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HP GlancePlus software arms your organization with powerfulsystem performance monitoring and diagnostic capabilities.It enables you to easily examine system activities, identify andresolve performance bottlenecks, and tune your system formore ecient operation.

Keep your applications running smoothly

HP GlancePlus

HP GlancePlus software provides powerful server performance monitoring and diagnostic

capabilities on all major UNIX® systems, including Linux! It enables you to easily examine

system activities, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks. With the unique drill-down

capabilities of HP GlancePlus, you can examine your system and application behavior to an

incredible level of detail.

Data sheet

HP GlancePlus software

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HP Performance Agent

HP Performance Agent software collects and maintains a comprehensive history of your

system’s performance and sends alarms of impending performance problems. Using

HP Performance Agent, you can pinpoint trends in system activities. This allows you to balance

workloads and accurately plan for future system growth.

HP Performance Agent gives you the data you need to eectively analyze, understand, and

make informed decisions about your computing environment. (For more detailed performance

information, see the HP Performance Agent and Performance Manager software data sheet.)

HP GlancePlus Pak

HP GlancePlus Pak combines the real-time diagnostic and monitoring capabilities of

HP GlancePlus with the historical data collection and analysis of HP Performance Agent

software. This bundle of complementary products provides an ideal solution to manage the

availability and performance of a single system, while retaining valuable historical information

for use with enterprise management products, such as HP Performance Manager software and

HP Operations Manager software.

With the HP GlancePlus Pak, you can handle a wide range of system performance and

availability problems, resulting in more ecient use of your resources.

Figure 1. HP GlancePlus on Integrity virtual machin e host: Reporting on all guests

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HP GlancePlus benets

HP GlancePlus provides broad business benets by helping to:

Keep business applications running smoothly and eciently

HP GlancePlus software allows you to identify and solve performance problems quickly. If you

suspect a problem, you can examine how dierent software applications and users are using

system resources. You can view detailed information on individual processes, including CPU and

memory use and t ime spent waiting for dierent system resources.

You can group users and processes into applications, and use these groupings to eciently

determine their impact on system resources. You can also view performance information about

individual logical systems in a virtualized environment. With this information, you can quickly

get a picture of how your system’s major resources are being used and who is using them.

On-screen alarms notify you of developing problems when customizable system performance

thresholds are exceeded. This allows you to address problems before they impact users and

business processes. In addition, the rules-based adviser in HP GlancePlus uses its customizable

system performance rules to help you quickly identify system performance problems and

bottlenecks.

Save time and eort managing your system resources

HP GlancePlus software provides information that enables you to identify and resolve problemsquickly, and to choose alternative system and kernel congurations or processing priorities.

HP GlancePlus has a motif-based interface that is easy to learn and use. In addition, the help

facility gives you a quick star t in using the product and interpreting performance data without

having to search through volumes of manuals.

HP GlancePlus software oers extensive congurability allowing you to tailor your solution

to best suit your needs and work style. You can set lters based on thresholds on any of the

displayed performance metrics (such as CPU utilization and disk input/output rate). This allows

you to see only the most active processes.

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You can dene color highlighting on process data that exceeds user-dened thresholds. This

helps you quickly identify processes or users that are having the greatest impact on your

system’s performance. You can run HP GlancePlus as an icon and have alarms and dynamic

system performance graphs displayed within the icon, allowing you to eciently keep an eye on

your system’s performance while attending to other tasks.

Better understand your computing environment

Using HP GlancePlus, you are more aware of how your systems and software programs interact

By using its ability to group related programs and users into applications, you can eciently

assess and track system resource usage by related processes or users. The CPU, disk, and

memory detail screens give you a detailed view of system activity. You can view disk I/O rates

and queue lengths by disk device, le system, or by logical volume, to determine whether your

disks are in balance.

You can also see how much disk activity is due to vir tual memory I/O and swapping. By using the

displays of short-term history and averages, you get a view of your system’s performance that

extends beyond the last interval. HP GlancePlus software allows you to monitor your virtualized

environment by providing performance details of individual logical systems.

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HP GlancePlus also helps you monitor your LAN, enabling you to identify networking problems

that are aecting the performance of your systems and applications. HP GlancePlus graphs give

you the information you need to quickly assess how your system is performing. Whether you

manage multiuser systems or a network of workstations, HP GlancePlus enables you to more

eciently understand and manage your computing environments.

HP GlancePlus features

Identify system performance bottlenecks—Use the HP GlancePlus rules-based adviser

to interpret performance data and identify bottlenecks. The default rules handle a variety of

system conditions.

Congure/customize graphical displays—Select from extensive choices for display options,

colors, and fonts. Dene the data sample intervals and durations for the graphs.

Monitor with threshold-based alarms—Proactively manage your computer system by using

alarms. Use the default alarm thresholds or dene your own to meet the particular needs of

your environment.

Get quick answers to your que stions using the online help facility—Use the guided tour to

learn about how HP GlancePlus software is used. Use the on-item help to get answers quickly to

your questions on specic items on the HP GlancePlus screen report.

Track CPU, memory, disk, and network resources— Graphical and tabular on-screen color

reports show your system’s performance and resource utilization in real t ime. HP GlancePlus

software can also display a short-term history of these measurements.

Track logical systems and resource utilization in a virtualized environment—View the

list of logical systems and drill down by selecting a particular logical system to view the details

about resources allocated and utilized on that system.

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View the level of metrics that gives you the detail you need—Metrics are displayed at the

global, application, or process level.

Create customized tabular data displays—Dene the order of the data columns and sort

criteria. Dene lters to see only the processes that are of interest to you and color-highlight

those that meet conditions that you dene. Select the metrics you want to display.

Monitor system performance while tending to other tasks—Run HP GlancePlus as an icon

and use the dynamic graphs displayed in the icon to keep an eye on the performance of your

systems.

Gain a complete solution

Comprehensive training

HP provides a comprehensive curriculum of HP Software and IT Service Management courses.

These oerings provide the training you need to realize the full potential of your HP solutions,

increase your network optimization and responsiveness, and achieve better return on your IT

investments.

With more than 30 years experience meeting complex education challenges worldwide, HP

knows training. This experience, coupled with unique insights into HP Software products,

positions HP to deliver the optimum training experience. For more information about these andother educational courses, visit: hp.com/learn

Customize your IT lifecycle management, from

acquisition of new IT, management of existing

assets, and removal of unneeded equipment.

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