Performance graphing help

[Sean Murray_1]

Hi. My company has me testing things with our existing software. We are Using HP OpenView (specifically HP Operations for Unix console) and HP SIM.
With the core HP SIM product can I produce some sort of performace graph based on machine or by cpu, network activity, etc., or do I need a plugin, need to buy additional software, etc.?

[Rob Buxton]

Specifically from Insight Manager, no.

There's a Performance plugin for Proliant Servers (Proliant Performance Management Pack) but you mention Unix so you may need to tell us a bit more about your environement.

[Sean Murray_1]

Well, in addtion to SIM, we are using HP Openview.
I figured we would need the performance management pack to use with SIM.
But since we cannot with that, would it be possible to create a graph using the HP OV Operations for Unix console? Not a big Unix user, but this is what I have on my PC and they want me to try and create a graph, which I cannot do. I have an Eval for the HP OV performance monitor, but they want me to try this without any new software to buy if possible.

[Ronald Kowalka]

In HP SIM, you might also want to look at Reports\Snapshot comparison. In this feature you select one device as the baseline for the selected categories. Then select one or more target systems and run the comparison. You would then receive report output on the differences. systems should be like-systems.

[Rob Buxton]

You might want to ask the questions in the OV forum.

Under the default SIM you're not going to be able to graph performance related information.
You can select data from the database and graph that, but that would be more useful for capacity planning etc. as it's largely historical info. I do that for disk space utilisation.