List of Tables

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Chapter 2 Product Overview 7

Chapter 3 Product Startup 11

Chapter 4 Data Collection, Extraction, and Export 13

SOSLOGX Forecast Analysis prompts 21

SOSLOGD command line switch functions 25

SOSLOGD default configuration parameters 26

SOSLOGD advanced configuration parameters 26

Forecast prompts 29

Chapter 5 Quick Tour for MPE/iX Systems 31

Chapter 6 Quick Tour for HP-UX Systems 47

Acceptable resource validation thresholds 51

Suggested Font parameters 54

Suggested Size parameters 55

Chapter 7 Forecast Window Panes 61

Chapter 8 Menus and Commands 67

Example validation messages 70

General View options 81

General Graph options 84

Fonts options 86

Sizes options 87

Borders options 88

Aspect options 89

Chart Colors options 91

Resources.dat file download options 99

Chapter 9 Model Creation and Validation 113

Validation thresholds 115

Example validation messages 117

Edit Workload parameters 123

Disk Edit parameters 126

CPU parameters 127

Chapter 10 Model Forecasting 129

Forecast options 130

Rates options 133

Appendix A Keyboard Commands 139

Appendix B Program Messages 147