High Availability Monitors Version A.03.01 Release Notes

4 Chapter1

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.

• HA Database Monitor checks the status of Oracle 8 databases and

their application servers.

• HA Disk Monitor checks the status of LVM managed disks and

detects disconnected busses, power-failed or missing disks, and stale

or missing mirrors. It provides summary status for both physical and

logical volumes in a volume group as well as individual status for

each disk, and logical volume.

• HA File System Monitor checks ﬁle system space

• HA Network Monitor reports the status of LAN interfaces.

• HA System Resource Monitor checks the status of users, and system

load.

The HA Monitors bundle depends on, and includes, the Event Monitoring

Services (EMS) (B7609BA). When you install HA Monitors, the install

process automatically picks up and installs EMS.

The Event Monitoring Service has two main parts:

• The EMS graphical interface runs under SAM and allows you to

create, modify, and remove monitoring requests. It also displays a list

of all current monitors and requests.

• The EMS framework queries monitors, accepts status messages,

interprets them according to your conﬁgured monitoring requests,

and sends notiﬁcation when and where you requested.

To conﬁgure a monitoring request, open EMS. First, logon as root and

type SAM to open the HP-UX System Administration Manager. In SAM,

double-click to open Resource Management, then open EMS. EMS shows

you a list of all the conﬁgured monitoring requests. If you want to add a