HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

HP Performance Agent
About HP Performance Agent
About HP Performance Agent
HP Performance Agent collects, summarizes, time stamps, and detects
alarm conditions on current and historical resource data across your
system. It provides performance, resource, and end-to-end transaction
response time measurements, and supports network and database
measurement information.
Integrating Data with HP Performance Agent
Data collected outside HP Performance Agent can be integrated using
data source integration (DSI) capabilities. For example, network,
database, and your own application data can be integrated through DSI.
The data is treated the same as data collected by HP Performance Agent.
All DSI data is logged, time stamped, and can be alarmed on.
Analyzing Data with HP Performance Agent
All of the data collected or received by HP Performance Agent can be
analyzed using spreadsheet programs, HP analysis tools such as HP
Performance Manager, or third-party analysis products. HP Performance
Manager is optionally provided on separate media.
Logging Data with HP Performance Agent
The comprehensive data logged by HP Performance Agent enables you to
do the following:
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Characterize the workloads in the environment.
Analyze resource usage for load balancing.
Perform service-level management based on transaction response
time.
Perform capacity planning.
Respond to alarm conditions.
Solve system management problems before they arise.
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