Event Monitoring Service Version A.03.10 Release Notes

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1 Event Monitoring Service

Version A.03.10 Release Notes

Announcements

Version A.03.10 of the Event Monitoring Service (B7609BA), includes

media, license and manual. Version A.03.10 runs on HP-UX 10.20 and

HP-UX 11.0. It is available for HP 9000/Series 700 and 800.

The Event Monitoring Service (EMS) together with one or more EMS

monitors is a tool you can use to monitor various system resources. The

EMS product includes the framework and general monitors. You can

conﬁgure EMS monitoring through monitoring requests which deﬁne

how and when you want to be notiﬁed about system resource events.

EMS enhances your high-availability environment by warning you

before a single point of failure can make an application unavailable.

Monitors that register with the EMS framework are automatically

discovered and displayed in the EMS interface. Monitors that use the

interface can place information in the interface button, View Resource

Description. All monitors come with EMS dictionary ﬁles that can be

found in /etc/opt/resmon/dictionary.

EMS contains the following:

• The framework: Provides discovery, conﬁguration, and notiﬁcation for

EMS monitors. Depending on themonitor, EMS may activelypoll or it

may wait for event messages. It compares the return value with the

threshold conﬁgured in the request. If it matches, the framework

sends notiﬁcation to the source speciﬁed, using the protocol speciﬁed.

• The graphic interface: You start the EMS interface from an icon in

SAM. Use the interface to create, modify, and remove monitoring

requests. You can also see a list of the available resources that EMS

has discovered on your system, and a list of all current conﬁgured

monitoring requests.

• resls and resdata EMS utilities.