High Availability Monitors Version A.03.
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High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Announcements 1 High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Announcements Version A.03.20 of High Availability Monitors (B5736CA and B5736DA) includes media, license, and manual. Version A.03.20 runs on HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0. The following high availability monitors are included in this bundle: • HA Database Monitor checks the status of Oracle 8 databases and Informix 7 and their application servers.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Announcements • The EMS framework queries monitors, accepts status messages, interprets them according to your configured monitoring requests, and sends notification when and where you request. Define monitoring requests through either the EMS GUI or with high availability software such as MC/ServiceGuard and ServiceGuard OPS Edition.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes What’s New in this Version What’s New in this Version The A.03.20 version of High Availability Monitors is a minor release. The contents of HA Monitors releases A.03.00 through A.03.10 have been incorporated, including the A.03.10 patch line. HA Monitors A.03.20 supports the same configuration as previous releases. In Version A.03.20, EMS added a new state to the package monitor: UNAVAIL.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements HA Monitors should be installed on each node that you want to monitor. It does not need to be installed on the management station, unless you want to also monitor the management station itself. Compatibility with HP-UX Releases HA Monitors Version A.03.20 runs on HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0. Software Requirements HA Monitors A.03.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements configuring MC/ServiceGuard to use this feature. (You can see, or print, the Release Notes at: http://www.docs.hp.com -> High Availability.) Requirements for HP OpenView Users: Configure templates into HP OpenView ITO or NNM to see the status of HA Monitors. To configure, download the latest templates from the http://software.hp.com web site.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Requirements for HA Disk Monitor Users: There are two cases where the HA Disk Monitor has software requirements: • NIO Bus: To use the HA 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.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • HP SureStore E Disk System, models FC10 and FC60 The disk monitor does not support HP-IB or HP-FL disks. Disk Space and Memory Requirements The High Availability Monitors product requires 4.45 Mb of disk space to install, and a minimum of 32 Mb of RAM to execute.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Patches and Fixes in this Version This section describes patches that are required and defects that have been fixed in version A.03.20 of H. A. Monitors. Required and Recommended Patches No patches are required for HA Monitors Version A.03.20 itself. However, the following patches (or their supersedents) are recommended for EMS and HA Monitors dependencies. This list is subject to change without notice.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Agent product (Oracle SNMP), and specifically any patches pertaining to master_peer (Oracle SNMP master agent) and to start_peer. Fixes and Changes Table 1-2 lists patches that have been rolled into HA Monitors A.03.20, and no longer need to be applied separately. Table 1-2 Patch Number Date HP-UX Description PHSS_21299 000430 10.20 s700-800 EMS A.03.00 and HA Montors A.03.00 Patch PHSS_21301 000430 10.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Table 1-3 Corrected Defects Defect number Problem and Resolution JAGab82383 When a disk resource is a ServiceGuard dependency, the package may fail over to an alternate node if the user tries to add or remove volumes from a VG while the package is running. Also, the syslog file hsa errors like this one: libsgcl.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Table 1-3 Corrected Defects Defect number Problem and Resolution JAGac39442 When adding new physical volumes (PVs) to a volume group (VG), the ServiceGuard that is monitoring the PV summary gets halted (it fails over) In order for PV summary to be monitored, there must be equal numbers of physical volumes in each physical volume group (PVG).
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds The following are known problems with the HA Monitors product or with Event Monitoring Service: JAGab04570: Delay in changing resource state What is the problem? When SNMP connectivity to dbsnmp (Oracle SNMP) fails, EMS correctly reports that there are “no instances” of the /rdbms/server/status resource.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds notifications for monitors with active persistent requests can be lost. This can happen for up to two minutes from the update. This cannot happen with a new install; only an update. What is the workaround? Before updating, find out which monitors are active. Enter the ps -ef |grep resmon command. In the table below, check any of the monitors listed in the output. Now, update the software.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds following in the swinstall logfile, /var/adm/sw/swagent.log: ERROR A later revision (one with a higher revision number) of fileset EMS-Core.EMS-CORE,r=A.03.20 has already been installed. Either remove this fileset or change the allow_downdate option to true.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Summary of Analysis Phase: ERROR Skipped (in analysis) EMS-Config.EMS-GUI, r=A.03.10 ERROR Skipped (in analysis) EMS-Core.EMS-ORE, r=A.03.10 ERROR 2 of 5 filesets had Errors. 3 of 5 filesets had no Errors or Warnings: ERROR NOTE The Execution Phase had errors. See the above output for details. Do not use the -x enforce_dependencies=false option under normal circumstances.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds started. Only Oracle database monitored when both Oracle and Informix databases installed on same system • What is the problem? Both Oracle and Informix have their own RDMS MIB subagents, and each has its own proprietary method of instrumenting the MIB. The HA Database Monitor relies on values in the MIB to monitor the databases and database servers.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Known Problems and Workarounds for Informix Installations Resource instance /rdbms/server/uptime is always -l • What is the problem? The uptime resource should be equal to the number of seconds that the database server has been up. For Informix, the uptime value is always -1, which indicates that this value cannot be calculated. • What is the workaround? Monitor a different resource for changes.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages B5736 DA #ABJ has documents in Japanese The HA Monitors manual, Using High Availability Monitors, is available in American English (B5736-90025) and in Japanese (B5736-90026). • HA Monitors depends on, and includes, the interface provided by Event Monitoring Service (EMS), product number B7609BA.
