1. ASAP Overview with 2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 Highlights
HP NonStop Enterprise Division

2. What is ASAP? Strategic manageability offering from HP NonStop
ASAP monitors and maintains NonStop Availability, Statistics and Performance (ASAP)
ASAP monitors both availability + performance of many object types
System objects - such as CPUs, Disks, Files, Memory, 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 – monitors availability and performance of virtually any type of abstract application domain
ASAP maintains high availability via a Goals and Actions service-level-objectives engine that performs automated actions
Flexible – offers unusually wide range of visual and programmatic interfaces.
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3. ASAP Overview - Product components
ASAP Core software product ids
G-series product id SE30V3 H-series product id HSE30V3 J-series product id QSE30V3 L-series product id BE259AC ASAP Core – runs on G-, H-, J-, and L-series NonStop operating systems. Monitors and maintains NonStop Availability, Statistics, and Performance. All key components are included in ASAP Core software:
+ Full-function Goals and Actions automation engine
+ 17x built-in interfaces - EMS, Fat, Thin, Website, Enterprise mgmt, etc
+ ASAP CLIM/TCP/IP – TCP monitoring included in ASAP Core  Core
+ ASAP SIM interface – Extends ASAP to HP SIM  Core
+ ASAP Operations Smart Plug-in – Extends ASAP to HP Operations  Core
+ ASAP 3.0 Free Upgrade – SE30V3U free upgrade from V1/V2 to V3  Core
ASAPX Extension – SE31V3 Extends ASAP API to abstract application domains
Technical Portal -
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4. ASAP Overview-Features
ASAP was 15th year of ASAP evolution
2000 monitored 6 entities & ~100 attributes
2015 monitors 36 entities & ~2000 attributes
Used by NonStop division’s largest customers
Used as foundation for other HP products
ASAP has wide range of Interfaces
EMS Tokenized interface
Provider/Consumer Programmatic API interfaces
Fat, Thin, Conversational, HTML, Excel, XML, ...
SMTP , wireless, phone, pager ...
Enterprise management interfaces, OV, SIM, ..
Goals & Actions Language (GOAL)
Goals - Service-level objectives, alerts, rules
Actions – Perform automated corrective Actions
Result - Automatic service-level management
ASAP Database
DB supports both Real-time & Long-term history
High performance, super-scaling design
3.0 DB structure performance enhancements
Automated archival of long-term history
Includes service-level objectives data base
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 Overview - Interfaces
EMS tokenized Events
Provider APIs
Consumer APIs
Fat/Thin Graphic interfaces
Conversational interface
HTML interface
Wireless phone interface
Pager interface
Web Viewpoint interface
App plug-in interfaces
3rd Party plug-in entities
Published Database
Batch Query interface
Enterprise Management Frameworks such as...
OpenView SPI interface
Systems Insight Manager ASAP-SIM interface
ASAP Local/Proxy Web site interface
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6. ASAP Overview - Goals and Actions
Process Busy < 80
Action
TACL Suspend <#object>
Notes - If Goal is not met Red critical alert icon is displayed next to value... For example when $STEP Busy is more than 80% busy - Action option allows automated actions to occur... such as Suspend busy process
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7. ASAP Overview – User Dashboards
User defined Dashboards
Customizable GUI
Can mix graph types
Can mix entities
Can save many different Dashboards
Save Dashboard As...
Allows wide range of different Dashboards
Can Save/Restore a Dashboard at the click of the mouse.
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8. ASAP – Report example – Measure on Demand
New with ASAP 2.8 and higher
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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9. ASAP – Report example – 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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10. ASAP – Report example – Sort Views
Sort Views enhanced
Sorts are now Persistent
Each update re-sorted
Columns auto-resize too
Sizing Menu options
Contents + Headings
Contents Only
Window Width
Default best fit
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11. ASAP – Report example - TCP/IP
ASAP supports super hierarchies in Telserv & TCP/IP
\Node \Telserv \Window \$ZTN04 \#PT92NE
GOALs & ACTIONs are also supported 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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12. ASAP – Report example – Telnet service monitoring
GOAL Telnet Service should NOT be “TACL”
Note - ASAP TCP/IP monitoring allows new security access control previously not possible
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13. ASAP – Report example - TCP/IP 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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14. ASAP – Report example - Telserv Monitoring
ASAP Monitors Telserv Processes
Also monitors Telserv Services and Windows
Example: ASAP can show...
Who is connected
Traffic sent/received
What they’re running
Service, Openers, ...
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15. ASAP – Report example - Telserv Process opens
ASAP 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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16. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2.. Release & higher ASAP server features Overview
Two dozen minor bug fixes in 3.2.3
Complex Boolean and Escalating goals
CLIM protocol stats in ASAP core
J-series Blade stats in ASAP core
TCP/Telserv stats in ASAP Core
3 new CIP entities in ASAP Core
New SWAP KMSF entity in Core
New CPU memory stats in Core
New Database in Core provides 3-10x improved performance
ASAP client features
New real-time thin-client provides..
15 new HTML reporting options
New HTML Colors, Icons, Graphs
New Local, Remote, Proxy websites
New optional integration with SIM HP Systems Insight Manager
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17. ASAP 3.2 Server – Features Overview
Simplex Goals - provide Simple comma separated goals:
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 80
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 80, QUEUE < 3 (comma means “or”)
Boolean Goals - provide Boolean expression goals:
GOAL CPU, BusyAndQ = (BUSY < 80 AND QUEUE < 3)
GOAL DISK, DiskAlert = (BUSY<50 AND Chit>100) OR (Writes<10 AND Reads>50)
Escalating Goals - provide Escalating alerts/actions:
Escalating goals provide progressive escalating alert levels:
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 60 – no EMS alert, but alert in GUI
GOAL CPU, BUSY << 80 INFO – EMS informative alert
GOAL CPU, BUSY <<< 90 CRITICAL – EMS critical alert
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18. ASAP Server – Monitor Overview
ASAP object selection is provided with the MONITOR command
MONITOR <entity> <object>
If an entity has no objects selected, ASAP auto-configures the entity. Example... if no CPUs or Disks are selected, then all CPUs or Disks are monitored.
If an entity has objects selected, ASAP monitors only selected objects:
Monitor Cpu 0 – CPU 0 monitored
Monitor Cpu 1 – CPU 0 and 1 monitored
Monitor Disk $DATA1 – DISK $DATA1 monitored
Monitor Expand $LHNY – EXPAND line $LHNY monitored
Monitor File $System.System.Userid – File Userid monitored
Monitor Process $SRV1 – Process $SRV1 monitored
Monitor Process $SRV2 – Process $SRV2 monitored
Monitor Process $SRV* – Wildcards are supported
COMMIT – objectives are not committed to ASAP monitoring components until you commit changes to the database. This allows you to review, alter, or change your mind before committing configs.
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19. ASAP Server – Monitor Groups and Aggregates
Logical Groups – can be defined using ASAP MONITOR command
MONITOR <entity> <logical-hierarchical-name> <object>
Objects can be grouped into logical abstract hierarchical names
Aggregation can be performed across 10s, 100s, 1000s, ... of objects
Statistics can be computed across 10s, 100’s, 1000s, ... of objects
Aggregates allow huge performance benefits, e.g. 1000x less overhead
Example:
Monitor Process Funds \ Transfer \ $Fund1 Monitor Process Funds \ Transfer \ $Fund2 Monitor Process Funds \ Transfer \ $Fund3
Monitor Process Interest \ Rates \ Asia \ $Int1 Monitor Process Interest \ Rates \ Euro \ $Int2 Monitor Process Interest \ Rates \ USA \ $Int3
Monitor Process Loan \ Mortgage \ $Loan1 Monitor Process Loan \ Mortgage \ $Loan2 Monitor Process Loan \ Personal \ $Loan.. Monitor Process Loan \ Personal \ $Loan99 Monitor Process Loan \ ## ## - Tells ASAP to compute aggregate stats
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20. ASAP Server – GOAL Overview
ASAP objectives are configured using the GOAL command
ASAP Goals assert how things should be
GOAL CPU, BUSY<50 - Assert CPU Busy should be < 50%
GOAL CPU, QUEUE<5 - Assert CPU Queue should be < 5
ASAP provides Hierarchical Goals...
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 50 – All CPUs should be < 50% busy
GOAL CPU 0, BUSY<70 – But CPU 0 can be < 70%
GOAL CPU 1, BUSY<90 – And CPU 1 can be < 90%
Hierarchical goals can apply to any entity...
GOAL DISK, Full<50 – All DISKs should be < 50% full
GOAL DISK $D1, Full<70 – But disk $D1 can be < 70% full
GOAL DISK $D2, Full<90 – And disk $D2 can be < 90% full
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21. ASAP Server – GOALs and EMS alerts
ASAP can generate EMS alerts when a GOAL is not met
GOAL ... INFO | CRITICAL [ REPEAT ] [ <down> ] [ -<up> ]
ASAP EMS alerts can be informative, critical, repeating, and event numbers can be assigned... for example:
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 80 INFO
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 80 CRITICAL
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 80 CRITICAL REPEAT
GOAL CPU, BUSY < 80 CRITICAL REPEAT 6666
ASAP provides escalating goals... for example:
GOAL PROCESS $X, BUSY < 40 INFO
GOAL PROCESS $X, BUSY << 50 CRITICAL
GOAL PROCESS $X, BUSY<<< 60 ACTION SUSPEND
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22. ASAP Server – GOALs and Aggregates
Goals can be defined on aggregate “domains of service”
GOAL <entity> <aggregate-name>, <attribute-goal>
When goals are not met, the failing objects are alerted
Aggregate goals allow monitoring of “domains of service”
Example:
Monitor Process Funds \ Transfer \ $Fund1 Monitor Process Funds \ Transfer \ $Fund2 Monitor Process Funds \ Transfer \ $Fund3
Monitor Process Interest \ Rates \ Asia \ $Int1 Monitor Process Interest \ Rates \ Euro \ $Int2 Monitor Process Interest \ Rates \ USA \ $Int3
Monitor Process Loan \ Mortgage \ $Loan1 Monitor Process Loan \ Mortgage \ $Loan2 Monitor Process Loan \ Personal \ $Loan.. Monitor Process Loan \ Personal \ $Loan99 Monitor Process Loan \ ## GOAL Process Loan \ ##, BUSY < 45, PRI = 168
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23. ASAP Server – GOALs and ACTIONs
ASAP can take an ACTION when a goal is not met
GOAL ... ACTION <string> | <rule>
An ACTION can use existing rules... e.g. Suspend is a rule
GOAL PROCESS $X, BUSY<60 ACTION SUSPEND
Or an ACTION can use an “ad hoc” rule...
GOAL PROCESS $X, BUSY<60 ACTION “TACL SUSPEND <#object>”
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24. ASAP Server – GOALs and ACTIONs
GOALs and ACTIONs provide nearly unlimited possibilities
If Process $X priority not 150, then TACL ALTPRI $X, 150 GOAL PROCESS $X, PRIORITY 150 ACTION “TACL ALTPRI <#object>,<#goal>”
If USERID RWEP not OOOO, then re-secure it GOAL FILE $System.System.USERID, RWEP=OOOO ACTION “FUP SECURE <#object>,<#goal>”
If a DISK volume is too full, generate EMS alert, and run TACL macro “Cleanup” GOAL DISK, FULL<90 CRITICAL ACTION “TACL CLEANUP <#object>”
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25. ASAP 3.1 Server – Features Overview
New CIP entities - 3x new CLIM entities added to ASAP 3.1
Provides detailed instrumentation for CLIM i/o subsystem
New CLIM Interface Protocol (CIP) stats include:
CLIM Interface stats
CLIM Provider stats
CLIM Monitor stats
Blades attributes added to CPU, Process, and ProcessBusy
Provides enhanced monitoring detail on J-series blade systems
New attributes include Affinity, IPU number, IPU count, …
Cpu Busy averaged across all IPUs in logical Cpu
Cpu busy per individual IPU
Corrects a number of longstanding minor issues and bugs
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26. ASAP 3.0 Server – Features Overview
New TCP entities - 7x new entities in ASAP 3.0
Total TCP sub-entities now 19 TCP and Telserv entities
TCP + Telserv now included in ASAP 3.0 core product
New SWAP entity
Provides in-depth stats about Kernel managed storage facility
Show object details shows Swap files and usage
New CPU attributes added for memory and J-series
Provide detail about Memory usage
6 new memory state pairs
New Process and ProcessBusy attributes added for J-series
New Database
New DB structures provide up to 10x performance improvement
Database I/O block splits eliminated
Large record entities benefit the most from new structure, but is applicable to any entity type
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27. ASAP 3.0, 3,1, 3.2, ... Client New Features
Supports all new ASAP server entities and attributes
New HTML entity-attribute, grid-graph-icon reports provide a wide-range of new reporting options:
Reports can now be part of any ASAP Notification
Reports can be sent via , phone, pager, website
Can be generated by clicking new Current Entity Button
Can be Integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager – SIM
Can be Integrated with Stand alone customer web sites
Can be Integrated via Proxy with remote web sites
Can create On-the-fly HTML reports
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28. ASAP 3.2, ... Client – New Features
Security Enhancement Release
Support for SSL communications
Support for HP Digital Signing
Includes new gateway
Platform Enhancements:
Support for Windows 32/64-bit
Support for Windows 7, Vista, XP
Support for Windows Server 2008 & 2003
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29. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, ... Client – New Thin-Client Website interface
New with ASAP 3.0 are various thin client reports
ASAP can now integrate its statistics with stand-alone Local, Remote, or Proxy web sites.
ASAP HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) integration also included in ASAP 3.0
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30. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, ... Client * New Entity-Attribute Grid-Graph Reports
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31. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, ... Client * New Entity-Attribute Grid-Graph Report Notifications
Notify capabilities allow new reports to be sent to wireless phones, web sites, , pagers, SIM, etc...
Example on right: HTML report appears in Microsoft Outlook
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32. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, ... Client * New Entity-Attribute Grid-Graph Reports – Entity button
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33. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, ... Client - New Notify control options
15 new NOTIFY Content controls allow extreme customization
New Entity-Attribute Grid Reports
New Graphs checkbox
New Icons checkbox
New Border checkbox
New Color Gray, Max, Each options
New Shade checkbox
New Shell Show checkbox
New SIM checkbox for ASAP/SIM integration
New Shell File for auto-website maintenance
New Root File field for web site proxy
Click HELP button for documentation
Notes
Click the [..] button to the right of the Shell File field to obtain working examples of how to proxy Shell and Root files.
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34. ASAP 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, Summary
ASAP 3.1 – 3x new CLIM interface protocol (CIP) entities: CLIM, Monitor, Provider
ASAP 3.1 – new Stats Attributes on J-series Blades for Cpu, Process, ProcessBusy entities
ASAP 3.0 – new Thin-client interface in ASAP core
Optional integration with Systems Insight Manager aka SIM
New Thin-client, Real-time reporting via local, proxy, or SIM websites
New Color-encoded, Icons, Graphs, Shading included in new thin-client reports
New thin client reports can be sent via rich HTML notifications
15 new HTML reporting features
ASAP x TCP+TELSERV entities, 1000 new attributes included in ASAP core
TCP/IP – 16x Tcp/IP entity definitions
Telserv – 3x new Telserv entity definitions
TCP/IP has 7x new sub-entity hierarchies defined in RDL
ASAP New physical and virtual Memory statistics in ASAP core
SWAP KMSF entity is new and provides 47 KMSF attributes
CPU and SYSTEM entities provide 6 new memory attributes
ASAP Database performance enhancements in ASAP core
New DB structure provides 3-10x improved Database performance
REFRESH and BUFFERED can be turned on/off
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35. ASAPX API Product ASAPX API –
Allows customers to integrate in-depth monitoring of their NonStop applications with ASAP: Availability Statistics and Performance.
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36. ASAPX API – Enterprise 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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37. ASAPX API – Architectural Benefits
Includes a formal Entity Definition Language (EDL)
Includes rich Graphical User Interfaces (with Both Fat and Thin clients)
Monitors Availability, Stats, and Performance (not only performance)
Automatically manages long-term historical DB (weeks, months, years)
Interfaces to Enterprise Management Frameworks (OV, SIM, ...)
Supports multi-level hierarchical domains: \Entity\Dallas\ABC
Supports real-time hierarchical domain aggregation \A, \A\B, \A\B\C,
Provides automatic Notifications: EMS, alerts, and reports
Raises EMS alerts if Service-Level Objective Goals are not met
Performs automated notifications if goals are not met
Performs automated actions if goals are not met
Has extremely low-overhead. Does not use/require Measure (which can be of importance for high-volume OLTP apps).
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38. 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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39. ASAPX – API Interface - Example
Consumer
domain_name ‘:=‘ “\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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40. ASAP Web Resources HP NonStop ASAP - Technical Portal
ASAP Core - Examples
ASAP Operations SPI - Examples
ASAP Linux Datasheet
Hybrid for Linux Datasheet.pdf
ASAP Frequently Asked Questions
ASAP Documents
ASAP Down Loads
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