Remotely assisted instructional learning (RAIL)
Onsite dedicated training (OST)
Price
USD $2,100
CAD $2,160
Course overview
Process Resource Manager (PRM) and Workload Manager (WLM) are two key components of HP's adaptive infrastructure initiative, which make it possible to dynamically allocate CPU, memory, and disk resources to meet application service level objectives. This hands-on course covers all aspects of installing, configuring, monitoring, and managing PRM and WLM. The course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on.
Prerequisites
HP-UX System and Network Administration I & II (H3064S & H3065S) or equivalent experience.
Audience
HPUX system administrators, systems engineers, and technical support representatives.
Ways to save
Save with the HP Care Pack education service offerings.
Gain the skills you need to effectively allocate and manage resources on an HP-UX system using PRM and WLM.
Next Steps
HP-UX Performance & Tuning (H4262S), Inside HP-UX (H5081S), and HP Partition Management: nPars, vPars, & Integrity Virtual Machines (U5075S) are all recommended follow-ons to this course.
Course outline
HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) introduction:
What PRM is
What is needed to run PRM
How to install PRM
Who can use PRM
What resources PRM can control
How to obtain PRM
Recommended patches
Getting more information...
PRM concepts:
Resource managers and their records
PRM configuration files
PRM groups
Understanding how PRM controls resources
Comparing PRM and HP-UX scheduling
Guaranteeing and limiting resource use
Understanding interaction between resources
Using PRM:
Plan, create and customize your PRM configuration
Load your configuration and enable resource managers
Set memory and application resource manager polling intervals 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
xprm:
xprm concepts
How to create and edit configuration files
How to load configuration files
How to enable/disable resource managers
How to set memory and application manager polling intervals
How to reset PRM
HP-UX and SNMP support:
psrset(1) utility
PRM and GlancePlus, Servicecontrol Manager and Serviceguard PRM
Information available via SNMP PRM SNMP agent process Configuring agent to
Sart automatically OpenView SNMP clients
Troubleshooting PRM:
Learn common ways to troubleshoot PRM
How to report a problem
Where to go for more information
WLM overview:
What is workload management
What is WLM
WLM features
Ideal environment for WLM
How WLM works
Requirements for using WLM
Compatible software
Obtaining WLM
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
Manually Editing your WLM configuration:
Manually editing your initial WLM configuration with PSET workload groups
Manually editing your initial WLM configuration with condition/exception
statements Manually editing your initial WLM configuration with tunables
Enabling WLM at reboot
Monitoring SLO compliance with EMS:
How WLM reports data to EMS
What information WLM makes available to EMS
How to create EMS monitoring requests using SAM
Supplying data to WLM:
Mechanisms available for reporting metrics to WLM
WLM scripting interface
WLM toolkits for Glance
ARM Toolkit
WLM API
WLM configuration file syntax:
prm structure syntax
slo structure syntax
Tune structure syntax
How to specify memory entitlements
How to specify disk bandwidth entitlements
WLM auditing & billing:
How to collect and view audit data
Enabling auditing at reboot
WLMTK & integration with other products:
WLMTK (WLM toolkits)
WLM integration with Oracle databases (ODBTK)
WLM integration with iCOD (Instant Capacity on Demand) / Pay Per Use (PPUTK)
WLM integration with Apache web server (ApacheTK) WLM integration with BEA
WebLogic Server(tm) (WebLogicTK) WLM integration with SAS(r) Software
(SASTK) WLM integration with SNMP (SNMPTK) WLM integration with OpenView
Performance Agent/Manager for UNIX WLM integration with Serviceguard WLM integration with Servicecontrol Manager
WLM and vPars:
How WLM fits into the HP-UX partitioning continuum
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