The Performance Collection Software (PCS/iX) product (also
known as SCOPE/iX) HP B1794B for MPE/iX has been enhanced to support
larger numbers of disks, CPU's, and other system resources with
the version B.13.52 shipped in MPE/iX 7.0. This PCS version produces
modified format Raw Logfiles (version D of LOGGLOB.SCOPE.SYS, etc.)
and also modifies the format of Extracted RX Logfiles that are analyzed
by the PerfView products. HP Perfview and Measureware products
are now known as HP Vantage Point Performance Manager and Agent,
respectively.
This new version of PCS/iX supports the increased HP e3000
MPE/iX limits of 511 disks, 15 processors, and 16Gbyte memory sizes.
Also, the data fields have been tweaked to correctly process the
much larger possible sizes of disk storage, number of pins, and
other system resources that have grown along with the more powerful
HP e3000s. The expanded and modified data items required the update
of the MeasureWare Agent portion of the HP PerfView software
[HP Vantage Point Performance AGENT]. Older versions of HP MeasureWare
and the obsolete HP LaserRX software will not process the new Extracted
RX logfiles.
New releases of HP MeasureWare Agent that understand the new MPE/iX
7.0 Extracted RX logfiles are available. Those releases should
be acquired by customers through the usual HP Support Channels.
Generally, a Patch for your platform may be requested from HP in
the normal manner (download from the IT Resource Center, or request
from the Response Center).
Immediately after updating or installing PCS/iX B.13.52.03,
it will be necessary to use the UTILITY.SCOPE.SYS program to CONVERT
the previous Raw Logfile formats (B or C) to the new D version,
if not previously converted. This one-time conversion should require less
than five minutes for even the largest Raw Logfiles. This conversion
step must be performed prior to attempting to restart the SCOPEJOB
that collects the PCS data.
The Extracted RX logfiles will be automatically created and
modified when they are referenced by the EXTRACT.SCOPE.SYS program.
If any problems are experienced with appending to previous RX logfiles,
the RX output file may be purged and re-extracted in its entirety.
Note that when extracting a period file (month, week, year), the
previous period file is examined and updated if needed, before the
current period file is addressed
Future Support For Greater Than 8190 Concurrent Processes
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