High Availability Monitors Version A.03.20.01 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i

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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. The EMS framework (either through the EMS GUI or

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

monitoring requests. To add a monitoring request, you 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 at another value.

All HA Monitors can be used with enterprise system management

software such as HP OpenView.

To use HA Monitors using the EMS GUI:

• Log on to the system as root and enter sam to open the HP-UX System

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

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

• Use the EMS GUI to 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:

• Log on to the system as root and enter sam. In SAM, double-click the

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

• Through MC/ServiceGuard or ServiceGuard OPS Edition you can

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.