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Software version: 11.01
Publication date: June, 2011
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This is a patch release of the HP Operations agent.
New Features
The HP Operations agent 11.01 contains these new
features:
Support for monitoring vMA 4.1
This version of the HP Operations agent enables you to monitor vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 4.1.
Enhanced monitoring of Windows event logs
With this version of the HP Operations agent, you can monitor the data in the Details tab of Windows event logs (for Windows 2008). Also, the HP Operations agent can now monitor subscribed events and events with the level LOG_ALWAYS or VERBOSE.
New Configuration Variables
OPC_LE_SKIP_NO_OF_INVALID_EVENTS (namespace eaagt): When you set this variable to a positive integer, you can receive notifications in the HPOM console if invalid events are encountered by the logfile encapsulator (opcle). When the number of invalid events encountered by opcle reaches the value of this variable, the HP Operations agent sends an alert to the HPOM console. By default, this feature is disabled and the variable is set to -1.
New Metrics
The HP Operations agent 11.01 introduces the following metrics on Solaris nodes:
GBL_MEM_ARC_UTIL:This metric indicates the percentage of physical memory used by ZFS ARC.
GBL_MEM_ARC:For HP GlancePlus and RTMA only. This metric indicates the amount of Adaptive Replacement Cache(ARC) used by ZFS
The version 11.01 release is a patch release of the HP Operations agent. Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing the HP Operations agent 11.01, are documented in the patch text file, which is available in the text format with the downloadable patch. You can also follow the instructions in the HP Operations Agent 11.01 Installation Guide.
After installing the HP Operations agent 11.01, you must apply the hotfixes for the HP Operations agent 11.00 that were not included in this patch. See the patch text file for the list of hotfixes that are included in this patch.
The HP Operations agent 11.01 installer stops running instances of glance and dsilog.
Support Matrix
You can find the Support Matrix for this product that lists all software and hardware requirements at this location: HP Support matrices.
Note: Most of the support areas require that you register as an HP Passport user and sign in. Many also require an active support contract. To find more information about support access levels, go to: Access levels.
See the patch text file for more information on known problems and workarounds.
Limitations
If you want to use one of the following components of the HP Operations agent, you must run the agent with a user with the root/administrative privileges.
Performance Collection Component
Real-Time Measurement Component
Real-Time Metric Access Component
If you install the agent 11.01 by mounting the ISO file, the following messages appear in the oapatch.log file after installation:
Installation of the component package HPOvXpl returned exception.
Installer received non-zero code
The requested operation is successful.
Changes will not be effective until the system is rebooted.
Installation of the component package HPOvSecCo returned exception.
Installation of the component package HPOvBbc returned exception.
If you run the following commands (from the bin directory) on the node before installing from the mounted ISO file, these messages do not appear:
a) opcagt –kill
b) midaemon –T
c) ttd –k
On an HP-UX system, if you open the character-mode interface of glance during the installation of the agent 11.01, the following error message appears in the glance console:
You can use only the Operations Monitoring Component with a non-root/non-privileged user. If you use measurement threshold policies that use the performance metrics from the agent's data store, you must run the Operations Monitoring Component too with a root/administrative user.
If the SNMP_SESSION_MODE variable is set to the value NO_TRAPD, the event interceptor component of the HP Operations agent 11.01 connects to Microsoft's SNMP service on a Windows node.
On Solaris non-global zones and AIX WPARs, the following metric classes are not supported by the Performance Collection Component, GlancePlus, and RTMA:
CPU class (BYCPU)
Disk class (BYDSK)
Swap class (BYSWP)
Logical volume (LVM)
Logical system (BYLS)
Note: In addition, the Performance Collection Component does not support metrics of the NFS metric class in AIX WPARs.
The following metrics are not supported by the Performance Collection Component in AIX WPARs:
GBL_NUM_DISK
GBL_DISK_TIME_PEAK
GBL_DISK_UTIL_PEAK
GBL_DISK_REQUEST_QUEUE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ_PCT
GBL_TOTAL_DISPATCH_TIME
GBL_DISK_PHYS_IO_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_IO
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ
GBL_DISK_PHYS_WRITE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_WRITE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_BYTE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ_BYTE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_WRITE_BYTE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_BYTE
GBL_DISK_VM_READ
GBL_DISK_VM_READ_RATE
GBL_DISK_VM_WRITE
GBL_DISK_VM_WRITE_RATE
GBL_DISK_VM_IO_RATE
GBL_DISK_VM_IO
GBL_MEM_SYS_AND_CACHE_UTIL
GBL_MEM_CACHE_HIT_PCT
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_AVAIL
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_USED
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_UTIL
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_AVAIL_KB
GBL_OTHER_QUEUE
GBL_NFS_CALL
GBL_NFS_CALL_RATE
GBL_MEM_ACTIVE_VIRT
GBL_LS_PHYS_MEM_TOTAL
GBL_LS_PHYS_MEM_CONSUMED
GBL_POOL_CPU_AVAIL
GBL_POOL_TOTAL_UTIL
GBL_LS_NUM_DEDICATED
GBL_LS_NUM_SHARED
GBL_LS_NUM_UNCAPPED
GBL_LS_NUM_CAPPED
GBL_LS_CPU_NUM_SHARED
GBL_LS_CPU_NUM_DEDICATED
GBL_POOL_NUM_CPU
GBL_POOL_ID
GBL_VCSWITCH_RATE
GBL_CPU_MT_ENABLED
GBL_HYP_UTIL
GBL_CPU_NUM_THREADS
In an AIX global environment, the following BYLS metrics for WPARs will always be zero:
BYLS_CPU_PHYS_WAIT_MODE_UTIL
BYLS_CPU_PHYS_IDLE_MODE_UTIL
The following metrics are not supported by the Performance Collection Component on 64-bit AIX systems:
GBL_HYP_UTIL
GBL_NET_DEFERRED
GBL_NET_DEFERRED_CUM
GBL_NET_DEFERRED_PCT
GBL_NET_DEFERRED_PCT_CUM
GBL_NET_DEFERRED_RATE
GBL_NET_DEFERRED_RATE_CUM
The following metrics are not supported by the Performance Collection Component in Solaris non-global zones:
GBL_DISK_TIME_PEAK
GBL_DISK_REQUEST_QUEUE
GBL_CPU_WAIT_UTIL
GBL_DISK_PHYS_IO_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_WRITE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_BYTE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_WRITE_BYTE_RATE
GBL_DISK_VM_IO_RATE
GBL_MEM_SYS_AND_CACHE_UTIL
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_AVAIL
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_RESERVED
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_AVAIL_KB
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_MEM_AVAIL
GBL_CPU_CYCLE_ENTL_MIN
GBL_DISK_UTIL_PEAK
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ_PCT
GBL_CPU_WAIT_TIME
GBL_DISK_PHYS_IO
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ
GBL_DISK_PHYS_WRITE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_READ_BYTE_RATE
GBL_DISK_PHYS_BYTE
GBL_DISK_VM_IO
GBL_MEM_CACHE_HIT_PCT
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_USED
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_UTIL
GBL_CPU_MT_ENABLED
GBL_SWAP_SPACE_DEVICE_AVAIL
GBL_CPU_CYCLE_ENTL_MAX
TBL_PROC_TABLE_UTIL
TBL_FILE_LOCK_USED
GBL_ZONE_APP
For the following metrics, the Performance Collection Component shows global zone values in non-global zones:
GBL_MEM_DNLC_HIT_PCT
GBL_FS_SPACE_UTIL_PEAK
GBL_NET_PACKET_RATE
GBL_NET_IN_PACKET
GBL_NET_IN_PACKET_RATE
GBL_NET_OUT_PACKET
GBL_NET_OUT_PACKET_RATE
GBL_NET_COLLISION_RATE
GBL_NET_COLLISION_PCT
GBL_NET_DEFERRED_PCT
GBL_NET_ERROR_RATE
GBL_NET_IN_ERROR_PCT
GBL_NET_IN_ERROR_RATE
GBL_NET_OUT_ERROR_PCT
GBL_NET_OUT_ERROR_RATE
GBL_NET_COLLISION_1_MIN_RATE
GBL_NET_ERROR_1_MIN_RATE
GBL_RUN_QUEUE
GBL_LOADAVG
GBL_LOADAVG5
GBL_BLOCKED_IO_QUEUE
The Performance Collection Component always reports zero for the following metrics in non-global zones:
GBL_NUM_DISK
GBL_NUM_LS
GBL_NUM_ACTIVE_LS
GBL_NUM_DISK
On Linux, the following metrics are logged only for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 or higher:
APP_DISK_PHYS_IO_RATE
APP_DISK_PHYS_READ
APP_DISK_PHYS_READ_RATE
APP_DISK_PHYS_WRITE
APP_DISK_PHYS_WRITE_RATE
APP_IO_BYTE
APP_IO_BYTE_RATE
To view the man pages on UNIX/Linux platforms, you must manually set the MANPATH variable to the following locations:
On AIX: /usr/lpp/OV/man, /usr/lpp/perf/man
On HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux: /opt/OV/man, /opt/perf/man
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