What kind of applications can HP-UX WLM manage?
HP-UX WLM adjusts CPU allocations and is best-suited for managing applications that are CPU-intensive. The quickest way to manage an application is by CPU usage: you can define a CPU usage goal as part of a WLM SLO. WLM also provides the flexibility to base CPU allocations on any metric you provide. You can define goals based on this metric. Metric goals are based on performance data and require understanding of that data. HP recommends using usage goals instead—usage goals can be implemented immediately without prior knowledge of workload performance. HP-UX WLM allows you to automate changing resource allocations based on something that can be measured on the system. If for any reason you want to change allocations on the fly, and if the changes are in response to a measurable system event, the time, or the date, then HP-UX WLM can do that.
