Hi Al,

We use HP's GlancePlusPak/iX which consists out of an on-line monitor Glance/iX
and a data collection tool called Scope/iX. It looks like MeasureWare on Unix
(but is a bit different, unfortunately, if you will analyse the data with a
PerfView Server on Unix).

On-line tool will show you the current load of the system in all different
aspects like CPU, Memory, Disk, down to process level.

The data collector will enable you to do some analysis for comparison between
months. weeks, days, hours, ... to what extend you'll need.

As far as I know you may already have a demo on your 3000 (30 days) but I'm not
sure because we bought the tool years ago.

For a graphical view of the data, there is still an unsupported tool within HP
sites called LaserRX ...
The official tool is a PerfView on NT Workstation I do not like ... in other
posts I already documented why.
The 3rd freeware solution is Ploticus/iX (sorry if I annoy somebody ...) a
freeware for HPe3000 producing gif or png out of Scope/iX data (or any other
number collection ...). http://www.hillschmidt.de/ploticus/

Other 3rd Party packages are available like Lund Performance Box - and sorry to
all I do not know because we're happy with Scope/Glance on HP-UX as well.

Best regards, Andreas Schmidt, CSC, Germany





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We got a couple of 948s running our inventory management and order
processing system. We intend to link a commerce server to one of the 948s,
capture orders vi the web and pass them on to the 3000 for stock allocation.
What we are not sure of is what load we would be putting on the system or
what is the current load on the 3000s. Can someone share their experience in
similar situations and tell me how we can measure the current load /
performance of the machines with the objectives of determining whether the
machines with their current load are capable of taking on extra processing
load as a result of integration with an E-commerce server.

Thanks
Al