High Availability Monitors Version A.03.00.01 Release Notes

Chapter 1 9

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

Download the latest templates from the http://software.hp.com web site.

Click High Availability, then Event Monitoring Service Depelopers’ Kit.

The templates are in a list near the bottom of the Developers’ Kit page.

Requirements for Disk Monitor Users:

There are two cases where the Disk Monitor has software requirements:

• NIO Bus: To use the Disk Monitor with disks connected by an NIO

bus, you must conﬁgure the SCSI pass-thru driver, spt0, into the

kernel.

— For HP-UX 10.20, install patch PHKL_13044 to add SCSI

pass-thru driver support. Add spt0 to the /stand/system ﬁle,

rebuild the kernel, and reboot.

— For HP-UX 11.0, add spt0 to the /stand/system ﬁle, rebuild the

kernel, and reboot. (The SCSI passthru driver is already part of

the 11.0 operating system.)

• Fibre Channel: To use the Disk Monitor with disks connected by ﬁbre

channel, you must already have the SCSI passthru driver installed,

as described in NIO Bus, above. Then, follow the directions below:

— For HP-UX 10.20, install Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver

product J3630BA, and any recommended patches.

— For HP-UX 11.0, install patch PHSS_14652, or the patch that

supersedes it, to get the latest ﬁbre channel driver.

You may see a NOTE in your swinstall log if you do not have spt0 as

part of your kernel. The note is information only, and does not mean that

there is a problem in the installation.

Hardware Requirements

HA Monitors run on the HP 9000 series 800 servers.

The disk monitor supports SCSI SE (single-ended) and F/W (fast/wide)

disks, including:

• Hewlett-Packard High Availability Disk Array, Models 10 and 20

• Hewlett-Packard Disk Array with AutoRAID, Models 12 and 12H

• EMC Symmetrix arrays for both ﬁbre channel and SCSI disks

• Hewlett-Packard High Availability Storage System