NonStop Operations Guide for H-Series and J-Series RVUs

HP Tools for Monitoring System Resources
A number of HP tools, several of them automated and GUI-based, are available from which you
can view, and in some cases manage, the status of NonStop hardware resources. They include:
• “Using HP SIM” (page 55)
• “Using the HP SIM Plug-Ins” (page 57)
• “Using the OSM Service Connection” (page 59)
• “Using SCF” (page 60))
• “Using Onboard Administrator” (page 63)
See the chapter “Monitoring the Performance of NonStop Subsystems” (page 71) for a description
of the HP tools used to monitor the performance of NonStop subsystems.
What the HP Tools Monitor
The HP manageability tools:
• View alarms for the resources in the system. Look for alarm icons and red and yellow triangle
icons.
• View the attributes of a selected resource in the system. If you suspect that a resource is having
problems, you can check the resources to identify information such as the name of the resource,
type of resource, and the state of the resource.
• If needed, configure the system console to provide dial-out problem information to a service
provider or allow a service provider or an authorized customer to dial-in to your server.
• Check for incident reports. For example, the OSM server generates problem incident reports
when critical changes occur to a system resource. Problem incident reports are visible in EMS
events and HP Instant Remote Support Advanced. See “Monitoring Problem Incident Reports”
(page 59).
• Use the manageability tools that monitor NonStop performance.
• Check for event messages. For example, HP SIM and the OSM Event Viewer display events
from event log files.
• Check the internal X and Y fabrics to examine the system’s connections between its groups.
• Check for logged status or error messages generated by the HP manageability tool.
Monitored NonStop Hardware Resources
Table 8 (page 53) identifies NonStop system hardware resources that are monitored and the HP
tools that monitor them.
NOTE: The OSM Service Connection sends alarm information to HP SIM, allowing HP SIM to
display overall system health as well as specific alarms (“alerts” in HP SIM) for affected system
resources. Thus, for every system resource in Table 8 (page 53) that lists the OSM Service
Connection as a monitoring tool, HP SIM also provides a level of monitoring and notification for
those resources. The OSM Service Connection remains the necessary tool for serviceability actions
as well as detailed attribute information for those resources. For the system resources in which HP
SIM is listed as the monitoring tool, those resources can only be monitored by HP SIM and not the
OSM Service Connection.
For a complete and detailed summary and descriptions of all the NonStop system and cluster
resources monitored and managed by the OSM Service Connection, including their attributes and
the actions that can be performed from the OSM Service Connection, see the OSM Service
Connection User’s Guide.
52 Overview of Monitoring and Recovery