- Hewlett-Packard Monitor User's Guide

Chapter 2

Installing and Using Monitors

Installing EMS Hardware Monitors

The EMS Hardware Monitors software is distributed with the Support Tools (diagnostics). All the necessary

ﬁles for hardware monitoring are installed automatically when the Support Tools are installed. There are

several different ways that the Support Tools are installed:

• The Support Plus Media: installing the OnlineDiag depot from the Support Plus Media using swinstall.

• HP Software Depot website: downloading the “Support Tools for the HP 9000” in the “Enhancement

Releases” product category, then using swinstall to install the OnlineDiag depot.

• Automatic: with HP-UX 11i, the Support Tools are automatically installed from the OE CD-ROM when

the operating system is installed.

Complete instructions for installing STM are contained in Chapter 5 of the Support Plus: Diagnostics User's

Guide.

The following software components are installed for hardware monitoring:

• All hardware event monitors

• Monitor conﬁguration ﬁles

• Monitoring Request Manager

• EMS framework, including the EMS graphical interface

All EMS Hardware Monitors on the CD-ROM will be installed on your system, but only those that support

hardware resources you are using will be active. If you add a new hardware resource to your system that uses

an installed monitor, the monitor will be launched when the system is restarted or following the execution of

the IOSCAN utility (which performs a real/hard ioscan).

NOTE Reinstalling or upgrading the STM software will erase the current PSM conﬁguration. Any

MC/ServiceGuard package dependencies or EMS monitoring requests you have created with

the PSM will be lost. Before reinstalling the STM software, record the current PSM

conﬁguration so you can easily recreate it after the software has been installed. Or you can

comment out the PSM dependencies in the ServiceGuard conﬁguration ﬁles, then re-enable

them after the STM software has been installed.

IOSCAN Utility

When you execute the IOSCAN utility, a “real/hard” ioscan is performed. The utility performs a scan of your

system hardware, gathering the most-current information.

Conversely, ‘ioscan -k’ is used by hardware monitors and diagnostics to obtain their information about

conﬁgured devices. The data returned by ‘ioscan -k’ is only as accurate as the last system reboot, or when a

“real/hard” ioscan is executed. This means that if a device or component is added to / removed from the

system, a “real/hard” ioscan should be executed in order to ensure an updated IOSCAN table in the kernel for

use by the hardware monitors and diagnostics. Otherwise, the hardware monitors and diagnostics will

operate on a stale, inaccurate picture of the system’s conﬁguration.

Supported System Conﬁguration

To use the hardware event monitors, your system must meet the following requirements: