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Integrated products with Kardinia Software
Kardinia Performance Reporter provides reports on the performance of IP networks and systems allowing a network manager to get reports on metrics like link utilization, link errors, packet drop rates, CPU utilization in routers, buffer utilization in nodes, and CPU, memory, and disk utilization on server systems. It can be used to produce baselines and to compare current performance with established baselines in order to detect trends. Analysis of utilization trends allows a network manager to carry out network capacity planning. Analysis of trends in link errors and congestion metrics allows a network manager to detect impending failures and take preventive action.
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Kardinia Performance Reporter (KPR) is a client-server application. Kardinia Performance Reporter for HP Software is closely integrated with HP Network Node Manager software. The server component is installed as processes that run under the control of the Network Node Manager process manager and that make use of the Network Node Manager databases and APIs. You set up data collection using the Network Node Manager data collector, so you do not need to redefine node names to KPR.
Kardinia Performance Reporter is installed as one or more Report Clients and one or more Report Servers. A Report Client runs on a Windows® XP/2000 platform and integrates with a copy of Microsoft® Excel running on the same platform. The client provides the desktop graphical user interface for defining, scheduling, viewing, and printing reports. The reports are produced in Excel and can be displayed and saved as either Excel files or as HTML files for publishing on the Web. A Report Server runs on a Windows XP/2003/2000, Solaris, or HP-UX platform and integrates with a copy of HP Network Node Manager software running on the same platform.
The Report Server processes the raw SNMP MIB variable or MIB expression data collected by the HP Software data collector. It performs data reduction and calculates derived values and sends these back to the client. The use of intelligent Report Servers means that the raw data does not need to be transferred to a central point or duplicated in a central database. This avoids duplication of data storage, avoids manual steps in data exports, transfers, and processing, and saves on network bandwidth.
The Report Client is used to define new network and system performance metrics when necessary, and to define new network and system performance reports that tabulate or graph metrics for target nodes. The Report Client may connect to any one of the installed Report Servers and request that one of the defined reports be generated. The reports can be set up for automatic production at scheduled times.
A large set of standard metric and report definitions is shipped with the product.
Kardinia Performance Reporter v3.1 for HP Network Node Manager software has been integrated with the following HP Software products. Click on the HP product name to get more information about the product.
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Operating systems |
Integration status |
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HP Network Node Manager 6.x, 7.x
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HP-UX 10, 11
Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 8 or 9
Microsoft Windows® XP, 2000 or 2003 |
Integrated |
For more information about the HP Software products mentioned on this page or to inquire about the alliance between HP and Kardinia Software, contact HP. Date last updated: 2005-07-01
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