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HP-UX Performance Management: WLM & PRM

U5447S      Course duration (days): 3
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Hampshire
Hook (RG27) 03/11/08 £ 1,100
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About this class

This course covers the installation, configuration, monitoring, and management of Workload Manager (WLM) and Process Resource Manager (PRM), key components of an adaptive infrastructure. Class participants will reinforce the lecture theory with a series of hands-on exercises. The 3-day course is 50% lecture and 50% hands-on labs using HP servers.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Experienced HP-UX system administrators, systems engineers, and technical support representatives.

What delegates will learn

  • Dynamically assign system resources to meet application demand
  • Optimize your system resource utilization
  • Prioritize the assignment of system resources to help meet SLAs and users' expectations
  • Ensure your critical applications receive the resources required
  • Ensure maximum utilization of your current hardware to achieve a greater ROI

Contents of this class

HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) introduction:

  • What PRM is
  • What is needed to run PRM
  • Overview of PRM commands
  • How to obtain and install PRM

PRM concepts:

  • Resource managers and their records
  • PRM configuration files
  • PRM groups
  • PRM and HP-UX scheduling

Using PRM:

  • Plan, create and customise your PRM configuration
  • Load your configuration and enable resource managers
  • Set memory and application resource manager polling intervals Automate PRM
  • Automate PRM management with scripts
  • Configure and protect PRM across system (re)boots
  • Use wildcards/alternate names in configurations
  • Using application and user records together
  • Using netgroups in user records
  • Monitor PRM
  • Release a PRM configuration lock
  • Reconstruct a PRM configuration

PRM GUI interfaces:

  • Using PRM with HP SMH
  • Using PRM with HP SIM

Products integrated with PRM

  • PRM and GlancePlus
  • PRM and ServiceGuard
  • Using PRM with HP integrity Virtual Machines
  • Integrating with Openview Performance Manager
  • PRM SNMP agent process
  • OpenView SNMP clients

WLM Overview

  • What is workload management?
  • What is WLM?
  • How WLM works
  • WLM features
  • Requirements for WLM
  • Compatible software
  • Obtaining WLM

Using WLM in a Single OS Instance

  • WLM configuration file basics
  • wlmd command
  • Setting up auditing

Getting started with WLM:

  • Learn set up initial configuration using the Configuration Wizard Using wlmd to enable WLM Running WLM in passive mode Using wlminfo command to monitor WLM

Using WLM on a Partitionable System

  • Host-based partition management
  • Resource partition management
  • Using WLM with HP Integrity Virtual Machines

Nested Partitioning and TiCAP

  • Nested partition management
  • Temporary capacity

Advanced Topic - WLM Configuration File Syntax

  • WLM integration with other products

Advanced Topic - WLM

  • Using the configuration wizard
  • Creating, editing, and monitoring WLM configurations through WLM GUI

Troubleshooting WLM

  • Useful utilities
  • WLM's log files
  • Common encountered problems
  • How to report problems
  • Where to find other information

Troubleshooting PRM

  • Learn common ways to troubleshoot PRM
  • How to report a problem
  • Where to go for more information