Archives are files of data stored for later use. The type of data Performance Manager monitors can be saved in an archive file, then later graphed. Thus, archives allow you to capture all data on one or more nodes without having to monitor them. Should performance problems develop later, you can retrieve the archive and examine the data to see when the problem began.

Performance Manager includes a tabular_archiver script that stores the metric data you choose in an archive file. The information needed to archive metrics includes:

• Archive duration (in minutes)
• Sample interval (in minutes)
• Type of metrics for archiving ( pmgrd, snmpd, advfsd, clustmond)
• Storage file name (the file that will contain the archived metrics)
• Storage directory (location for the archived_host.out archive file)
• Field delimiter used in the archive file

Later, you can graph an archive file to look at the metric data recorded. Performance Manager provides a Microsoft® Excel macro to graph the archived metric data. The archive file format is documented so other interfaces can be used to graph the metric data.

See Also

Archive Recording

Not fully implemented yet

Archive Playing

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