High Availability Monitors Version A.03.
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1 High Availability Monitors Version A.03.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Announcements Announcements Version A.03.01 of High Availability Monitors (B5736BA), includes media, license, and manual. Version A.03.01 runs on HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0. The following high availability monitors are included in this bundle: • HA Cluster Monitor checks the status of MC/ServiceGuard and MC/LockManager clusters and detects failed clusters, nodes, or packages.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Announcements monitoring request, you can navigate through the list of discovered and available resources. You can configure more than one request for each HA monitor. For example, you may want it to send notification to syslog at one value, and to also send you an email message, perhaps at a different value. All HA monitors can be used with system management software such as HP OpenView.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes What’s in this Version What’s in this Version Version A.03.01 includes a new monitor, the HA Database Monitor, designed for Oracle 8 Databases and their application servers. The monitor supports multiple instances of Oracle databases.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Required Patches and Known Problems Required Patches and Known Problems Required Software Patches • The following patches (or their supersedents) are required. You must install these patches before you install HA Monitors. — PHKL_16751 (HP-UX 10.20) (981023) Cumulative patch for SCSI/SIG_IGN/SIGCLD/LVM, JFS, PCI. (Supersedes PHKL_16388, PHKL_16410) — PHKL_13044 (HP-UX 10.20) (981023) SCSI pass-through driver cumulative patch.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Required Patches and Known Problems Fixes race conditions in UP emulation. For HP-UX s700 and s800. — Before using the Database Monitor, be sure you have applied all patches recommended by Oracle, particularly for the Oracle Intelligent Agent product (Oracle SNMP), and specifically any patches pertaining to master_peer (Oracle SNMP master agent) and to start_peer.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds The following are known problems with the HA Monitors product or with Event Monitoring Service: opcmsg protocol • What is the problem? The opcmsg protocol for communicating with IT/Operations is supported for managed nodes running HP-UX 10.20 but it is not yet available in EMS on HP-UX 11.0. • What is the workaround? For HP-UX 11.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds server is a reliable indicator of the availability of its corresponding database. (You can also use /rdbms/server/status/ on systems where a single database is configured.) When a database is not available, an error message indicates that its resource instance is not available. • What is the problem? If a database is unavailable or its server is down, you may see this error message: Resource “/rdbms/...
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements The HA Monitors product should be installed on each node that you want to monitor. It does not need to be installed on the management station, unless you want to also monitor the management station itself. Compatibility with HP-UX Releases HA Monitors Version A.03.01 runs on HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.0.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements or NNM only) or similar products to see the status of HA monitors. Download the latest templates from the http://software.hp.com web site. Click High Availability, then Event Monitoring Service Developers’ Kit. The templates are in a list near the bottom of the Developers’ Kit page.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements — For HP-UX 10.20, install Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver product J3630BA, and any recommended patches. — For HP-UX 11.0, install patch PHSS_17199, or the patch that supersedes it, to get the latest fibre channel driver. You may see a NOTE in your swinstall log if you do not have spt0 as part of your kernel.
High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages The HA Monitors documentation, “Using HA Monitors,” is available in American English (B5736-90018) and in Japanese (B5736-90019). HA Monitors depends on, and includes, the interface provided by Event Monitoring Service (EMS) (B5609BA). The interface for EMS, Version A.03.00 and A.03.00.01, is available only in American English.
