Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.11.03, A.04.20.23.03, and A.04.20.31.03 Release Notes (September 2008)

Developer’s Kit page. Instructions are provided with the templates. To download the
templates, click the Receive for Free button at the top or the bottom of the page. Select
HP-UX 11.23 version A.04.20 when you select the product Specifications.
For more information about EMS Future Strategy, see the 05/08 Event Monitoring Service (EMS)
Release Support Model news update available at http://www.hp.com/softwarereleases/
releases-media2/proginfo/EMS_Future_Direction_0408.pdf
Fixes in this Version
The following defects are fixed in this release:
• QXCR1000839941 - The EMS API rm_query_resource fails when running in a loop after
65535 iterations. This occurred due to a problem in the way request IDs are generated for
requests received by EMS. The request ID of a monitoring request is a 32 bit number. The
current PID of the monitor forms the first 16 bits and the other 16 bits denote a decimal serial
number. The decimal number loops from 0 to 65535 and then wraps around. If a persistent
request is registered with a monitor and in the same lifetime of the monitor the number of
non-persistent requests wraps around the 65535 mark there is a possibility that two requests
would have same ID. This causes the notifications from the second request to be directed
to the target defined by the first request. The RM_QUERY_RESOURCE() API would time out
waiting for a notification and return TIMEOUT error. This would continue until the monitor
was killed and restarted.
This problem is resolved to ensure that no two requests have the same ID, and if all the IDs
are used up, EMS rejects new requests.
Software Availability in Native Languages
EMS does not provide native language support. However, separate native language versions of
documentation are available as part of bundle EventMonitoring with the following options:
• ABA: American English
• ABJ: Japanese
List of Documents available with the Product
The following documents are available with EMS:
• Event Monitoring Service Release Notes
• Using the Event Monitoring Service manual
These documents are available on the HP Technical Documentation web site at http://
docs.hp.com/en/ha.html.
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