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

Combined Recommendations 

On each system, extract MONTHLY DETAIL and YEARLY SUMMARY data by using
the EXTRACT program's MONTHLY and YEARLY commands.  If you must access a
system's data that is not directly accessible by your PC, perform an
additional WEEKLY or DAILY extraction and move that data to a central
analysis site where the PC can access it.  If the PC can access a system
directly, do not extract the daily and weekly data--accessing the raw log
files directly as remote files usually works better.

Here is a combined job stream that performs all extractions.  Execute it
immediately before the daily or weekly backup depending on how much log
file data you are willing to lose versus the amount of processing time
the extraction will take.  This is determined empirically for each
system.

     :JOB EXTRACT,SCOPE.SYS,SCOPE
     :RUN EXTRACT
     ************************************************************
     * First, top off the yearly summary data.
     *
     GLOBAL SUMMARY
     APPLICATION SUMMARY
     PROCESS OFF
     DISC ON
     YEARLY
     ************************************************************

     * Next, top off the monthly detail data.
     *
     GLOBAL BOTH
     APPLICATION BOTH
     PROCESS ON      (or PROCESS OFF to save disc space)
     DISC ON
     MONTHLY
     ***********************************************************

     * Finally, create the weekly extraction data.
     * [FOR REMOTE SYSTEMS ONLY]
     *
     PROCESS ON     (Just in case we turned it off above.)
     WEEKLY
     ************************************************************
     EXIT
     :COMMENT ***************************************************
     :COMMENT FOR REMOTE SYSTEMS, MOVE THE WEEKLY DETAIL DATA
     :COMMENT TO THE CENTRAL SYSTEM.
     :COMMENT
     :REMOTE HELLO THISSYS,REMOTE.LOGFILES,THISSYS;DSLINE=CENTRAL
     :DSCOPY RXWE#### TO ,CENTRAL;REP;MOVE
     :REMOTE BYE
     :COMMENT ***************************************************
     :TELLOP HP LaserRX EXTRACT JOB IS NOW FINISHED
     :EOJ

Check the files once a month.  Store and then purge any files named
RXMOyymm when the next month's log file shows up.  You could also store
and purge any RXYRyyyy files once a year although it will not be
necessary since they use such a small amount of disc space compared to
the volume of data they contain.

There are also other archival strategies you can use.  The EXTRACT
program is flexible enough to meet your needs.

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