About Trending And Forecasting - HPE XP7 User Manual

1. From the HPE XP7 Performance Advisor main menu, navigate to a component screen, Actions >
Real Time.
This will start the real-time plotting of data for all the metrics that support the real-time feature among
the selected metrics. The icon Realtime... appears in the Date/time filter pane, indicating the real-time
charting of performance data has begun.
2. To plot real-time data for more metrics, go to Actions > Select Metrics, and add metrics that support
real-time.
NOTE:
• To stop real-time data collection, click Reset.
• This feature is enabled only in certain metrics, for the metrics that do not have real-time
monitoring, the graphs will normally plot the historical data points.
• The real-time performance graphs are not displayed for components that are currently not
processing any I/O requests (described as unused components).
3. If you want to monitor the real-time data of individual metrics, then navigate to the required metrics in
Chart View, right-click, and select Real Time. You can monitor one or more metrics in this manner.
IMPORTANT:
You can also initiate real-time feature for supporting metrics from the Templates screen.
Stopping real-time data collection
To stop monitoring real-time data, click Reset adjacent to the Date/time filters.
NOTE: The real time feature also stops when you select a new component in the master pane or
navigate to a different screen in the main menu.

About trending and forecasting

Chart the performance characteristics of a disk array over a specified time interval, by using trending and
forecasting option. These charts helps to recognize patterns and anomalies associated with specific time
when a certain activity takes place. The forecasting can be for a day, a week, or a month based on the
current data points.
The trending and forecasting is supported for following metrics:
• Maximum Port IO - Frontend
• Average Port IO - Frontend
• Maximum Port MB - Frontend
• Average Port MB - Frontend
• Port Hourly Throughputt
• Port Daily Throughput
• Cache Writes Pending Utilization
• CLPR MPB Usage Utilization
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