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Running Event Monitoring Service

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Running Event Monitoring Service

The Event Monitoring Service performs hardware monitoring. Hardware monitoring is

the process of watching a hardware resource (such as a disk) for the occurrence of any

unusual activity, called an event. When an event occurs, it is reported using a variety of

notiﬁcation methods (such as e-mail). Event detection and notiﬁcation are all handled

automatically with minimal involvement on your part.

The Event Monitoring Service is designed to provide a high level of protection against

system hardware failure with minimal impact on system performance. By using

hardware monitoring, you can virtually eliminate undetected hardware failures that

could interrupt system operation or cause data loss.

The following are the steps involved in installing and conﬁguring hardware monitoring.

For a detailed explanation, see the EMS Hardware Monitors User’s Guide located at this

URL:

http://docs.hp.com//hpux/diag/

Here are the steps for installing and conﬁguring the hardware monitor:

1. Install the Support Tools from the most current copy of Support Plus Media you can

ﬁnd. You can also download this package over the Web. To learn how to download

this package over the web, see the EMS Hardware Monitors User’s Guide. Note that

this step is only necessary for HP-UX 10.20 or 11.x. With HP-UX 11i, the Support

Tools are automatically installed when the OS is installed.

2. Examine the list of supported products to see if any of your devices have special

requirements in order to be monitored. For example, if monitoring FC-AL hubs, edit

the ﬁle:

/var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_fc_hub

3. Enable hardware event monitoring. This step is only necessary if you have a release

of the Diagnostic/IPR Media earlier than June 1999.

4. Determine whether default monitoring requests are adequate.

5. Add or modify monitoring requests as necessary.

6. Verify monitor operation, if desired (recommended but optional).