1. ASAP General Overview ASAP 2.8 Release ASAP TCP-IP Plug-in
NonStop Enterprise Division

2. What is ASAP? Strategic Manageability offering from HP NonStop
Provides monitoring and management infrastructure for NonStop Availability, Statistics and Performance (ASAP).
Provides service-level Goal & Action objectives engine.
Can monitor any type of object including
System objects - such as CPUs, Disks, Files, Processes...
Subsystem objects - such as RDF, Spooler, TMF, Tape, ...
Network objects – such as Comm, Lines, X.25, Expand lines, TCP/IP, Subnets, Routes, Ports, Services, Windows, more...
Applications – can monitor the availability and performance of virtually any type of abstract application domain
Flexible – offers wide variety of visual and programmatic interfaces.
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3. ASAP Product component overview
ASAP Product Suite Includes
ASAP Core – Product Monitors Availability, Stats, and Performance of NonStop system and application components.
ASAP Extension – Extends ASAP API to internal application domains
ASAP OpenView Smart Plug-in – Extends ASAP stats to OpenView
ASAP Hybrid Extension for LINUX – Extends ASAP to LINUX systems
ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in – Extreme in-depth TCP/IP Monitoring  New
Technical Portal -
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4. ASAP Capabilities Interfaces to wide range of environments
EMS Tokenized interface
Provider/Consumer API interfaces
Conversation, Fat, Thin, HTML, Excel, XML, ...
SMTP , wireless phone, pager, ...
Enterprise management object-state interfaces
Goals & Actions Language (GOAL’s)
Goals - Service-level objectives, alerts, rules
Actions - Automated Actions
Automatic service-level management
ASAP Database
Both Real-time and Long-term history
Includes service-level objectives data base
High performance, super-scaling design
Automated archival of reliable data-store
Normalized Published Database
Entity Definition Language (EDL)
Uniform EDL meta-data language provides
Abstract definition of System/Subsystems
Applications and Third-party domains
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5. ASAP Interfaces Interfaces EMS Events Provider APIs Consumer APIs
Fat/Thin Graphical interfaces
Conversational interface
interface
Wireless interface
Pager interface
Web Viewpoint interface
Application plug-in entities
3rd Party plug-in entities
Published Database
Batch Query interface
Enterprise Management Frameworks such as...
OpenView SPI interface
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6. ASAP Graphical Dashboards
Highly customizable
Can mix graph types
Can mix entities
Save As ...
Saves dashboards
Allows many different dashboards
Can Save/Restore at click of the mouse.
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7. ASAP – Goals and Actions engine
Process Busy < 80
Action
TACL Suspend <#object>
Notes - If Goal not met, Red critical Alert can be displayed... Eg $Step busy is more than 80% busy - Action option allows automated actions to occur... such as Suspend
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8. ASAP – In Depth Monitoring/Extensibility
ASAP fault tolerance architecture
Fully fault-tolerant Availability, Stats, and Performance (ASAP) monitoring infrastructure
Engineered for HP NonStop servers
Alerts/Reports via extremely wide range of interfaces
Reports/Alerts can be sent via SMTP , wireless phone, pager, HTML ...
Automated corrective actions based on users defined service-level goals
Normalized state model combines:
Availability state info – Up, Down, Warning, Critical states
Performance state info – Low, Medium, High, Critical utilization
Service-level objective state monitoring with upper and lower bound thresholding.
Infrastructure allows monitoring of:
Over key data-points, user selectable, controls, goals, objects, and actions
System Objects – Cpu, Comm, Disk, Expand, Nodes, Systems, Tape, ...
Subsystem Objects – File, Busiest, Process, RDF, Spooler, TMF, ...
Abstract Application domains – both external and internal app domain monitoring
Leverages NonStop fault-tolerant architecture
All ASAP monitor/collect components are true NonStop Process pairs
Components automatically restart and reconfigure when processors go up/down or are de/installed
ASAP Database provides fault-tolerant repository of both short and long term history (up to 10 years)
Goals, Objectives, and Actions data-store can be fully audited
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9. ASAP 2.8 Release – latest release
New Features
Reporting
Measure on Demand
Persistent Sorting
Auto Sizing
Notification improvements
Removed object housekeeping
EDL
New Entities and Attributes
New EDL statement types
New Relation statement
New Map statement
Two dozen minor improvements
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10. ASAP 2.8 – Reporting – Measure on Demand
New with ASAP 2.8
New Show Related Measurement Popup
- Graphical Measurement of Objects
- Allows Point-and-Click Measurements
- Cpu, Disk, Process, File, …
Example:
- ASAP detects Disk $DEV is Busy 8
- High use Icon indicates 48.8 %busy
- Click Show Related Measurement 8
ASAP Displays ASAP Measure dialog…
Click Start for in-depth Analysis...
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11. ASAP 2.8 – Reporting – Measure on Demand
Measure Report Window
- Provides on-demand in-depth analysis of Measure statistics
Analysis includes
Selected Object details
Busiest Objects (Files)
Busiest Openers (Processes)
Display on right represents pages of measure output sorted and formatted for improved relevancy.
Correlate As... Provides Correlation analysis of ASAP and Measure data.
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12. ASAP 2.8 – Reporting - Sort View
Sort View enhanced
Sorts now Persistent
Each update re-sorted
Columns auto-size too
Sizing Menu options
Contents + Headings
Contents Only
Window Width
Default best fit
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13. ASAP 2.8 – Cpu Blades attributes
New Blade Attributes Added for NSAA Goals
Added - Blades Count is count of up blades
Added - Blades State is blade count state Goal Cpu, Blades=3
Added - Blades Up List of Up Blades A, AB, or A B C
Example DMR Goal Cpu, Blades=2 Cpu 0 only 1 blade up
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14. ASAP 2.8 EDL – New Expand Primary Cpu
New Expand “Primary Cpu” EDL Attribute
Now can specify Expand Cpu Goals
Example: GOAL is Cpu= 1 But the value = 0
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15. ASAP 2.8 – EDL Language
ASAP includes an Entity Definition meta data Language (EDL)
EDL can be used to define any abstract entity
EDL can describe any system and/or application entity
Changes to Entity Definition Language (EDL) in 2.8
ASAP 2.8 adds relationships to EDL language
New 2.8 Relation Definition Language extensions are called RDL
RELATION – new statement defines hierarchical relationships between EDL entities and containers.
MAP – new statement defines associations between hierarchical classes, containers, and EDL entities.
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16. ASAP 2.8 EDL – Relationships (RDL)
New EDL RELATION Statement
RELATION OBJECT <ObjectID> PARENT <Parent-ObjectID> | NULL CAPTION <Container-Name> | INSTANCE
\Chicago.Tcpip\Tcp\$Ztc06
NodeClass
TcpipClass
TcpClass
TcpProcess
\Chicago
.Tcpip
\Tcp
\$Ztc06
Relation Object NodeClass Parent NULL Caption *;
Relation Object TcpipClass Parent NodeClass Caption Tcpip;
Relation Object TcpClass Parent TcpipClass Caption Tcp;
Relation Object TcpProcess Parent TcpClass Instance;
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17. ASAP 2.8 - Summary ASAP 2.8 12 new entities, 600 new statistics
TCP/IP - 9 new Tcp/IP entity definitions
Telserv - 3 new Telserv entity definitions
CPU provides Blade count, state, and mask
EXPAND provides primary Cpu & state
PROCESS Command and Detail long names
New EDL RELATION and MAP statements
Relation Definition Language (RDL)
TCP/IP Telserv hierarchies defined in RDL
Notification on state improvement provided
Sort View supports persistent sorts
Sort View columns now auto-size
Report window 'Copy Special'
Report Show Related Measurement
Measure on Demand
Delete Removed Objects
Object auto-delete option 'After N Minutes'
File, Process, Tcp*, Telserv* AGE options
View Graph/Tile Graph use Taskbar size/loc
2D graphs support single attribute graphing
Drop-downs auto-size to max text width
SSG Fixed Interval supports seconds
X1 Toolbar button increases samples +10
Multiple Client instances with different exe
State Filter Toolbar one-click State filter
ABOUT box close-box now stops client
Limits on max attributes removed (was 100)
CSG now distributed with 2.8 client
OIL intermediate clicks now partial-match
OEM XML context provider
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18. New TCP/IP Plug-in - In-depth TCP monitoring
Monitors TCP-IP subsystem
12 new TCP/IP/TELSERV entities
Monitors processes, subnets, routes, ports, telnet, services, windows, more...
Both Conventional and IPv6 compatibility mode supported
600 new attributes monitored
Goals and Actions features extended to all TCP/IP and TELSERV entities
Alerts can be issued on any attribute
Goals can be set on any attribute
Actions can be taken on any attribute
Port monitoring can serve as basis for security alerts/actions on system access
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19. ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in – Overview
RDL defines new super hierarchies Telserv & TCP/IP
\Node \Telserv \Window \$ZTN04 \#PT92NE
GOALs & ACTIONs now also possible for Tcp/ip & Telserv
Example – Alert Goal Faddr= But Tcpip Address not in subnet
Note - ASAP TCP/IP monitoring allows new security access control previously not possible
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20. ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in – Telnet service monitoring
Example
GOAL Telnet Service should NOT be “TACL”
Note - ASAP TCP/IP monitoring allows new security access control previously not possible
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21. ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in - Traffic History
ASAP 2.8 now provides TCP-IP Traffic History
Example ASAP detects busy Window #Pt92n40
Graphical History of User-Bytes > sent Net-Bytes < received
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22. ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in - Process opens
ASAP 2.8 allows Tcpip goals on window opener properties.
Example GOAL TelservWindow, Processes < 3
ASAP detects 3 Processes opening #Pt92n3z and Alerts
Show Object Details popup menu item provides opener info, userid, object filename
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23. ASAP TCP/IP Plug-in - Summary
12 new in-depth TCPIP Entities...
TCP ICMP – Control Message Protocol
TCP IP – Internet Protocol Statistics
TCP PORT – <port#>\Tcpip\Opener\Oid
TCP PROCESS – $System.Sysnn.TCPIP
TCP QIO – TCP QIO histograms and statistics
TCP ROUTE – TCP Route statistics
TCP RTE – Route Error statistics
TCP SUBNET – subnet statistics
TCP UDP – User Datagram Protocol
TELSERV PROCESS – Telserv process statistics
TELSERV SERVICE – Telserv service statistics
TELSERV WINDOW – Telserv window statistics
Monitoring of 600 TCP / IP /Telserv attributes
Long term history of TCP/IP traffic sent / received
TCP/IP service-level objective GOALs
TCP/IP service-level ACTIONS
Foreign/Local subnet and port monitoring
Foreign/Local IP-Address subnet Goals
Foreign/Local IP-Address subnet Actions
Traffic monitoring, thresholds, actions
Setmode, Control, Cancels, Openers, Window type,
Service name, Local/Foreign port, IP-addr, active
Program filename, Cpu, Primary/Backup, Pin
Protocol, ZSPI, TCP, Opener Pid.
... more TCP entities and attributes coming in 2.9
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24. ASAPX API Product
ASAPX is an API that allows customers to use ASAP to do in-depth monitoring of their NonStop applications’ availability and performance.
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25. ASAPX API – Summary of Benefits
Survey of 250 IT managers * What Benefit does your company receive from improved
Application quality?
More Enterprise Uptime - 89%
Reduced Maintenance - 78%
Improved Customer Satisfaction - 75%
More efficient business processes – 60%
Reduced Cost of ownership – 56%
* Source –Information Week Research, Software Quality
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26. ASAPX – API Architecture
ASAP Massively-Parallel Shared-Segment API Architecture
In-depth application domain monitoring
Monitoring allows improved application quality
Engineered for NonStop server MP architecture
Ultra-fast, non-blocking, interface - Apps never wait
Efficient stats collection, aggregation, objective alerts
ASAP
ASAP
App1
App2
App3
...
Appn
AsapXmon
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27. ASAPX – API Interface - Example
Consumer
domain_name ‘:=‘ “Exxon\Station\Sales”;
ASAP_REGISTER_( domain_name : length
, domain_handle); . .
ENDTRANSACTION;
ASAP_UPDATE_( domain_handle, error_detail
, Data_item, Value, Math ); 8
ASAPX
Shared Memory
Provider
Data_item - Defined by EDL
Value Defined by application
Math = Add Value to Data_item Math = Assign Value to Data_item Math = Assign Text to Data_item
ASAP Database
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28. ASAPX – MPS2 Domain Aggregation
Station\Sales\A
Station\Sales\B
Station\Sales\C
Station\Sales\...
Station\Sales\..
ASAP Aggregation Analysis
Station\Sales\#
Statistical Aggregation
ASAPXSGP
Shared
Segments
ASAPXMON
CPU 0
CPU 1
CPU 2
CPU 3
CPU 4
CPU 5 L
Extensible B F I A C E G K D H J
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29. ASAP Hybrid LINUX NonStopTM Server
Extends ASAP application monitoring capabilities to Linux
Linux applications tell ASAP about objects and metrics
ASAP monitors objects, issues alerts as it would for all other objects
Data stored on NonStop server along with all other ASAP data
Same high-performance, shared-memory, protected architecture as ASAP on NonStop
NonStopTM
Server
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30. ASAP HP OpenView Smart Plug-in
Adds All ASAP Availability, Stats, & Performance statistics to OpenView Operations service management views
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31. ASAP Web Resources http://nonstopasap.com/
HP NonStop ASAP - Technical Portal
ASAP Core - Examples
ASAP OpenView SPI - Examples
ASAP Linux - Datasheet
Hybrid for Linux Datasheet.pdf
ASAP Frequently Asked Questions
ASAP Documents
ASAP Down Loads
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