Performance Counters on HP-UX?

[Stefan Kiel]

Hello,

we have implemented a server application running on Windows. It is not running inside TomCat or something else, but it is a binary itself. On Windows, we have defined our own proprietary performance counters and we keep them up to date. This allows the Administrator to see our performance counters together with the ones collected by the operating system in the Performance Monitor.

Now we are porting our application to HP-UX 11. Is there something similar like custom performance counters on HP-UX?

Thanks for your advice

Stefan

[Rita C Workman]

HPUX has a "few" metrics found in the OpenView product MeasureWare.

Regards,
Rita

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Stefan,

For those users with the HP Performance Agent installed (which is a lot of users on HP-UX. You'll see the product alternatively called "Performance Agent", "Openview Performance Agent", "Vantage Point Operations Performance Agent" or "Measureware" - although vthis is all the same thing), I expect you might want to look at Data Source Integration as described in the guide here:

http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM316156/binary/ovpa47_dsi_pdf

(You might need a HP passport sign-in to get at that, but they're freely available)

This being UNIX of course, we're never happy with njust opne answer though, there will always be admins who want to be able to get this data from a log file along with timestamps, and those who will want to run a command to get it piped on stdout as well, so you would do well to look at something that produces output similar to sar. Try running "sar -u 2 10" and "sar -d 2 10" for examples of single and multi-row outputs for a system.

HTH

Duncan

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Stefan,

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=6

These scripts might be helpful in monitoring performance.

This one in monitoring application resident memory use.

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=8

SEP

[Emil Velez]

Measureware(OVPA) has a technology called DSI (data source integration) which allows you to collect any data into measureware.

What you need is a way to output to standard output your data via some diagnostic command for your application.

[dirk dierickx]

you can also use ARM when ovpa is installed.