Writing Monitors for the Event Monitoring Service (December 1999)

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Understanding the Event Monitoring Service

EMS Requirements

The following are system requirements for the Event Monitoring Service:

• All hardware you intend to monitor, such as disks and LAN cards,

have been conﬁgured and tested prior to conﬁguring EMS.

• EMS must be installed on an HP 9000 Series 700 or Series 800

system running HP-UX version 10.20 or later.

When installing one or more EMS components, check that the version

levels for the other components are compatible. Refer to the recent

Release Notes for each component, such as EMS, HA Monitors, or

ServiceGuard.

1. Go to the web site:

http://docs.hp.com.

2. From the web site select HP-UX, then High Availability, then

scroll to identify and select the latest Release Notes for each

component.