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Integrations with Other Applications

Application Response Measurement (ARM) Integration

Application Response Measurement (ARM)

Integration

What Is the ARM Data Protector supports the emerging standard for measuring the

Integration? response time of transactions in distributed environments, the Application Response Measurement (ARM) interface. Data provided by Data Protector can be used in ARM-compliant system management and monitoring tools, such as HP OpenView Performance Agent. Such tools can log this information for trend analysis, reporting, or alert-based notifications. The collected data can be viewed and analyzed by HP OpenView PerformanceManageror some other tool.

How to Install the For the installation, all you need is the ARM 2.0 compatible RPM agent ARM Integration and the ARM 2.0-compliant library installed on the Cell Manager. It

does not matter whether you install them before or after the Data Protector installation.

With a UNIX Cell Manager, you need to replace the dummy library /opt/omni/lib/arm/libarm.sl (HP-UX) or /opt/omni/lib/arm/libarm.so (Solaris) with the appropriate ARM library that actually logs transactions, or create a link to it. It is recommended to create a link. For example, in case of HP OpenView Performance Agent on an HP-UX 11.x Cell Manager, you need to link the above mentioned file to the /opt/perf/lib/libarm.sl file. Note that the /opt/perf/lib/libarm.sl file links to libarm.0:

Windows Cell Managers require no additional steps for setting up the

ARM Integration.

What Can Be The following information can be measured with the ARM integration:

Measured?

•Overall session duration

•Disk Agent read times

•Disk Agent network write times

•Media Agent network read times

•Media Agent data write times

•Session Manager write to database time

•Database purge duration

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