High Availability Monitors Version A.04.20 Release Notes (December 2005)

High Availability Monitors Version A.04.20 Release Notes

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

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Requirements for Database Monitor Users:

The Database Monitor is supported for the Oracle Enterprise Server version 9.2 and Informix

version 9.3. Before you begin to monitor your database services, you must install the following

components:

• For Oracle:

— Oracle Net9 (for networking)

— Oracle Intelligent Agent (for SNMP support) and any patches.

The HA Database Monitor depends on Oracle Net8 TCP/IP protocol adapter, the Oracle

Intelligent Agent, the Oracle SNMP Master Agent (master_peer and start_peer), the

Oracle database subagent (dbsnmp), the Oracle Listener (tnslsnr), and the values in the

public RDBMS MIB (based on RFC 1697). For more information, please consult the Oracle

8 Enterprise Server documentation, particularly Oracle 8 Installation Guide, Oracle

SNMP Support Reference, and Oracle Net8 Administrator’s Guide.

• For Informix:

— Informix SNMP subagent

The Informix SNMP subagent, onsnmp, can be started by issuing the following

command:

$INFORMIXDIR/bin/onsrvapd -k0 -rall

This command causes the SNMP subagent to remain in UP state even though the

Informix database may be stopped and restarted. The subagent must be active in

order to be able to access the values in the rdbms public MIB, on which the HA

Database Monitor reports.

Requirements for HA Disk Monitor Users:

To use the HA Disk Monitor with disks connected by FibreChannel, 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

HA Monitors version A.04.20 runs on PA-RISC and HP Itanium 2-based platform servers

running HP-UX 11i v2.

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