NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide (H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Guide
- 1 Introduction to Integrity NonStop NSSeries Operations
- When to Use This Section
- Understanding the Operational Environment
- What Are the Operator Tasks?
- Monitoring the System and Performing Recovery Operations
- Preparing for and Recovering from Power Failures
- Stopping and Powering Off theSystem
- Powering On and Starting the System
- Creating Startup and Shutdown Files
- Performing Preventive Maintenance
- Operating Disk Drives and Tape Drives
- Responding to Spooler Problems
- Updating Firmware
- Determining the Cause of a Problem: A Systematic Approach
- Logging On to an Integrity NonStop Server
- Service Procedures
- 2 Determining Your System Configuration
- 3 Overview of Monitoring and Recovery
- 4 Monitoring EMS Event Messages
- 5 Processes: Monitoring and Recovery
- 6 Communications Subsystems: Monitoring and Recovery
- 7 ServerNet Resources: Monitoring and Recovery
- 8 I/O Adapters and Modules: Monitoring and Recovery
- 9 Processors and Components: Monitoring and Recovery
- When to Use This Section
- Overview of the NonStop Blade Complex
- Monitoring and Maintaining Processors
- Identifying Processor Problems
- Recovery Operations for Processors
- Recovery Operations for a Processor Halt
- Halting One or More Processors
- Reloading a Single Processor on a Running Server
- Recovery Operations for a System Hang
- Enabling/Disabling Processor and System Freeze
- Freezing the System and Freeze-Enabled Processors
- Dumping a Processor to Disk
- Backing Up a Processor Dump to Tape
- Replacing Processor Memory
- Replacing the Processor Board and Processor Entity
- Submitting Information to Your Service Provider
- Related Reading
- 10 Disk Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
- 11 Tape Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
- 12 Printers and Terminals: Monitoring and Recovery
- 13 Applications: Monitoring and Recovery
- 14 Power Failures: Preparation and Recovery
- 15 Starting and Stopping the System
- When to Use This Section
- Powering On a System
- Starting a System
- Minimizing the Frequency of Planned Outages
- Stopping Application, Devices, and Processes
- Stopping the System
- Powering Off a System
- Troubleshooting and Recovery Operations
- Fans Are Not Turning
- System Does Not Appear to Be Powered On
- Green LED Is Not Lit After POSTs Finish
- Amber LED on a Component Remains Lit After the POST Finishes
- Components Fail When Testing the Power
- Recovering From a System Load Failure
- Getting a Corrupt System Configuration File Analyzed
- Recovering From a Reload Failure
- Exiting the OSM Low-Level Link
- Opening Startup Event Stream and Startup TACL Windows
- Related Reading
- 16 Creating Startup and Shutdown Files
- Automating System Startup and Shutdown
- Processes That Represent the System Console
- Example Command Files
- CIIN File
- Writing Efficient Startup and Shutdown Command Files
- How Process Persistence Affects Configuration and Startup
- Tips for Startup Files
- Startup File Examples
- Tips for Shutdown Files
- Shutdown File Examples
- 17 Preventive Maintenance
- A Operational Differences Between Systems Running GSeries and HSeries RVUs
- B Tools and Utilities for Operations
- When to Use This Appendix
- BACKCOPY
- BACKUP
- Disk Compression Program (DCOM)
- Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP)
- EMSDIST
- Event Management Service Analyzer (EMSA)
- File Utility Program (FUP)
- Measure
- MEDIACOM
- NonStop NET/MASTER
- NSKCOM and the Kernel-Managed Swap Facility (KMSF)
- OSM Package
- PATHCOM
- PEEK
- RESTORE
- SPOOLCOM
- Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
- HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
- TMFCOM
- Web ViewPoint
- ViewPoint
- ViewSys
- C Related Reading
- D Converting Numbers
- Safety and Compliance
- Index
Monitoring EMS Event Messages
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OSM Event Viewer
OSM Event Viewer
The OSM Event Viewer is a browser-based event viewer. The OSM Event Viewer
allows you to retrieve and view events from any EMS formatted log files ($0, $ZLOG,
or an alternate collector) for rapid assessment of operating system problems.
To access the OSM Event Viewer, refer to Launching OSM Applications on page 1-12.
For details on how to use the OSM Event Viewer, refer to the online help.
EMSDIST
The EMSDIST program is the object program for a printing, forwarding, or consumer
distributor, any of which you can start with a TACL RUN command. This guide does
not describe using EMSDIST. For more information, see the Guardian User’s Guide.
ViewPoint
ViewPoint displays event messages about current or past events occurring anywhere
in the network on a set of block-mode events screens. The messages can be errors,
failures, warnings, and requests for operator actions. The events screens allow
operators to monitor significant occurrences or problems in the network as they occur.
Critical events or events requiring immediate action are highlighted.
Web ViewPoint
Web ViewPoint, a browser-based product, accesses the Event Viewer, Object
Manager, and Performance Monitor subsystems. Web ViewPoint monitors and
displays EMS events; identifies and lists all supported subsystems; manages NonStop
server subsystems and user applications in a secure, automated, and customizable
way; monitors and graphs performance attributes and trends; investigates and displays
most active system processes; and offers simple navigation and a point-and-click
command interface.
Related Reading
For more information about monitoring EMS event messages, see the documentation
in Table 4-1.
Table 4-1. Related Reading for Monitoring EMS Event Messages
Task Tool For information, see...
Viewing event logs EMSDIST Guardian User’s Guide
ViewPoint ViewPoint Manual
OSM Event
Viewer
OSM Event Viewer online help