Performance Manager
Version 4.0D

User's Guide

Welcome to Performance Manager

Performance Manager is an SNMP-based, user-extensible, real-time performance monitoring and management tool that allows you to detect and correct performance problems from a central location. Performance Manager has a graphical user interface, or GUI, called pmgr that runs locally and can display data from the managed nodes in your Digital UNIX network. Performance Manager operates through interaction between nodes assigned as management stations and managed nodes.

Note: It is possible for a managed node to also be the management station. For more information on management stations and managed nodes, read the Overview.

For updates and the latest information about Performance Manager, see the
PM Web Site

This guide has the following major sections. You can read them in order or skip around. Pages are linked to each other where appropriate.

Overview

What is Performance Manager? What does it do?

Getting Started

Setting up the environment, learning the terminology, and using the interface.

Managing Nodes

Using Performance Manager to manage and monitor the nodes in your network.

Displaying Clusters

Performance Manager displays clusters using auto-discovery.

Monitoring

Creating, saving, and recalling sessions for monitoring data in real time, and customizing displays.

Metrics

You can arrange your metrics in categories, and choose which metrics to display or hide.

Thresholds

Thresholds are limits you can set on metrics. Crossing these thresholds triggers an alert, notifying you of computer or network problems.

Commands

Running commands with Performance Manager (its own or yours) on remote nodes and displaying the results.

Archives

Performance Manager scripts allow storing files of performance data.

Troubleshooting

Creating log files, restarting daemons, solving problems, and reporting problems to Digital.

Ordering Additional Information

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