Background
HP discontinued LaserRX and replaced it with MeasureWare PerfView on Windows
NT/2000 to access the
Scope/iX data.
While LaserRX was able to access the Scope/iX data files directly, the NT tool
requires
- an EXPORT out of Scope/iX and
- a FTP transfer from the HP e3000 to a Windows NT/2000 Workstation
before you can start to analyze the data.
To reduce this to one step (the Scope/iX EXPORT) by creating files which are
accessible directly on HP e3000 via
- Samba/iX by using the MS Explorer, or
- Apache/iX using a Web Browser like Netscape Navigator or MS Internet
Explorer or Opera,
you may want to use
Ploticus/iX.
My practice is the following:
- per Global Graph I have one file which contains the REPORT statements for
the Scope/iX EXPORT, and
- a second file containing the commands for Ploticus/iX.
- For easy use on-line or in batch mode to create the graphs I wrote a
commandfile named GLOCI.
- GLOCI:
PARM EXTR_REP="GLOCPU" DAYS=1 FORMAT="gif" TARGETDIR="/APACHE"
SETVAR PLOTX_CMD "!EXTR_REP"+"X"
CONTINUE
PURGE I!HPPIN > $NULL
CONTINUE
PURGE R!HPPIN > $NULL
CONTINUE
XEQ !EXTR_REP
CONTINUE
PURGE I!HPPIN,TEMP > $NULL
ECHO LOGFILE LOGGLOB.SCOPE.SYS > I!HPPIN
ECHO REPORT R!HPPIN >> I!HPPIN
ECHO GLOBAL SUMMARY >> I!HPPIN
ECHO EXPORT >> I!HPPIN
ECHO EXIT >> I!HPPIN
SAVE I!HPPIN
SETJCW RXKEY=3
EXTRACT.SCOPE.SYS;PARM=!DAYS < I!HPPIN > $NULL
PLOTX !PLOTX_CMD,,!FORMAT,!TARGETDIR
CONTINUE
PURGE !TARGETDIR/!PLOTX_CMD!DAYS.!FORMAT > $NULL
RENAME !TARGETDIR/!PLOTX_CMD.!FORMAT,!TARGETDIR/!PLOTX_CMD!DAYS.!FORMAT
PURGE I!HPPIN > $NULL
PURGE R!HPPIN > $NULL
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Remarks:
- Only SM (System Manager) can run this because of the Security setup within
Scope/iX.
- This setup requires two files per graph:
- The commands for EXTRACT.SCOPE.SYS, e.g. GLOJSS.
- The commands for Ploticus/iX, e.g. GLOJSSX. This file is used by the PLOTX
commandfile.
- The resulting graph is named: EXTRACT_COMMAND_FILENAME plus X
plus number_of_reported_days plus .(dot) plus format, e.g.
GLOJSSX6.gif.
Example: To see the Global CPU Utilization of the last seven
days, type :
GLOCI GLOCPU,7. The result will look like
this (58KB).
To get the same in png format, type :
GLOCI GLOCPU,7,png. The result will
look like
this (10KB).
Here all ported
LaserRX Global Graphs:
To access all six
different pictures per LaserRX Graph I created as examples just click
here.
Remark:
Please take into consideration that the setup fits on the HP3000 I use for
these graphs. Some parameters in the X-files may need an adoption for YOUR
HPe3000!