This guide contains the following new or changed information for the Performance Co-Pilot release 2.2.
The optional add-on products PCP_Web and PCP_HPC have been subsumed into the core PCP product. As a result, there are a significant number of new tools and Performance Metrics Domain Agents (PMDAs) in this release.
Support for the SGI 3000 server series has also been added with a new visualization specific to these systems in the oview program.
New Web-server performance monitoring and visualization tools include the following:
| Tool | Description |
| pmgweb | pmgadgets front end |
| weblogvis | Traffic monitoring |
| webping and webpingvis | Web service monitoring |
| webvis | System overview tailored for Web servers |
Two new PMDAs provide the metric collection for the performance monitoring and visualization tools:
| pmdawebping |
| pmdaweblog |
The monitoring and visualization tools for High Performance Computing (HPC) are composed of the following:
| Tool | Description |
| arrayvis, arraytop, and ashtop | Array services |
| mpivis and mpimon | MPI applications |
| procvis | Processes across a collection of hosts |
| clustervis and pmgcluster | Clusters of hosts |
New PMDAs from PCP_HPC include the following:
| pmdaarray |
| pmdampi |
| pmdadmf |
| pmdaash |
| pmdahippi |
pmdabrocade, a new PMDA to extract traffic data from a BRACADE SAN switch, has been released.
pmchart has been updated with a collection of Views:
| Tool | Description |
| Web.Alarms, Web.Allservers, Web.Perserver.Bytes, Web.Perserver.Requests, Web.Requests, and Web.Response | Monitoring Web servers |
| DMF.Active.Admin, DMF.Active.User, DMF.Avg.Allreqs, DMF.Avg.Migrations, DMF.Avg.Throughput, DMF.LongAvg.Filesizes, and DMF.ShortAvg.Filesizes | Data Management Facility (DMF) |
| HIPPIBypass, HIPPIBytes, and HIPPIPackets | HIPPI connections |
The pmchart View CrayLinks has been renamed NUMAlinks.
In addition, miscellaneous editing changes were made throughout the document.