High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.
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High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i 1 High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Announcements Announcements Version A.03.20.01 of High Availability Monitors (B5736DA) includes media, license, and manual. Version A.03.20.01 runs on HP-UX 11i. 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.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i 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.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i What’s New in this Version What’s New in this Version The A.03.20.01 Version of High Availability Monitors is a minor release, for HP-UX 11i. It runs on HP-UX, Version 11i B.11.11 or later. What Manuals are Available for This Version The following manuals are shipped with the High Availability Monitors A.03.20.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements The HA Monitors software 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.03.20.01 runs on HP-UX 11i only.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements 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. Click High Availability, then Event Monitoring Service Developers’ Kit. The templates are in a list near the bottom of the Developers’ Kit page.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements To use the HA Disk Monitor with disks connected by an NIO bus or by Fibre Channel, you must configure the SCSI pass-thru driver, spt0, into the kernel. Add spt0 to the /stand/system file, rebuild the kernel, and reboot. Hardware Requirements High Availability Monitors run on the HP 9000 series 800 servers.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Information Base) monitors for cluster, networking interface, and system resources. • EMS-DiskMonitor.DISKMON-RUN — Disk monitor for physical and logical volume resources configured by LVM. • EMS-RdbmsMon.RDBMSMON-RUN — Database monitor for MIB resources.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i 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.03.20.01 of H. A. Monitors. Required and Recommended Patches No patches are required for HA Monitors Version A.03.20.01.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i 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.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i 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 output, check any of the monitors listed in the table below. Now, update the software.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Known Problems and Workarounds • What is the workaround? Before you try to monitor these particular resources, be sure the database is available and its server has been 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.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Known Problems and Workarounds 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.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages • The HA Monitors product is available with documentation in American English or Japanese. (The interface of HA Monitors is available only in American English.) — B5736 DA HA Monitors for HP-UX 11.11.
