Document Outline

• HP P6000 Performance Advisor User Guide
• Contents
• 1 HP P6000 Performance Advisor overview
  • Features
• 2 Getting started
  • Deploying and installing HP P6000 Performance Advisor
  • Configuring HP P6000 Performance Advisor
• 3 SPoG interface and common tasks
  • Understanding the SPoG interface
  • HP P6000 Performance Advisor common tasks
    • Using the Restore Defaults option
    • Using the Display option
    • Using the Filter by list
    • Additional tasks
• 4 HP P6000 Performance Advisor concepts
  • Object type folders and Storage object nodes
  • Dashboard
    • KPIs
  • Key Metrics
  • Charts
  • Reports
  • Load Distribution
    • Load distribution across controllers
      • Live Data Metrics
      • Historical Data Metrics
    • Load distribution across host ports
  • Performance and state data
  • Statistical data
  • Database maintenance
  • Host connections
  • Data replication tunnels
  • Threshold monitoring
    • Overview
    • Threshold summary value
    • Threshold monitoring methods
    • Factors for setting threshold levels
    • Threshold alarm email notifications
• 5 Quick tour of HP P6000 Performance Advisor pages
  • Settings page
    • Settings – Configuration page
    • Settings – Database page
    • Settings – Events page
    • Settings – Storage Systems page
      • Storage Systems – <storage system> page
      • <Storage system> – <performance object type> page
  • Storage Systems page
    • Storage Systems – <object type> page
    • <Object type> – <performance object> page
• 6 Working with HP P6000 Performance Advisor
  • Configuring monitoring settings in HP P6000 Performance Advisor
    • Using the Quick Setup
    • Adding an HP P6000 Performance Data Collector instance
    • Adding performance objects for monitoring
      • Adding storage systems
      • Adding other performance objects
      • Parameters in the Select <Performance Object> window
    • Adding threshold and dashboard profiles
      • Adding threshold profiles
      • Adding dashboard profiles
    • Configuring dashboard settings
    • Configuring additional settings
      • Report settings
      • Chart settings
      • Key Metric settings
      • SMTP and SNMP notification settings
        • Configure email and SNMP settings
        • Configure SNMP settings
        • Exporting MIB file
        • Sample email notification
        • Sample SNMP notifications
  • Managing configured settings in HP P6000 Performance Advisor
    • Managing HP P6000 Performance Data Collector settings
      • Viewing configured HP P6000 Performance Data Collector instances
      • Editing the port number of HP P6000 Performance Data Collector instances
      • Removing configured HP P6000 Performance Data Collector instances
    • Viewing HP P6000 Command View instances
    • Managing configured settings for performance objects
      • Viewing configured monitoring settings for storage systems
      • Viewing configured monitoring settings for other performance objects
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for virtual disks
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for hosts
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for disk groups
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for data replication groups
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for controllers
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for host ports
        • Viewing configured monitoring settings for physical disks
      • Editing monitored settings for a storage system or performance object
      • Removing storage system or performance object records
      • Starting or stopping data collection for a storage system
      • Updating the object state for a storage system
      • Viewing configured dashboard settings
    • Managing configured threshold profiles
      • Viewing configured threshold profiles
      • Editing a configured threshold profile
      • Removing threshold profiles
      • Removing custom threshold profiles
    • Managing configured dashboard profiles
      • Viewing configured dashbaord profiles
      • Editing a configured dashboard profile
      • Removing dashboard profiles
    • Managing additional settings
      • Email and SNMP notification settings
    • Viewing a summary of configured monitoring settings
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for storage systems
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for virtual disks
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for hosts
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for disk groups
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for data replication groups
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for controllers and host ports
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for physical disks
      • Summary of configured monitoring settings for storage systems
    • Viewing the HP P6000 Performance Advisor configuration summary
    • Licensing behavior in HP P6000 Performance Advisor
  • Viewing performance metrics of storage systems
    • Viewing the Dashboard Overview
      • Storage System – Live Host Port Throughput and Latency Values
      • Correlation between color blocks and status icons – Live bar chart
      • Understanding a live bar chart
      • Storage System level performance charts
        • Host Port IOPS Historical chart
        • Host Port IO Latencies chart
        • Threshold Summary chart
        • Correlation between color blocks and status icons – Threshold Summary chart
        • Understanding tool tip - Threshold Summary chart
        • Understanding the Threshold Summary chart
      • Key Performance Indicators – Dashboard
      • Dashboard counters
    • Viewing the Dashboard Host Port Performance
      • Live Data
      • Historical Statistical Data
      • Charts
    • Viewing and managing the Dashboard KPIs
      • Adding KPI records
      • Viewing KPI records
      • Removing KPI records
    • Viewing a threshold summary
      • Threshold summary for a storage system
        • Threshold summary table
        • Understanding tool tip
        • Interpretation of the threshold summary – Storage system
      • Threshold summary for an object type
        • Viewing records for a state
        • Interpretation of the threshold summary – object type
      • Threshold summary for a performance object
        • Using Edit threshold profile settings link
        • Interpretation of the threshold summary – performance object
    • Viewing a summary of key metrics
      • Key metric summary for storage systems
      • Key metric summary for object types
      • Key metric summary for a performance object
      • Editing key metric chart settings
    • Viewing charts
      • Chart views
      • Opening a chart in a new window
      • Printing charts
      • Saving charts
      • Zooming in and out on charts
    • Managing charts
      • Adding charts
      • Editing chart settings
      • Removing charts
    • Viewing and managing reports
      • Reports history
      • Report templates
        • Creating a report template
        • Editing a report template
        • Executing a report template
        • Removing a report template
      • Predefined templates
• 7 Managing the event log
  • Viewing the event log
  • Event categories
  • Event severity levels
  • Exporting events
• 8 Maintaining database
  • HP P6000 Performance Advisor database summary
  • Exporting storage system data
  • Viewing export database records
  • Removing export records
  • Purging data
  • Viewing purge history
  • Re-purging data
  • Cleaning purge history
  • Data backup and restore
• 9 Troubleshooting HP P6000 Performance Advisor issues
  • Troubleshooting scenarios
  • Error messages
    • Setup and configuration
    • Database purge
    • Database export
    • Key Metrics
    • Events
    • Threshold monitoring
    • Reports
    • Management Integration Framework
    • Dashboard and charts
    • Contacting HP support
• 10 Support and other resources
  • Release history
  • Contacting HP
  • HP Insight Remote Support
  • Related information
• A Object types and properties
• B Use cases
  • Setting up dashboard
  • Determining threshold monitoring values
• C Counters in HP P6000 Performance Advisor
  • Derived counters definitions
  • Supported counters
• D Event codes
• E Viewing CSV report using HP TLViz
• F HP P6000 Performance Advisor deployment architecture
• Glossary
• Index