armtech, aurema - Aurema's ARMTech (Active Resource Management
Technology) resource management suite
This reference page provides a brief introduction to
Aurema's ARMTech resource management software for Tru64
UNIX. Full documentation and usage information is provided
in the software subsets. The software subsets are located
on the Associated Products CD-ROM supplied with your operating
system media kit. Refer to the Installation Guide
for information on locating and installing applications
from the Associated Products CD-ROM set.
Aurema ARMtech Product Suite Overview [Toc] [Back]
Tru64 UNIX supports Aurema's ARMTech (Active Resource Management
Technology) software product suite. This software
provides enhanced resource management capabilities and
consists of three products with increasing levels of
resource management capabilities as follows: ShareExpress
which provides an enhanced UNIX timeshare scheduler that
provides equal sharing on a per user basis.
The ShareExpress software is licensed with the base
operating system. The software subsets and documentation
are delivered on the Associated Products
CD-ROM. ShareExtra which provides differential
sharing of CPU (processor) resources to particular
users and applications. ShareEnterprise which provides
the following features: Sharing of CPU
resources based on UNIX users and groups and
ARMTech-defined applications (collections of processes)
Storage of historical and accounting information
Policy settings that persist across a reboot
CPU resources, resident set size, and process limits
The ShareExtra and ShareEnterprise functions require additional
licenses, enabled by Aurema's software licensing
using the FlexLM licensing technology. The software subsets
are located on the Associated Products CD-ROM set.
Refer to the Installation Guide for information on their
location, and instructions on how to install the subsets.
Some of the features of ShareExtra and ShareEnterprise
will be integrated over several releases. Refer to the
software license to determine which capabilities are in
which release, or refer to the Aurema web site atthe following
URL: www.aurema.com.
ARMTech Features [Toc] [Back]
Note
Some of the following features are still under development
and will be provided in a future update. Refer to Aurema's
web page at http://www.aurema.com/framesets/Frameset_solu-
tions.html for information on the features available.
Active resource management involves the management of computer
system resources such as: CPU resources, including
clock ticks and the number of processes Memory, including
the availability of main hardware memory and virtual (disk
or swap) memory, also memory management such as paging I/O
Disks, including space quotas and management such as file
and paging I/O System I/O, including network and disk I/O
bandwidth
The ARMTech suite provides the Tru64 UNIX administrator
with the means to manage many operating system entities,
such as Web sites or applications, in addition to users
and groups. The ability to manage many system entities
provides you with greater and more total control of system
resources than command-level resource management utilities
such as those offered by the runon command or processor
sets (psets). It is also much more comprehensive than the
process and user resource management utilities provided by
the Tru64 UNIX Class Scheduler. The latter does not provide
resource management for applications and can waste
unused resources if not carefully tuned.
The administrator is empowered to protect the system from
excessive resource consumption by any given application,
process, user, or group. In turn, this can provide benefits
as follows: Enhance resource utilisation by eliminating
resource starvation Decrease the need to troubleshoot
performance problems Potentially, reduce the need for
hardware upgrades or server proliferation and the associated
costs of installation, downtime and maintenance.
The ARMTech suite is a powerful suite for administering
systems (such as Web servers) where there is likely to be
contention for available resources.
The main features of Aurema's ARMTwech suite are: You can
an define accounting and management entities, known as
resource consumers. The resource consumers are: Software
applications, associated with one or more processes, identified
by ARMTech application identifiers (APPIDs). Individual
users, identified by UNIX user identifiers (UIDs).
Groups of users, identified by UNIX group identifiers
(GIDs). Resource usage accounting capabilities enable you
to monitor the use of system resources by resource consumers.
Such monitoring provides very fine levels of granularity.
For example, you can monitor a specific user in a
group of users that are using a particular software application.
Resource usage information is stored and persists
across reboots. Three methods enable you to manage the
resource consumption of entities: A relative resource
allocation or share that entitles the resource consumer to
a resource allocation proportional to the sum of the
shares held by all contesting peer resource consumers.
This method applies to resources such as CPU and I/O bandwidth.
A fixed resource reservation, which is a fixed
proportion of the total available resource. This method
also applies to resources such as CPU and I/O. An absolute
limit in the case of some system resources such as
virtual memory and number of processes.
The hierarchical structure of resource consumers
and resource distribution ensures that no resources
are idle. Capacity is fully matched to demand. You
define and administer policies that automatically
enforce limits and distribute system resources
without the need for further manual intervention.
The policy can be changed at any time without disrupting
the function of any executing programs.
The ARMTech suite provides both a comprehensive
command line interface, enabling scripting, and an
intuitive GUI that permits both novice and experienced
users to monitor resource usage and define
policies. Intelligent defaults ensure that ARMTech
is effective with little or no configuration so you
can obtain resource management benefits without
requiring an in-depth knowledge of either ARMTech
or the operating system. You can enhance your management
of system resources as your knowledge
grows.
class_scheduling(4) processor_sets(4)
When the ARMTech software subsets are installed, the following
reference pages are available: arm(1),armadmin(1),
armappl(1), armapprule(1), armattr(1), armdisplay(1),
armexec(1), armfb(1), armgui(1), armmsg(1), armpolicy(1),
armrep(1), armrepaselect(1), armrepdiff(1), armrepdist(1),
armrepeagg(1), armrepeselect(1), armreplog(1), armrepmaint(1), armrepmsg(1), armrepprint(1), armreprmold(1),
armrepsort(1), armset(1), armtable(1), armtech(1), application(4),apprules(4), armrepraw(4), armtech.conf(4), armrepspec(4), armreptemplate(4), armd(8), and armdb(8)
Installation Guide
ARMTech User Guide for Tru64 UNIX (located in the product
kit).
armtech(5)
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