Transcript RPM vs Offender

RPM - Offender
Analysis
RPM product release
RPM supports multiple nodes/segments
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RPM supports concurrent display and
analysis of multiple-nodes/segments.
Due to unique architecture, RPM can
support an unlimited number of
nodes/segments in linearly expandable
fashion.
Offender does not provide analysis or
display of multiple-nodes/segments
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RPM supports wide selection criteria
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RPM supports a wide range of selection
criteria including selection by:
By individual Cpu
 By all Cpus in a node
 By selected sets of nodes/segments
 By selection of entire network of node/segments
 By various metrics such as busy, inputs,
outputs, IOs, memory, page faults, queue
length, etc, ...
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Offender does not handle
multiple-node networks
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RPM provides user thresholds
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RPM supports user configured
threshold-levels including
INFORMATIVE thresholds
 WARNING thresholds
 CRITICAL thresholds
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Offender does not provide thresholds
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RPM supports color-encoded highlighting
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RPM provides color-encoded highlighting
Color-encoded stats are easy to understand:
Red - Critical
 Yellow - Warning
 Blue - Informative
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Offender doesn’t provide color-encoded data
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RPM is device aware
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RPM is device aware
Supports many device types, including:
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ANSI
VT100
T6530
TTY devices
Can also stream tabular output to disk or process
Offender does not support multiple device types,
nor understand different device control characters.
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RPM supports super-sized devices
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RPM supports super-sized devices,
including control/support for super-large:
ANSI & VT100 - 300 column x 300 line displays
 T6530 devices 80 x 25 displays
 T6530 devices 132 x 54 displays
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Offender does not understand large format
super-sized devices such as ANSI and
VT100 devices
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RPM is an officially supported HP product
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RPM - officially supported HP product
GMCSC fully trained on RPM
 GMCSC provides official HP customer
product support for the RPM product
 RPM installed and running on 100s
of internal and customer systems
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Offender not officially supported HP product
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RPM fully documented in NTL
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RPM is fully documented
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Manual fully maintained as indexed PDF file
Manual updated as new releases come out
Product manual is online and public facing
RPM manual is officially posted and updated
in the HP NonStop Technical Library (NTL).
NTL was previously located at docs.hp.com,
now is at www.hp.com/go/nonstop-docs
Offender has no manuals in NTL
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RPM does not require Measure
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RPM does not require Measure
RPM startup very fast
 RPM does not need to start Measure
subsystem
 RPM does not need to start a Measurement.
 RPM startup simple, eg TACL 1 > RPM
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Offender requires Measure, as a result
Offender startup is slower for ad hoc
query/peek type situations.
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RPM cannot HALT systems
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RPM cannot HALT processors !
RPM uses officially documented,
standard NSK API interfaces
Offender uses high-risk, undefined-buffer-length
API interface known to cause buffer overruns
Offender known to cause total system Halts
Offender Halt %5100’s continue to occur
References to Offender system halt codes:
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Case 10-080615-8113 – June 15, 2008
NonStop & Neoview Alert - April 29, 2009
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RPM installation and startup is easy
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RPM includes simple setup wizard
RPM installation is simple and straightforward
 Wizard conducts an English language style
question & answer interview
 Regardless of whether RPM is being installed
on just 1 x node or on 100 x nodes, installation
and setup is simple and easy
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Offender has no setup wizard, and does not
handle multi-node networks.
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RPM supports Fat/Thin/DB front-ending
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RPM Table output can be front-ended for
fat, thin, DB front-end usage, ref:
RPM - White Paper for discussion/examples:
 http://NonstopRPM.com/Document.htm
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Offender does easily not lend itself
to fat, thin, DB front-ending
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RPM development is ongoing
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RPM ongoing development and support
is driven by RPM customer RFEs
RFEs drive RPM new product development
 Significant new features result from RFEs
 New product releases are in plan
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Offender has no support, no development,
and no new releases are in plan,
Offender is not an HP product
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RPM - Evolution
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RPM Update #2 - Driven by customer RFEs
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Update #2 included significant new enhancements
New feature requests driven by customers
New BY options provide new sorting and discovery
New Display options provide side-by-side
short and long term statistics views
New performance enhancements include 10-20x
response time improvements.
Messaging overhead reduced by 1000x!
Offender has no new features nor bug fixes
Offender does not accept customer RFEs
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