Document revision date: 30 March 2001

## Availability Manager User's Guide

Begin | Index

Contents (summary)
Preface | Preface
Chapter 1 | Overview
Chapter 2 | Getting Started
Chapter 3 | Getting Information about Nodes
Chapter 4 | Getting Information about Events
Chapter 5 | Performing Fixes on OpenVMS Nodes
Chapter 6 | Customizing the Availability Manager
Appendix A | CPU Process States
Appendix B | Tables of Events
Appendix C | OpenVMS Events by Type of Data Collection
| Index
| Figures
| Tables

## Contents

Preface
Preface | Preface
Chapter 1
1 | Overview
1.1 | What Is the Availability Manager?
1.2 | How Does the Availability Manager Work?
1.3 | How Does the Availability Manager Identify Performance Problems?
1.3.1 | Collecting and Analyzing Data
1.3.1.1 | Types of Data Collection
1.3.1.2 | Events and Data Collection
1.3.1.3 | Data Collection Intervals
1.3.2 | Posting Events
1.3.2.1 | Thresholds and Occurrences
1.4 | How Does the Availability Manager Maintain Security?
1.4.1 | Data Analyzer Password Security
1.4.2 | OpenVMS Data Collector Security Features
Chapter 2
2 | Getting Started
2.1 | Starting the Data Collector
2.2 | Starting the Data Analyzer
2.2.1 | How to Start the Data Analyzer on an OpenVMS Alpha Node
2.2.2 | How to Start the Data Analyzer on a Windows NT Node
2.3 | Using the Application Window
2.3.1 | Other Window Components
2.3.2 | Displaying More Information
2.4 | Selecting a Group of Nodes
2.4.1 | Group Names That Are Displayed by Default
2.4.2 | How to Display Other Nodes
2.5 | Displaying Information about Nodes
2.5.1 | Choosing a Node
2.5.2 | Specifying Data to Collect on OpenVMS Nodes
2.5.3 | Sorting Data
2.6 | Getting Help
Chapter 3
3 | Getting Information about Nodes
3.1 | Node Panes
3.1.1 | OpenVMS Node Pane
3.1.2 | Windows NT Node Pane
3.2 | Node Data Pages
3.2.1 | Node Summary
3.2.2 | CPU Modes and Process Summaries
3.2.2.1 | Windows NT CPU Modes
3.2.2.2 | OpenVMS CPU Modes Summary
3.2.2.3 | OpenVMS CPU Modes Detail
3.2.2.4 | OpenVMS CPU Process Summary
3.2.3 | Memory Summaries
3.2.3.1 | Windows NT Memory Summary
3.2.3.2 | OpenVMS Memory Summary
3.2.4 | OpenVMS I/O Summaries and Page/Swap Files
3.2.4.1 | OpenVMS I/O Summaries
3.2.4.2 | OpenVMS I/O Page/Swap Files
3.2.5 | Disk Summaries
3.2.5.1 | OpenVMS Disk Status Summary
3.2.5.2 | OpenVMS Single Disk Summary
3.2.5.3 | OpenVMS Disk Volume Summary
3.2.5.4 | Windows NT Logical Disk Summary
3.2.5.5 | Windows NT Physical Disk Summary
3.2.6 | OpenVMS Lock Contention
3.2.7 | OpenVMS Cluster Summary
3.2.7.1 | Summary Pane
3.2.7.2 | Cluster Members Pane
3.2.7.3 | System Communications Architecture (SCA) Virtual Circuit (VC) Data
3.2.7.4 | SCS Connections Data
3.2.7.5 | LAN Virtual Circuit Details Data
3.2.8 | OpenVMS Network Interconnect for the System Communication Architecture (NISCA) Pages
3.2.8.1 | Channel Selection Data
3.2.8.2 | Virtual Circuit (VC) Closures Data
3.2.8.3 | Packets Discarded Data
3.2.8.4 | Transmit Data
3.2.8.5 | Receive Data
3.2.8.6 | Congestion Control Data
3.2.9 | OpenVMS Single Process
3.2.9.1 | Process Information
3.2.9.2 | Working Set
3.2.9.3 | Execution Rates
3.2.9.4 | Process I/O Quotas
3.2.9.5 | Wait States
3.2.9.6 | Job Quotas
Chapter 4
4 | Getting Information about Events
4.1 | Displaying Event Information
4.1.1 | Data in the Events Pane
4.1.2 | Events Pane Menu Options
4.2 | Criteria Signaling and Displaying an Event
4.3 | Displaying Additional Event Information
Chapter 5
5 | Performing Fixes on OpenVMS Nodes
5.1 | Understanding Fixes
5.2 | Performing Fixes
5.2.1 | Node Fixes
5.2.1.1 | Crash Node
5.2.1.2 | Adjust Quorum
5.2.2 | Performing Process Fixes
5.2.3 | General Process Fixes
5.2.3.1 | Delete Process
5.2.3.2 | Exit Image
5.2.3.3 | Suspend Process
5.2.3.4 | Resume Process
5.2.3.5 | Change Process Priority
5.2.4 | Process Memory Fixes
5.2.4.1 | Purge Working Set
5.2.4.2 | Adjust Working Set
5.2.5 | Process Limits Fixes
5.2.5.1 | Direct I/O Count Limit
5.2.5.2 | Buffered I/O Count Limit
5.2.5.3 | AST Queue Limit
5.2.5.4 | Open File Limit
5.2.5.5 | Lock Queue Limit
5.2.5.6 | Time Queue Entry Limit
5.2.5.7 | Subprocess Creation Limit
5.2.5.8 | I/O Byte

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