Other functions WLM provides

Run in passive mode to verify operation

WLM provides a passive mode that allows you to see how WLM will approximately respond to a given configuration—without putting WLM in charge of your system’s resources. Using this mode, you can check that your configuration behaves as expected and with minimal effect on the system. Besides being useful in understanding and experimenting with WLM, passive mode can be helpful in capacity-planning activities.

Auditing and billing

When you activate a WLM configuration or a WLM global arbiter configuration, you have the option of generating audit data. You can use the audit data files directly or view them using the wlmaudit command. For more information, see wlmaudit(1M), wlmd(1M), and wlmpard(1M).

Optimize use of Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP)

Temporary Instant Capacity activates capacity in a temporary “calling-card” fashion such as in 20-day or 30-day increments (where a day equals 24 hours for one core). With this option, you can activate and deactivate processors as needed. You purchase a TiCAP codeword to obtain usage rights for a preset amount of days. The Temporary Instant Capacity codeword is applied to a system so you can turn on and off any number of Instant Capacity cores on the system as long as your prepaid amount of temporary capacity has not expired.

If you have WLM on a Temporary Instant Capacity system (using v6 or later), you can configure WLM to minimize the costs of using these resources. You do so by optimizing the amount of time the resources are used to meet the needs of your workloads.

For more information on this feature, see “Integrating with Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP)/ Pay per use (PPU)” and wlmparconf(4) and wlmpard(1M).

Integrate with various third-party products

HP has developed a number of toolkits to assist you in quickly and effectively deploying WLM for use with your key applications. The freely available WLM Toolkits product consists of several toolkits, each with example configuration files. Toolkits are currently available for:

WLM Toolkits are included with WLM. They are also freely available on the following Web site:

http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot

For more information on the toolkits, see the HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits User’s Guide on http://docs.hp.com/hpux/netsys/ or wlmtk(5).