High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20 Release Notes

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• 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. The EMS framework (through either the EMS GUI or through

MC/ServiceGuard) shows you a list of all the conﬁgured monitoring

requests. To add a monitoring request, navigate through the list of

discovered and available resources.

Using either the MC/ServiceGuard or the EMS GUI you can conﬁgure

more than one request for each HA Monitor. For example, you may want

to send notiﬁcation to syslog at one value and also send an email

message, perhaps at a different value.

All HA Monitors can be used with enterprise system management

software such as HP OpenView.

To use HA Monitors using the EMS GUI:

• Logon the system as root and run sam to open the HP-UX System

Administration Manager. In SAM, double-click the icon to open

Resource Management, then double-click the icon to start EMS.

• Through the EMS GUI conﬁgure a monitoring request to warn you

before a failure. This warning gives you time to take action to prevent

application downtime.

To use HA Monitors using the MC/ServiceGuard or ServiceGuard OPS

Edition:

• Logon the system as root and run sam. In SAM, double-click the icons

to open Volume Groups (/vg) or Databases (/rdbms).

• Through MC/ServiceGuard or ServiceGuard OPS Edition you can, for

example, conﬁgure an HA Monitor’s resource as part of a package

dependency. If the resource fails, MC/ServiceGuard may restart the

package on the local system or an alternate system.