READ THIS FILE COMPLETELY BEFORE USING THE ASNAP TOOL

Copyright 2006 Hewlett Packard Company

    Product Name:         ASNAP - Snapshot Tool for ASAP Disk and
                                  Comm

    Release Date:         01FEB2006


Installation Instructions:

     Copy the ASNAP program to $System.System.Asnap This tool is an
     executable program file, it should have a file code 100.


Background:

   ** HP Availability Stats And Performance (ASAP) provides a
      monitoring infrastructure for monitoring the status and
      performance of system objects and application domains.

   ** The ASAP product allows you to configure which domains
      -objects- you wish to monitor, and the objectives -thresholds-
      for attributes of those domains.  ASAP also allows the user to
      configure corrective actions when an objective for all or some
      objects are not meeting the objective that the user has
      configured.

Overview:

   ** The ASAP enities Disk, and Comm, offer the user to set
      objectives and opionally allows the user to specify corrective
      actions against the objects that these entities are
      monitioring when the user defined threshold is not met.

      The disk entity also allows the user to set objectives on the
      attributes, primary path, percentage full, largest fragment
      and opionally allow ASAP to take corrective actions when the
      an object does not meet configured objectives.

   ** One convenient way to configure the disk attributes is to get
      the current cpu, current paths, current disk full percentage,
      and current largest fragment on each volume, and then take a
      "snapshot picture" of this setup and configure ASAP to raise
      alerts when any of the disk thresholds are not being met.

   ** The ASNAP tool captures the current disks, and comm lines,
      configuration on the system, then translates this
      configuration into ASAP GOAL commands.

   ** ASNAP creates 2 output EDIT files which contain Goal and
      optional action commands. These output files can then be
      modified if you wish, then used as input files to ASAP CI or
      OBEYed directly from ASAP CI prompt.


Usage:

   ** ASNAP is typically used in 4 steps, including 2 optional
      steps:

   Step 1) **optional** Get on-line Help about the tool:

           TACL> ASNAP HELP


   Step 2) Capture the current configuration of disks:

           TACL> ASNAP DISK CPU CRITICAL COMM CPU ACTION


   Step 3) **optional** Edit the contents of output files:

           TACL> EDIT GOALDSK

           TACL> EDIT GOALCMM


   Step 4) Configure ASAP with the current disks setup:

           TACL> ASAP /in GOALDSK/

           TACL> ASAP /in GOALCMM/

          or
           TACL> ASAP
                 + OBEY GOALDSK
                 + OBEY GOALCMM

New Feature History:

   ** 2 additonal disk attributes Full and Fragment have been added.

   ** The ability to take corrective actions on any of the disk
      attributes Cpu, path (P or M), and largest disk fragment.

   ** Communication line configuration for the attribute CPU and
      optionally configure the action SCF primary line.

   ** Run time parameter checks.

Problems Corrected History:

   ** [20Dec05] Asnap would create incorrect goal commands for the
      disk entity when only the option repeat was specified.  This
      problem has been corrected.

Known Problems Remaining:

   ** None