RPM - Offender

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RPM - Offender

• Analysis
• RPM product release

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RPM supports multiple nodes/segments

• 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

• 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, ...
• Offender does not handle multiple-node networks

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RPM provides user thresholds

• RPM supports user configured threshold-levels
  including
• INFORMATIVE thresholds
• WARNING thresholds
• CRITICAL thresholds
• Offender does not provide thresholds

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RPM supports color-encoded highlighting

• RPM provides color-encoded highlightingColor-enco
  ded stats are easy to understand
• Red - Critical
• Yellow - Warning
• Blue - Informative
• Offender doesnt provide color-encoded data

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RPM is device aware

• RPM is device aware
• Supports many device types, including
• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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
• Offender not officially supported HP product

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RPM fully documented in NTL

• RPM is fully documented
• 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 updatedin
  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

• 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 gt RPM
• 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

• 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 5100s continue to occur
• References to Offender system halt codes
• Case 10-080615-8113 June 15, 2008
• NonStop Neoview Alert - April 29, 2009

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RPM installation and startup is easy

• 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
• Offender has no setup wizard, and does not handle
  multi-node networks.

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RPM supports Fat/Thin/DB front-ending

• 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
• Offender does easily not lend itself to fat,
  thin, DB front-ending

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RPM development is ongoing

• 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
• 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

• RPM Update 2 - Driven by customer RFEs
• 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
  fixesOffender does not accept customer RFEs