High Availability Monitors Version A.04.00.01 Release Notes

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

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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.

Software Requirements

HA Monitors version A.04.00.01 is dependent on Event Monitoring Service, version

A.04.00.01 or later. When you order the HA Monitors product, EMS software and

documentation is automatically included.

Note: EMS is also included with other monitoring products. If you should install one of these

monitors later, your present EMS software may be replaced with a later version.

Documentation for all versions of EMS is on the http://www.docs.hp.com/ha web site.

Requirements for MC/ServiceGuard and ServiceGuard Extension for RAC users:

When you have MC/ServiceGuard installed and want HA Monitors to be part of a package,

specify the monitor as a package resource dependency when you conﬁgure the package.

The following versions of MC/ServiceGuard are compatible with version A.04.00.01 of HA

Monitors.

• HP-UX 11i v2, MC/ServiceGuard version A.11.15.00

• HP-UX 11i v2 , ServiceGuard Extension for RAC version A.11.15.00.

Requirements for HP OpenView Users:

You should conﬁgure templates into HP OpenView ITO or NNM to view the status of HA

Monitors. To conﬁgure, download the latest templates from the http://software.hp.com

web site. Click High Availability, then Event Monitoring Service Developers’ Kit.

The templates are listed in the Developers’ Kit web page.