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Incorrect CPU Util on AIX 5.3 SMT enabled

forums@developer.bmc.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:00:00 GMT

I have an AIX 5.3 machine that is SMT enabled. According to Performance Assurance, the CPU Utilization is 100% but, the system admins say that it is only around 30-40%.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about resolving the incorrect reporting in Analyze?

Difference between IO Rate and throughput and IOPS

forums@developer.bmc.com — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:10:17 GMT

Perceiver and Surveyor have a metric called IO Rate, given in 4K pages per second. My storage admins talk in terms of I/O's per second (rate) and KB per second (throughput). Which of these is the IO Rate in Perceiver closer to? Is it possible to get both values in Perceiver?

professional services template

forums@developer.bmc.com — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:47:33 GMT

Hi,

I wonder if anyone has any document or spreadsheet to help us estimate the effort (number of people and hours/days), based on the number of machines by type, type of reports, number of prediction templates, etc.

I have seen a similar doc in the past on Topology, but haven't found any on Performance Assurance.

Thanks a lot!

Sidney

Visualizer DB Growing at a high rate

forums@developer.bmc.com — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:40:51 GMT

We have noticed that our Visualizer DB

has been growing at a higher than expected rate. We believe this started when we started monitoring

the ESX hosts via a proxy server. Only issue with this is that the vis files for these manager runs

are only 4 MB at the highest. Has anyone else seen a jump in DB growth after implementing ESX monitoring

How do I Automate Forecasts in Predict?

forums@developer.bmc.com — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:56:27 GMT

I know that the facility exists to build a predict script and schedule a recurring forecast based on the script. However, I cannot seem to find any documentation on this process. Have any of you done this with any success? If so, would you be willing to share your methodology for doing so?

Regards,

Chris R.

Is there an unsupported "hack" to make BMC PA agent collect on CentOS?

forums@developer.bmc.com — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:34:30 GMT

BMC Performance Assurance 7.4.10 on CentOS

Thanks!

David

Performance Assurance

forums@developer.bmc.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:10:45 GMT

Hi,

Any tips on creating prefect workload categorization using preceiver in performance assurance.

How to make Perceive 7.2.3 the default web application on port 8080?

forums@developer.bmc.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:53:34 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to implement a generic URL through BigIP to our instance of Perceiver 7.2.3 on Solaris.

By default, the Perceiver URL is http://server:8080/qtv however, BigIP cannot support this redirect.

Therefore, I believe need to tell Apache/Tomcat to listen on port 8080 as the default web application, so that when BigIP redirects from the generic URL (for example http://my-perceiver) to http://server:8080, the user will reach Perceiver, or at the very least - a traditional "index.html" page which I can then redirect to http://server:8080/qtv

Has anyone been successful implementing this or a similar configuration change?

Thanks!

Perceive missing oracle data source outside firewall

forums@developer.bmc.com — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:46:26 GMT

In Perceive, Oracle is my data source and I am able to successfully view my computer groups. Recently I was asked to monitor new servers outside a firewall. If I open up Visualizer, the data is there but I cannot find/create these new servers when I try to create my new computer groups. I have tried to stop and start Perceive, deactivated and reactivated the data sources, and create a new data source. But I still cannot find the servers.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

OS400 / AS400 / iSeries

forums@developer.bmc.com — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:17:08 GMT

Hi,

Is this server supported ?

Where can I find documentation on BMC Web Site (I'm lost with name changes....what I'm looking for is something formely called Best/1)

Thanks,

Bruno.

Grouping Servers in Perceive URL

forums@developer.bmc.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:56:44 GMT

Hi,

We have a perl script to send notifications to system administrator groups when CPU utilization of the servers are over threshold. We would like to include the perceive url in this notification. The url should allow users to view cpu utilization charts for a set of servers which are not part of a pre defined perceive group. The number of server may vary from week to week. The grouping will be done using the perl.

Help need to include multiple servers in a single chart dynamically using the perceive url.

Thank You

Seshu