HP OpenVMS Systems Documentation

HP Availability Manager User's Guide

You can sort data in many OpenVMS displays, for example:

• Event pane of the Application window (Figure 2-1)
• CPU Process Summary pane (Figure 3-8)
• Memory page (Figure 3-10)
• Bottom pane of I/O Summary page (Figure 3-12)
• Disk Status Summary page (Figure 3-14)
• Disk Volume Summary page (Figure 3-16)

Depending on the field, you can sort data alphabetically or numerically. An alphabetical sort is performed using ASCII character values; for example, dollar signs ($) precede letters in the sort order.

To sort the values in a field, double-click the corresponding column heading. To reverse the sort order, double-click the column heading again.

2.5 Getting Help

To obtain online help, click the Help menu on the Application window menu bar. Then choose one of the following options:

The Availability Manager does not provide a printscreen capability. However, you can capture Availability Manager pages and print them by following these steps:

1. Display the Availability Manager page in your active window.
2. Press the key combination Alt + PrintScreen .
   This action copies the image of the page displayed into your copy buffer. (To capture the entire screen, press Ctrl + PrintScreen .)
3. Run the Windows Paint program:

   Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> Paint

4. Do one of the following:
   • Press the key combination Ctrl + V .
   • From Paint's Edit menu, select Paste .
5. Then do one of the following:
   • Select an option from Paint's File menu. For example:
     • Save or Save As...: to name the file containing the image and place it in a directory that you specify.
     • Print: to print the image on a printer that you select.
   • Use one of Paint's editing options to edit the image before saving or printing it.

Node summary data is the only data that is collected by default. The Availability Manager looks for events only in data that is being collected.

You can collect additional data in either of the following ways:

• Opening any display page that contains node-specific data (for example, CPU, memory, I/O) automatically starts foreground data collection and event analysis except for Lock Contention and Cluster Summary information. (You must select these tabs individually to start foreground data collection.) Collection and evaluation continue as long as a page with node-specific data is displayed.
• Clicking a check mark on the Data Collection Customization page (which you can select on the Customize OpenVMS menu) enables background collection of that type of data. Data is collected and events are analyzed continuously until you remove the check mark.

See Chapter 1 and Chapter 7 for details.

This chapter describes the node data that the Availability Manager displays by default and more detailed data that you can choose to display. Differences are noted whenever information displayed for OpenVMS nodes differs from that displayed for Windows nodes.

Although Cluster Summary is one of the tabs displayed on the OpenVMS Node Summary page (see Figure 3-4), see Chapter 4 for a detailed discussion of OpenVMS Cluster data.

3.1 Node Panes

Figure 3-1 OpenVMS Node Pane

Recall that the colors of the icons represent the following states:

The following sections describe the data displayed for OpenVMS and Windows Node panes.

3.1.1 OpenVMS Node Pane

Node pane data displayed in red on your screen indicates that the amount is above the threshold set for that field. For each OpenVMS node and group it recognizes, the Availability Manager displays the data described in Table 3-1. This table also lists the abbreviation of the event that is related to each type of data, where applicable. See Section 7.6 for information about setting event thresholds. Appendix B describes OpenVMS and Windows events.

Note that you can sort the order in which data is displayed in the Node Pane by clicking a column header. To reverse the sort order of a column of data, click the column header again.

By holding the cursor over many column headers and some data items on Availability Manager screens, you can display a tooltip. Figure 3-2 is an example of a tooltip that explains the CPU Queues column header in the Node Pane.

Figure 3-2 Sample Tooltip

Figure 3-3 is an example of a Windows Node pane. From the group you select, the Availability Manager displays all the nodes with which it can communicate.

Figure 3-3 Windows Node Pane

For each Windows node in the group, the Availability Manager displays the data shown in Table 3-2.

The following sections describe node data pages, which you can display in any of the following ways:

• Double-click a data item in the Node pane to display an associated page.
• Double-click a node name on the Node pane to display the Node Summary page (Figure 3-4). You can then click other tabs on the Node Summary page to display the same detailed data that you display by double-clicking a data item in the Node pane.
• Double-click an event in the Event pane.

The menu bar on each node data page contains the options described in Table 3-3.

The following sections describe individual node data pages.

3.2.1 Node Summary

When you double-click a node name, operating system (OS) version, or hardware model in an OpenVMS or Windows Node pane, the Availability Manager displays the Node Summary page (Figure 3-4).

Figure 3-4 Node Summary Page

On this page, the following information is displayed for the node selected:

By clicking the CPU tab, you can display CPU panes that contain more detailed statistics about CPU mode usage and process summaries than the Node Summary does. You can use the CPU panes to diagnose issues that CPU-intensive users or CPU bottlenecks might cause. For OpenVMS nodes, you can also display information about specific CPU processes.

When you double-click a value under the CPU or CPU Qs heading on either an OpenVMS or a Windows Node pane, or when you click the CPU tab, the Availability Manager displays the CPU Modes Summary in the top pane and, by default in the bottom pane, CPU Modes Detail. You can use the View menu to select the CPU Process Summary in the bottom pane (see Section 3.2.2.4).

CPU modes summaries and process summary panes are described in the following sections. Note that there are differences between the pages displayed for OpenVMS and Windows nodes.

3.2.2.1 Windows CPU Modes

Figure 3-5 Windows CPU Modes Page

The top pane of the Windows CPU Modes page is a summary of Windows CPU usage, listed by type of mode.

On the left, the following CPU modes are listed:

• User
• Privileged
• Null

On the graph, values that exceed thresholds are displayed in red. To the right of the graph are current and extreme amounts for each mode.

Current and extreme amounts are also displayed for the following values:

• Deferred procedure calls (DPCs) queued per second
• Interrupts that occurred per second

The bottom pane of the Windows CPU Modes contains modes details. The following data is displayed:

Figure 3-6 shows sample OpenVMS CPU Modes summary and CPU Process States, which are the left and right top panes of the CPU Modes page.

Figure 3-6 OpenVMS CPU Modes Summary and Process States Pane

CPU Modes Summary

In the CPU modes section of the pane, percentages are averaged across all the CPUs and are displayed as a single value on symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) nodes.

To the left of the graph is a list of CPU modes. The bars in the graph represent the percentage of CPU cycles used for each mode. Values that are lower than the thresholds are displayed in green; values that exceed thresholds are displayed in red. To the right of the graph are current and extreme percentages of time spent in each mode.

Below the graph, the Availability Manager displays the COM and WAIT process queues:

• COM: The value displayed is the number of processes in the COM and COMO states.
• WAIT: The value displayed is the number of processes in the miscellaneous WAIT, COLPG, CEF, PFW, and FPG states.

CPU Process States

The right side of Figure 3-6 shows a sample CPU Process States display.

Appendix A contains explanations of the CPU process states. Note that the value for MWAIT, in the left column, is the sum of all values for the states in the two right columns.

3.2.2.3 OpenVMS CPU Modes Detail

The bottom pane of the CPU Modes page contains CPU modes details, as shown in Figure 3-7.

Figure 3-7 OpenVMS CPU Modes Detail Pane

In the OpenVMS CPU Modes Detail pane, the following data is displayed: