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HP Performance Collection Software User's Manual (for MPE Systems)

About Performance Collection Software Host Programs 

Based on the information the PARM file provides to SCOPE(XL), the
collector program collects and summarizes system performance metrics, and
writes these metrics to raw log files.  Because SCOPE(XL) runs
continuously, the UTILITY program provides a special set of commands to
let you communicate with SCOPE(XL) while it is collecting data.

You can start and stop SCOPE(XL), add notes to the information being
logged, and get a status report on the SCOPE(XL) program.  You can also
tell SCOPE(XL) to reread the PARM file to allow you to make PARM file
changes without stopping the program.  UTILITY commands let you open,
create, resize, convert, and generate reports on raw and extracted log
files.  (Extracted log files contain subsets of the information included
in raw log files.  Use the EXTRACT program to generate extracted log
files.)

EXTRACT lets you extract selected Performance Collection Software data
from raw or extracted log files.  You can extract data based on a variety
of commands and parameters.  These commands and parameters are described
in chapter 5.

You should not run the SCOPE(XL)2 program directly.  The SCOPE(XL)
program will run it automatically, as necessary.  The only exception to
this rule is the need to run SCOPE(XL)2 with ;INFO="HELP" while
generating the Disc Space Grouping report.  For more details, see the
section on Data Collection in this manual.

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