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

Chapter 1 9

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.

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

• Single-spindle SCSI disks

• HP High Availability Disk Array, Model 30 Fibre Channel

• HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256 for Fibre Channel and SCSI

• 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.

Installing High Availability Monitors

The High Availability Monitors product can be installed on a running

system in multi-user mode.

Use the software management tools in SAM or the swinstall command

to install HA Monitors. For details see Using High Availability Monitors

(HP Part Number B5736-90025).

The HA Monitors Version A.03.20.01 bundle (Part number B5736DA)

contains the following ﬁle sets:

• EMS-MIBMonitor.MIBMON-RUN — the MIB (Management