HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual

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Complete the following steps to select the duration:
1.

Click PA and DB Settings+User Settings in the left pane.

The User Settings screen appears.

2.

In the Data Analysis Settings section, select the duration from the drop-down list. You can
select a maximum of seven days. By default, HP XP7 Performance Advisor considers a duration
of two days for the prediction.

3.

Click Save.

HP XP7 Performance Advisor does the following:

1.

Analyzes

the average read and write response time for the LDEVs that belong to all

the

XP/XP7 disk arrays, or a combination of these arrays.

2.

Displays a

on the Troubleshooting screen for the LDEVs that have a peak

load in their average read and write responses.

Related Topics

See

“Viewing variations in the LDEV response time” (page 336)

.

Receiving email notifications when HP XP7 Performance Advisor services
fail

The HP XP7 Performance Advisor Monitor service periodically monitors the statuses of the following
services and accordingly notifies the intended email recipients:

HP XP7 Performance Advisor Tomcat service

HP XP7 Performance Advisor Database service

HP XP7 Performance Advisor Database Listener service

To receive email notifications, you must configure certain SMTP parameters. For more information,
see

“Configuring SMTP parameters” (page 83)

.

IMPORTANT:

The HP XP7 Performance Advisor Monitor service does not monitor the HP XP7

Performance Advisor Security service.

Notification for HP XP7 Performance Advisor Tomcat service failure

During the course of monitoring, if the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Monitor service identifies that
the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Tomcat service has abruptly stopped or failed to start, it does the
following:

1.

Attempts to restart the HP XP7 Performance Advisor Tomcat service 'n' number of times, where
'n' indicates the retry count that is specified.

By default, the retry count is set to five, which means that five attempts are made to restart the
HP XP7 Performance Advisor Tomcat service before a notification is dispatched. For more
information on specifying the retry count, see

“Configuring retry count” (page 83)

.

2.

Intimates the intended recipients on the success or failure of the restart attempts, such as the
following:

Tomcat Server was not running on management station, Restart of the service was
successful after 'n' attempt.

Tomcat Server was not running on management station, Restart of the service was not
successful after 'n' attempt.

In such a case, the appropriate reason for the failure is logged in the
paservicesstatus.log

file located in the <Install_drive>:\HPSS\paMonitor\

logs

folder. You will have to contact HP Support for further assistance along with the

paservicesstatus.log

file.

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Configuring common settings for HP XP7 Performance Advisor

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