High Availability Monitors Release Notes
The HA Monitors bundle (Part number B5736DA) contains the following file sets that will be
installed on Integrity platform and PA-RISC platform:
• EMS-MIBMon — The MIB (Management Information Base) monitors for cluster, networking
interface, and system resources
• EMS-DskMon — Disk monitor for physical and logical volume resources configured by
LVM
• EMS-DBMon — Database monitor for MIB resources
EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy
HA Monitors (B5736DA) and EMS Framework (EventMonitoring) are in support mode for all
releases of HP-UX 11i. There will be no patches for any release of HA Monitors. There will be
no new enhancements and features. Only defects with severity level above 8 or defects related
to security issues would be fixed.
As and when required HA Monitors will provide defect fixes via AR/OEUR media. In case of
critical defects in HA Monitors, that impair the system/dependent product functioning, the fix
will be made available via Web Release, which happens once every month. The fix will be made
available as an installable product upgrade and can be downloaded from the HP Software Depot
website at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/
try.do?productNumber=EventMonitoring. Such fixes will be included in the HA Monitors product
on the AR/OEUR media at a minimum of once each year.
In the support mode the following is applicable:
• No new EMS Monitors will be developed. Customers are encouraged to develop WBEM
provider based monitors using the SysFaultMgmt framework rather than developing EMS
monitors.
• Monitoring for new platforms will be accomplished through WBEM based monitoring only
using the SysFaultMgmt Product.
• EMS Developers Kit will no longer be shipped with HP-UX 11i v3.
For HP-UX 11i v3 you can download the latest templates from the HP Software Depot
website at http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot. In the main page of the Software Depot,
select High Availability under Product Category. In the High Availability page that opens,
select Event Monitoring Service (EMS) Developer's Kit. The templates are listed in the
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
This release does not include any defect fixes.
Documents with the Product
The following documents are available with HA Monitors:
• High Availability Monitors Release Notes
• Using High Availability Monitors user guide
These documents are available on the HP Technical Documentation website at http://
docs.hp.com/en/ha.html.
8 High Availability Monitors Version A.04.20.23.05 and A.04.20.31.06 Release Notes