Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v2 June 2007 Manufacturing Part Number: B7609-90047 June 2007 © Copyright 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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1 Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Announcement Announcement Event Monitoring Service (EMS) A.04.20.23 is being released for use on the Integrity and PA-RISC platforms with the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system. You can use EMS together with one or more EMS monitors to monitor various system resources. The EMS product includes the framework and general monitors. You can configure EMS to monitor system resources through monitoring requests.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Product Overview Product Overview Event Monitoring Service (EMS) is a framework for monitoring system resources which includes configuring, checking resource status, and sending notifications when configured conditions are fulfiled. EMS contains the following components: • EMS Framework - The EMS framework provides discovery, configuration, and notification for EMS monitors.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Product Overview NOTE If you require the EMS MIB definitions to handle EMS SNMP trap notifications, you can obtain it as part of the EMS Developer’s Kit available from http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot. EMS templates for HP OpenView ITO/ITO-SE, and EMS SNMP trap templates for HP OpenView NNM are also part of the EMS Developer’s Kit. NOTE Textlog notification requests must specify a file in the /var/opt/resmon/log directory.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes What’s in This Version What’s in This Version The following changes have been made in this version: • EMS is enhanced to send WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management) indication. The WBEM indications are in addition to the notifications that EMS already supports. You can view the WBEM indications by using Event Viewer in the HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH). EMS has a provider that allows you to set up EMS for WBEM Notifications.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds There are no known problems with the Event Monitoring Service version A.04.20.23.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements EMS must be installed on each node that you want to monitor. If you want to monitor the management station, then EMS must be installed on the management station also.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility with HP-UX Releases Table 1-1 EMS Hardware and HP-UX Compatibility EMS Version Compatible HP-UX Releases Compatible Hardware EMS A.02.00 HP-UX 11.00 HP 9000 Servers EMS A.03.00, HP-UX 11.00 HP 9000 Servers EMS A.03.20.01 HP-UX 11i v1 HP 9000 Servers EMS A.03.40 HP-UX 11i v1.6 HP Integrity Server EMS A.04.00 HP-UX 11i v1 HP 9000 Servers EMS A.04.00.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements If you are a licensed Serviceguard customer using EMS to configure resources as package dependencies, you must have the correct version of Serviceguard installed. Table 1-2 EMS Serviceguard Compatibility EMS Version A.02.00 A.03.00, A.03.00.01, A.03.10, and A.03.20 HP-UX Release Serviceguard Version HP-UX 11.00 MC/ServiceGuard A.11.01, A.11.03 HP-UX 11.00 MC/LockManager A.11.01, A.11.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 EMS Serviceguard Compatibility (Continued) EMS Version A.04.00 HP-UX Release HP-UX 11i v1 Serviceguard Version Serviceguard A.11.15.00 Serviceguard Extension for RAC (formerly known as Serviceguard OPS Edition) A.11.15.00 A.04.00.01 HP-UX 11i v2 Serviceguard A.11.15.00 Serviceguard Extension for RAC (formerly known as Serviceguard OPS Edition) A.11.15.00 A.04.00.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 EMS Serviceguard Compatibility (Continued) EMS Version A.04.11 A.04.20 HP-UX Release Serviceguard Version HP-UX 11i v2 (includes revisions for HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 update) Serviceguard A.11.16.00 HP-UX 11i v2 Serviceguard A.11.16.00 Serviceguard Extension for RAC (formerly known as Serviceguard OPS Edition) A.11.16.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 EMS Serviceguard Compatibility (Continued) EMS Version A.04.20.23 HP-UX Release HP-UX 11i v2 Serviceguard Version Serviceguard A.11.18.00 Serviceguard Extension for RAC (formerly known as Serviceguard OPS Edition) A.11.18.00 Requirements for HP OpenView Users: You must configure templates in HP OpenView ITO or NNM applications to view EMS events.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • emsagent.log.old An additional 2 MB disk space is required for reslog.html, and reslog.old.html for archiving monitor data. Apart from 6 MB monitor disk space, you may have to reserve additional disk space for EMS monitors logging. The WBEM provider which is shipped with EMS requires an additional disk space of upto 5 MB.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-3 EMS Product Filesets (Continued) Fileset Description EMS-Core.EMS-WRAPPER Contains EMSHAWrapperProvider. EMS-Core.EMS-WRAPPER-COM Contains xml schema and mof files for EMSHAWrapperProvider. EMS-Config.EMS-GUI Provides SAM’s interface to EMS. This fileset also provides the emscli command line utility. Refer to the emscli(1m) manpage for more information. EMS-Config.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Removing EMS You have to use the swremove utility or the Software Management tools in SAM to remove EMS. Note that the monitors are persistent; that is, they are always automatically started if they are stopped. Therefore, the following warning message may be created in your log file: Could not shut down process.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy EMS is provided through releases and patches. EMS patch will contain High Availability (HA) Monitors patch as well. EMS uses PHSS_ prefix for patches. A new release contains new EMS and EMS HA Monitors features as well as fixes for known problems.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy Table 1-4 EMS / HA Monitors Release EMS and EMS HA Monitors Compatibility with HP-UX Releases Support Status HP-UX Release Compatibility A.03.00.xx No longer patched 11.00 A.03.01 No longer patched 11.00 A.03.02 No longer patched 11.00 A.03.10 No longer patched 11.00 A.03.20 Current Release 11.00 A.03.20.01 No longer patched 11i v1 (B.11.11) A.04.00 No longer patched 11i v1 (B.11.11) A.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy Table 1-4 EMS / HA Monitors Release EMS and EMS HA Monitors Compatibility with HP-UX Releases Support Status HP-UX Release Compatibility A.04.20.11 Current Release 11i v1 A.04.20 Current Release 11i v3 A.04.20.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Patches and Fixes in this Version Fixes and Changes In addition to 11i v2 A.04.20.23 update, defects are fixed in this release.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages EMS version A.04.20.23 does not provide native language support.
Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.23 Release Notes List of Documents available with the Product List of Documents available with the Product The following documents are available with EMS version A.04.20.23: • Event Monitoring Service Release Notes • Using the Event Monitoring Service manual These documents are available on http://docs.hp.com/en/ha.html.
