HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) manual Introduction to PRM commands

cores (PSET). Processes in a PSET have equal access to CPU cycles on their assigned cores through the HP-UX standard scheduler.

Memory	Specifies a PRM group’s memory allocation, either of private memory or shared
	memory. There are two types of memory records:
	•	Private
		Specifies a minimum amount of private memory. Optionally specifies a
		cap on memory use as well as memory isolation (so that memory cannot
		be loaned out or borrowed from other groups).
	•	Shared
		Specifies a minimum amount of memory in megabytes for use as shared
		memory for the processes in that PRM group.
		PRM groups without a shared memory record default to PRM_SYS for shared
		memory allocation.
Application	Specifies an application (either explicitly or by regular expression) and the PRM
	group in which the application should run. Optionally, it specifies alternate
	names the application can take at execution. (Alternate names are most common
	for complex programs such as database programs that launch many processes
	and rename them.)
User	Specifies a user or a collection of users (through a netgroup) and assigns the
	user or netgroup to an initial PRM group. Optionally, it specifies alternate PRM
	groups. A user or netgroup member then has permissions to use these PRM
	groups with the prmmove and prmrun commands.
Unix group	Maps existing Unix groups to PRM groups.
Compartment	Maps existing secure compartments to PRM groups. (Use the optional HP-UX
	feature Security Containment to create the secure compartment configurations.
	You can also create compartment configurations using a PRM utility such as
	srpgen or prm2scomp.)

For more detailed information on records, see the prmconf(4) manpage.

Introduction to PRM commands

PRM supports the commands below. For more information about a command, see its manpage or the “Command reference” (page 101).

prmagt	PRM’s read-only SNMP agent.
prmanalyze	Allows you to analyze resource usage and contention to help plan PRM
	configurations.
prmavail	Displays estimated resource availability to help plan PRM configurations.
prmconfig	Configures, enables, disables, and resets PRM. Also, validates PRM
	configuration files and controls PRM’s message logging. You can also perform
	these tasks using the PRM graphical interface in HP System Management
	Homepage (SMH) or HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM).
prminitconfig	Configure or unconfigure the PRM GUI to be available in HP Systems Insight
	Manager (SIM).
prmlist	Displays the current PRM group, memory, user, and application information.
prmloadconf	Creates a PRM configuration file or updates an existing configuration file.
prmmonitor	Monitors current PRM configuration and resource usage by PRM group.
prmmove	Moves processes or groups of processes to another PRM group.
prmrecover	Cleans up processes after abnormal memory manager termination.

12 Overview