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HP GlancePlus software

HP GlancePlus software arms your organization with powerful

system performance monitoring and diagnostic capabilities.
Itenables you to easily examine system activities, identify and
resolve performance bottlenecks, and tune your system for
more efficient operation.
Keep your applications running smoothly
HP GlancePlus
HP GlancePlus software provides powerful server performance monitoring and diagnostic
capabilities on all major UNIX systems, including Linux! It enables you to easily examine
system activities, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. With the unique drill-down
capabilities of HP GlancePlus, you can examine your system and application behavior to an
incredible level of detail.

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HP Performance Agent
HP Performance Agent software collects and maintains a comprehensive history of your
systems performance and sends alarms of impending performance problems. Using
HPPerformance Agent, you can pinpoint trends in system activities. This allows you to balance
workloads and accurately plan for future system growth.
HP Performance Agent gives you the data you need to effectively analyze, understand, and
make informed decisions about your computing environment. (For more detailed performance
information, see the HP Performance Agent and Performance Manager software data sheet.)
HP GlancePlus Pak
HP GlancePlus Pak combines the real-time diagnostic and monitoring capabilities of
HPGlancePlus with the historical data collection and analysis of HP Performance Agent
software. This bundle of complementary products provides an ideal solution to manage the
availability and performance of a single system, while retaining valuable historical information
for use with enterprise management products, such as HP Performance Manager software and
HP Operations Manager software.
With the HP GlancePlus Pak, you can handle a wide range of system performance and
availability problems, resulting in more efficient use of your resources.
Figure 1. HP GlancePlus on Integrity virtual machine host: Reporting on all guests

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HP GlancePlus benefits
HP GlancePlus provides broad business benefits by helping to:
Keep business applications running smoothly and efficiently
HP GlancePlus software allows you to identify and solve performance problems quickly. If you
suspect a problem, you can examine how different software applications and users are using
system resources. You can view detailed information on individual processes, including CPU and
memory use and time spent waiting for different system resources.
You can group users and processes into applications, and use these groupings to efficiently
determine their impact on system resources. You can also view performance information about
individual logical systems in a virtualized environment. With this information, you can quickly
get a picture of how your systems major resources are being used and who is using them.
On-screen alarms notify you of developing problems when customizable system performance
thresholds are exceeded. This allows you to address problems before they impact users and
business processes. In addition, the rules-based adviser in HP GlancePlus uses its customizable
system performance rules to help you quickly identify system performance problems and
bottlenecks.
Save time and effort managing your system resources
HP GlancePlus software provides information that enables you to identify and resolve problems
quickly, and to choose alternative system and kernel configurations or processing priorities.
HPGlancePlus has a motif-based interface that is easy to learn and use. In addition, the help
facility gives you a quick start in using the product and interpreting performance data without
having to search through volumes of manuals.
HP GlancePlus software offers extensive configurability allowing you to tailor your solution
to best suit your needs and work style. You can set filters based on thresholds on any of the
displayed performance metrics (such as CPU utilization and disk input/output rate). This allows
you to see only the most active processes.

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You can define color highlighting on process data that exceeds user-defined thresholds. This
helps you quickly identify processes or users that are having the greatest impact on your
systems performance. You can run HP GlancePlus as an icon and have alarms and dynamic
system performance graphs displayed within the icon, allowing you to efficiently keep an eye on
your systems performance while attending to other tasks.
Better understand your computing environment
Using HP GlancePlus, you are more aware of how your systems and software programs interact.
By using its ability to group related programs and users into applications, you can efficiently
assess and track system resource usage by related processes or users. The CPU, disk, and
memory detail screens give you a detailed view of system activity. You can view disk I/O rates
and queue lengths by disk device, file system, or by logical volume, to determine whether your
disks are in balance.
You can also see how much disk activity is due to virtual memory I/O and swapping. By using the
displays of short-term history and averages, you get a view of your systems performance that
extends beyond the last interval. HP GlancePlus software allows you to monitor your virtualized
environment by providing performance details of individual logical systems.

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Summary of featured information for HP GlancePlus software

Global information
CPU

Percent of CPU utilized by system and user activity

CPU detail

CPU utilization both globally and per processor on multiprocessor systems

CPU utilization by user processes broken out by standard-run priorities
CPU run queue lengths, system call counts, and activity rates of interrupts and context switches

Input/output (I/O)

Disk I/O rate by file system, virtual memory, and raw activity

I/O detail

Physical reads and writes per disk and file system

Disk utilization and physical I/Os broken out by user, virtual memory, and raw categories
Queue lengths of each disk device
File system capacity and file system space utilization

Logical volume detail

Read and writes, counts, and bytes per logical volume

Memory

Paging rates: pages in and pages out

Memory detail

Percent of available physical memory utilized by system and user processes

Physical, available, and free memory
Page faults, page I/Os, swap I/Os, virtual memory reads and writes, and cache size

Network

Packets in, packets out, collisions and errors

Network detail

Packets in, packets out, and collisions and errors for each LAN device

Swap

Percent of enabled swap space that has been reserved and is active

Swap detail

Swap space available and used, and percent utilization by device and file system

System tables

Amount of system table resources available and used, including nbuf, nproc, nfile, and shmem

System attributes

System CPU type, OS release, configuration information, including number of CPUs, disks, LAN cards, Logical Volume
Manager volume groups, and physical memory

NFS detail

NFS reads and writes byte rates and response time, both inbound and outbound, for all clients or servers that are
communicating with the host NFS in and out operation counts for the node

Application information
Application summary

CPU, I/O, and virtual memory utilization by application, number of processes, number of active processes, and major
faults per application

Application detail

CPU utilization per application broken down by user CPU and system CPU
Tabular report of short-term history of CPU, I/O, and virtual memory utilization by application

Process information
Process summary

For all processes: process and parent process identification numbers, run priority, user name, CPU utilization, disk I/O
rate, resident set size, and resource the process is waiting on

Process detail

For each process: detailed information on CPU, disk, memory utilization, and open files

Logical system information

Logical system list

Display the summary of all the logical systems configured in a virtualized environment

Logical system details

For each logical system, detailed information on resource allocation, CPU and memory utilization, uptime, etc.,

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HP GlancePlus also helps you monitor your LAN, enabling you to identify networking problems
that are affecting the performance of your systems and applications. HP GlancePlus graphs give
you the information you need to quickly assess how your system is performing. Whether you
manage multiuser systems or a network of workstations, HP GlancePlus enables you to more
efficiently understand and manage your computing environments.

HP GlancePlus features
Identify system performance bottlenecksUse the HP GlancePlus rules-based adviser
to interpret performance data and identify bottlenecks. The default rules handle a variety of
system conditions.
Configure/customize graphical displaysSelect from extensive choices for display options,
colors, and fonts. Define the data sample intervals and durations for the graphs.
Monitor with threshold-based alarmsProactively manage your computer system by using
alarms. Use the default alarm thresholds or define your own to meet the particular needs of
your environment.
Get quick answers to your questions using the online help facilityUse the guided tour to
learn about how HP GlancePlus software is used. Use the on-item help to get answers quickly to
your questions on specific items on the HP GlancePlus screen report.
Track CPU, memory, disk, and network resources Graphical and tabular on-screen color
reports show your systems performance and resource utilization in real time. HP GlancePlus
software can also display a short-term history of these measurements.
Track logical systems and resource utilization in a virtualized environmentView the
list of logical systems and drill down by selecting a particular logical system to view the details
about resources allocated and utilized on that system.

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View the level of metrics that gives you the detail you needMetrics are displayed at the
global, application, or process level.
Create customized tabular data displaysDefine the order of the data columns and sort
criteria. Define filters to see only the processes that are of interest to you and color-highlight
those that meet conditions that you define. Select the metrics you want to display.
Monitor system performance while tending to other tasksRun HP GlancePlus as an icon
and use the dynamic graphs displayed in the icon to keep an eye on the performance of your
systems.

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Comprehensive training
HP provides a comprehensive curriculum of HP Software and IT Service Management courses.
These offerings provide the training you need to realize the full potential of your HP solutions,
increase your network optimization and responsiveness, and achieve better return on your IT
investments.
With more than 30 years experience meeting complex education challenges worldwide, HP
knows training. This experience, coupled with unique insights into HP Software products,
positions HP to deliver the optimum training experience. For more information about these and
other educational courses, visit: hp.com/learn

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