Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.11.01, A.04.20.23.01, and A.04.20.31.01 Release Notes

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Event Monitoring Service Version

A.04.20.11.01, A.04.20.23.01, and

A.04.20.31.01 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3

HP Part Number: B7609-90055

Published: May 2008

Edition: 0805

Summary of content (13 pages)

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Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.11.01, A.04.20.23.01, and A.04.20.31.
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Table of Contents 1 Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.11.01, A.04.20.23.01, and A.04.20.31.01 Release Notes..........................................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................6 Product Overview...................................................................................................................................
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List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 4 EMS Hardware and HP-UX Compatibility.....................................................................................8 EMS Serviceguard Compatibility....................................................................................................8 EMS Product Filesets.....................................................................................................................
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1 Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.11.01, A.04.20.23.01, and A.04.20.31.
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Announcement Event Monitoring Service™ (EMS) version A.04.20.11.01, A.04.20.23.01, and A.04.20.31.01 is being released for use on the Integrity and PA-RISC platforms with the HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 operating system respectively. You can use EMS together with one or more EMS monitors to monitor various system resources. The EMS product includes the framework and general monitors. You can configure EMS to monitor system resources through monitoring requests.
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NOTE: If you require the EMS MIB definitions to handle EMS SNMP trap notifications, you can obtain it as part of the EMS Developer’s Kit available from http://www.hp.com/go/ softwaredepot. EMS templates for HP OpenView ITO/ITO-SE, and EMS SNMP trap templates for HP OpenView NNM are also part of the EMS Developer’s Kit. NOTE: Textlog notification requests must specify a file in the /var/opt/resmon/log directory. If another directory is specified the default text log file, EMS displays an error message.
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Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements EMS must be installed on each node that you want to monitor. If you want to monitor the management station, then EMS must be installed on the management station also. Compatibility with HP-UX Releases Table 1-1 EMS Hardware and HP-UX Compatibility EMS Version Compatible HP-UX Releases Compatible Hardware EMS A.03.20.01 HP-UX 11i v1 HP 9000 Servers EMS A.03.40 HP-UX 11i v1.6 HP Integrity Server EMS A.04.
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Table 1-2 EMS Serviceguard Compatibility (continued) EMS Version HP-UX Release Serviceguard Version A.04.00.01 HP-UX 11i v2 Serviceguard A.11.15.00 Serviceguard Extension for RAC (formerly known as Serviceguard OPS Edition) A.11.15.00 A.04.00.02 HP-UX 11i v1 Serviceguard A.11.15.00 Serviceguard Extension for RAC (formerly known as Serviceguard OPS Edition) A.11.15.00 A.04.10 HP-UX 11i v2 (includes revisions for Serviceguard A.11.16.
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are provided with the templates. You can then download the templates by clicking the Receive for Free button at the bottom of the page. Disk Requirements You will need approximately 8 MB of disk space on your system to install EMS. The following EMS log files require 4 MB of disk space in the/etc/opt/resmon directory: • • • • • • • • api.log registrar.log client.log emsagent.log api.log.old registrar.log.old client.log.old emsagent.log.old An additional 2 MB disk space is required for reslog.
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Table 1-3 EMS Product Filesets (continued) Fileset Description EMS-Config.EMS-GUI Provides SAM’s interface to EMS. This fileset also provides the emscli command line utility. Refer to the emscli(1m) manpage for more information. EMS-Config.EMS-GUI-COM Provides SAM’s interface to EMS, and contains EMS GUI help files. EMS-MIBMon Provides MIB (Management Information Base) monitors for cluster, networking interface, and system resources.
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from the HP Software Depot web site at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/ try.do?productNumber=EventMonitoring. Such fixes will be included in the EMS product on the AR/OEUR media at a minimum of once each year. In the support mode the following is applicable: • No new EMS Monitors will be developed. Customers are encouraged to develop WBEM provider based monitors using the SysFaultMgmt framework rather than developing EMS monitors.
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NOTE: To use the new library which contains the fix for the defect QXCR1000794678, after installing the EMS depot, you must kill the kcmond daemon, if the daemon is running. To kill the kcmond daemon, first, obtain the pid (process ID) of kcmond by using the ps -ef | grep kcmond command. Then, use the kill -9 command to kill the kcmond daemon. The daemon will restart automatically. In the EMS A.04.20.31.