RPM Offender Analysis RPM product release RPM supports

RPM - Offender Analysis RPM product release

RPM supports multiple nodes/segments n n n RPM supports concurrent display and analysis of multiple-nodes/segments. Due to unique architecture, RPM can support an unlimited number of nodes/segments in linearly expandable fashion. Offender does not provide analysis or display of multiple-nodes/segments 2

RPM supports wide selection criteria n RPM supports a wide range of selection criteria including selection by: By individual Cpu n By all Cpus in a node n By selected sets of nodes/segments n By selection of entire network of node/segments n By various metrics such as busy, inputs, outputs, IOs, memory, page faults, queue length, etc, . . . n n Offender does not handle multiple-node networks 3

RPM provides user thresholds n RPM supports user configured threshold-levels including INFORMATIVE thresholds n WARNING thresholds n CRITICAL thresholds n n Offender does not provide thresholds 4

RPM supports color-encoded highlighting n RPM provides color-encoded highlighting Color-encoded stats are easy to understand: Red - Critical n Yellow - Warning n Blue - Informative n n Offender doesn’t provide color-encoded data 5

RPM is device aware n n RPM is device aware Supports many device types, including: n n n ANSI VT 100 T 6530 TTY devices Can also stream tabular output to disk or process Offender does not support multiple device types, nor understand different device control characters. 6

RPM supports super-sized devices n RPM supports super-sized devices, including control/support for super-large: ANSI & VT 100 - 300 column x 300 line displays n T 6530 devices 80 x 25 displays n T 6530 devices 132 x 54 displays n n Offender does not understand large format super-sized devices such as ANSI and VT 100 devices 7

RPM is an officially supported HP product n RPM - officially supported HP product GMCSC fully trained on RPM n GMCSC provides official HP customer product support for the RPM product n RPM installed and running on 100 s of internal and customer systems n n Offender not officially supported HP product 8

RPM fully documented in NTL n RPM is fully documented n n n Manual fully maintained as indexed PDF file Manual updated as new releases come out Product manual is online and public facing RPM manual is officially posted and updated in the HP Non. Stop Technical Library (NTL). NTL was previously located at docs. hp. com, now is at www. hp. com/go/nonstop-docs Offender has no manuals in NTL 9

RPM does not require Measure n RPM does not require Measure RPM startup very fast n RPM does not need to start Measure subsystem n RPM does not need to start a Measurement. n RPM startup simple, eg TACL 1 > RPM n n Offender requires Measure, as a result Offender startup is slower for ad hoc query/peek type situations. 10

RPM cannot HALT systems n n n RPM cannot HALT processors ! RPM uses officially documented, standard NSK API interfaces Offender uses high-risk, undefined-buffer-length API interface known to cause buffer overruns Offender known to cause total system Halts Offender Halt %5100’s continue to occur References to Offender system halt codes: n n Case 10 -080615 -8113 – June 15, 2008 Non. Stop & Neoview Alert - April 29, 2009 11

RPM installation and startup is easy n RPM includes simple setup wizard RPM installation is simple and straightforward n Wizard conducts an English language style question & answer interview n Regardless of whether RPM is being installed on just 1 x node or on 100 x nodes, installation and setup is simple and easy n n Offender has no setup wizard, and does not handle multi-node networks. 12

RPM supports Fat/Thin/DB front-ending n RPM Table output can be front-ended for fat, thin, DB front-end usage, ref: RPM - White Paper for discussion/examples: n http: //Nonstop. RPM. com/Document. htm n n Offender does easily not lend itself to fat, thin, DB front-ending 13

RPM development is ongoing n RPM ongoing development and support is driven by RPM customer RFEs drive RPM new product development n Significant new features result from RFEs n New product releases are in plan n n Offender has no support, no development, and no new releases are in plan, Offender is not an HP product 14

RPM - Evolution n RPM Update #2 - Driven by customer RFEs n n n n Update #2 included significant new enhancements New feature requests driven by customers New BY options provide new sorting and discovery New Display options provide side-by-side short and long term statistics views New performance enhancements include 10 -20 x response time improvements. Messaging overhead reduced by 1000 x! Offender has no new features nor bug fixes Offender does not accept customer RFEs 15