High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v2 Manufacturing Part Number: B5736-90043 E0803 United States © Copyright 2003 © Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. All rights reserved.
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High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Announcement Announcement High Availability Monitors (B5736DA) A.04.00.01 is being released for use on the Itanium-2 based platform with the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system. The following high availability monitors are included in this bundle: • HA Disk Monitor checks the status of LVM managed disks and detects disconnected buses, power-failed or missing disks, and stale or missing mirrors.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes What’s in This Version What’s in This Version The A.04.00.01 version of High Availability Monitors for HP-UX 11i v2 operating system runs on the Itanium 2-based platform. HA Monitors contains a suite of monitors. Among them, MIB Monitor is used for monitoring the availability of LAN interface. In HP-UX 11i v2, with introduction of IPv6, there are new interface monitoring MIBs.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes What’s in This Version All HA Monitors can be used with enterprise system management software such as HP OpenView. To work with HA Monitors using the EMS GUI: • Log on to the system as root and enter sam to open SAM. In SAM, double-click on the Resource Management icon, and then double-click on the Event Monitoring Service icon to invoke EMS. • Use the EMS GUI to configure a monitoring request to warn you before a system failure.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes What’s in This Version Further Information Documents are found at http://docs.hp.com. Click HP-UX for operating system information. Click High Availability for information about Event Monitoring Service, HA Monitors, MC/ServiceGuard and ServiceGuard Extension for RAC (formerly known as ServiceGuard OPS Edition) A.11.15.00. Support information is available from the Hewlett-Packard Electronic Support Center: http://www.itrc.hp.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds The following are known problems with the HA Monitors product: JAGae75287: diskmond reports an error when vgchange is working at the same time What is the problem? diskmond might report "DOWN" status for the resource lv_summary without encountering any LVM or disk failure.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Only Oracle database monitored when both Oracle and Informix databases installed on same system • What is the problem? Both Oracle and Informix have their own RDBMS MIB subagents, and each has its own proprietary method of instrumenting the MIB. The HA Database Monitor relies on values in the MIB to monitor the databases and database servers.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Resource instance /rdbms/server/peak_connects/ is invalid • What is the problem? peak_connects represents the greatest number of simultaneous connections to the database server since the server started. It is currently is not being incremented. • What is the workaround? Monitor a different resource.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements The HA Monitors software should be installed on each node that you want to monitor. If you want to monitor the management station, then HA Monitors should be installed on the management station also. Compatibility with HP-UX Releases HA Monitors version A.04.00.01 runs on the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system only.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Requirements for Database Monitor Users: The Database Monitor is supported for the Oracle Enterprise Server version 9.2 and Informix version 9.3. Before you begin to monitor your database services, you must install the following components: • For Oracle: — Oracle Net8 (for networking) — Oracle Intelligent Agent (for SNMP support) and any patches.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • Hewlett-Packard Disk Array with AutoRAID, Models 12 and 12H • EMC Symmetrix arrays for both Fibre Channel and SCSI disks • Hewlett-Packard High Availability Storage System • Single-spindle SCSI disks • HP High Availability Disk Array, Model 30 Fibre Channel • HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256 for Fibre Channel and SCSI • HP SureStore E Disk System, models FC10 and FC60.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy Versions of EMS are provided as releases and patches. EMS patch will contain 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. For a new release of EMS and EMS HA Monitors, the following is guaranteed: • Full release testing is performed prior to release.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes EMS and EMS HA Monitors Patch Strategy Table 1-1 EMS and EMS HA Monitors Compatibility with HP-UX Releases EMS and HA Monitors Release Chapter 1 Support Status Compatible 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 Current Release 11i v1 (B.11.11) A.03.40 Current Release 11i v1.6 (B.11.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Patches and Fixes in This Version Required and Recommended Patches The contents of HA Monitors A.03.20.01 and A.03.40 has been incorporated into A.04.00.01 release.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version Resolution: Now, the UNAVAIL status is a valid status recognized by the service monitor. JAGae05308 Problem: When adding monitoring events using EMS GUI, the following error message is displayed: "The selected monitor is not currently available" This usually happens when the event added is the first event. The second attempt to add the event is generally successful.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in This Version JAGad51995 Problem: Persistent monitoring requests for diskmond are deleted by EMS. After system boot or restart of EMS (specifically: restart of p_client and diskmond), persistent monitoring requests for diskmond may be deleted by EMS. Resolution: For disk monitors that are being initialized, registrar now sends RM_NOT_READY signal to the client.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages HA Monitors version A.04.00.01 does not provide native language support.
High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes List of Documents available with the Product List of Documents available with the Product The following document is available with the HA Monitors version A.04.00.01: • Using High Availability Monitors manual This document is available on http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha/index.html.
