STM - System Tools Management

[augusto cossa]

Good day all forum users.

Is there anybody who knows about the licences for STM (System Tool Management)? Where to by or is it for free?

thanks for help

Augusto

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

http://software.hp.com/SUPPORT_PLUS/

Note you'll only have a general user
licence the HP only is for stress testing
destructive etc.. and firmware upgrade

Its free

Later,
Bill

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Its better known as Support Tools Manager
or Online Diag or mesa
It shouldn't require a reboot.

more specifically for the link you need to
go to
Support Tools (diagnostics) - Tools for verifying, troubleshooting, and monitoring HP 9000 system CPUs, interface cards and peripherals.

on the previous post link


http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B6191AAE

[Frederic Soriano]

Augusto,

STM (as found on Support CD) is free. Some tools (Tools menu) are for HP use only, and are password protected, but general use of STM is free.

Best regards.

Fred.

[augusto cossa]

Hi'

What I really need is your suggest concerning tools (best or the best) to be used to monitor HP-UX 9000 server (performance,troubleshooting, etc...etc..)

Thanks,

Augusto

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

This really depends on the hardware.
STM is hardware oriented.
It'll tell you for example what the configuration of a Clariion Disk Array is
and what disks are in what LUNs if caching is on or off and which LVM link you should use to
access the Lun. You'll do this via
tools-info-run.

Also it'll tell you what current firmware revision is on the component.. it's up to you to decide if it's worth upgrading and typically
up to a HP CE to do it.

Relating to performance you can find out if in memory there is single bit parity errors detected, lan cards if there is frame tx and rx
errors and so on. It is not really going to tell you how and why you should retune your kernel.

I find it really usefull for the Disk Arrays,
the Nike20 FC30 FC60 and AutoRAID where balancing data across two controllers can make a big perf difference. However, this can be done by other means too... ioscan, array utility and lvm analysis.

STM is most usefull for trouble shooting not
for perf analysis. You want to get glance to
analyse your perf.

Thats not free but on trial.
http://managementsoftware.hp.com/products/glanceplus/index.asp

http://managementsoftware.hp.com/Uploads/Papers_UPLOAD-75.asp

Later,
Bill