Chapter 1 Features in This Release

Capacity Advisor can be used to pose questions about changes in system configuration. Changes such as the following can be tested:

Capacity Advisor can use data collected over time to show the results of these configuration changes in many ways. Graphical views are available so you can see what the effects of the changes are over time. Tables are available that give the percentage of time and the degree to which the system is busy; this information is valuable in comparing utilization and quality of service before and after a change. Other tables show how many minutes per month the system is unacceptably busy – a measure valuable for both quality of service and for estimating TiCAP bills. Because Capacity Advisor works from data traces collected over time, it is much more accurate than using only peak data or average data in understanding your systems and the workloads they support.

For a comprehensive description of the features of HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor, see Getting Started with HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor^[2].

	IMPORTANT: Capacity Advisor is for use on HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2. Both the CMS and any monitored systems must run these OS's.