Document revision date: 30 March 2001

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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