is a very good tool for getting the historical performance data from the system. Glanceplus is useful for real-time monitoring.

Combined together you can have everything you need in this. It is now supplied as a single bundle (Glanceplus Pak) by HP. Remember it is a $$ product.

Hope this helps.

Regds

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Shahul — Mon, 23 May 2005 08:41:31 GMT

Hi,

Performance monitoring....it's always an interesting task...

As you mentioned, the best tools for HP Unix are either Glance plus or Perf view. The IInd one may be better in presentation. Even if we go for any other PT tools, they all collecting data from HP Unix's own utilities.

You can shoot right on the target if you have clear and accurate performance stats.

Best of luck
Shahul

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Emil Velez — Tue, 24 May 2005 15:46:37 GMT

The previous people who replied to the message mention all of the tools but you need to understand the difference.

Glance shows realtime what is going on now. IT does not collect any data. It is showing you what is going on now updated every 5-15 seconds. It displays about 1500 metrics in its various reports and screens. You can create a file called advisor.syntax that allows you to generate alarms that are displayed in glance.

the Openview Performance Agent (formerly called Measureware) collects about 400 metrics every 5 minutes and process related data every 1 minute for "interesting" processes. using a command called utility and extract you can view some or all of the data that is stored. The OVPA can store as much data as you configure it to store. You can configure alarms in a file called "alarmdef" that allows you to send a snmp trap, opcmsg or a operating system command when a alarm happens.

Data from the OVPA can be displayed with a product called Openview Performance Manager a web based GUI that displays the data collected from the OVPA remotely and that way you can compare data from different systems. This graphing tool is very easy to use. Other responders have mentioned Perfview which is the older version of OVPM that is obsolete.

I hope this helps.

Emil Velez

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Rick Garland — Tue, 24 May 2005 16:22:26 GMT

If you are looking for low-cost (or free) products you might want to look at Big Brother and/or Nagios. They do run on HPUX buty you will need to do some configuration. In contract, Glance and OVPA do not require as much configuration. But then again, if cost is an issue...

Re: which is best monitoring tool

Naveej.K.A — Wed, 25 May 2005 06:13:24 GMT

Shiv,

Have a look at this thread...

Answers to all type of performance monitoring tools.
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=342346

Regards,
--Naveej