Using EMS HA Monitors

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Monitoring Disk Resources

Creating Disk Monitoring Requests

There are two ways to create disk monitor requests from:

• the SAM interface to EMS to send alerts to HP OpenView ITO, ClusterView, or

Network Node Manager.

• MC/ServiceGuard to conﬁgure any disk monitor resource as a package

dependency.

These requests are not exclusive: you can conﬁgure the disk monitor from both

MC/ServiceGuard and the SAM interface to EMS. In fact, if you are using EMS to

monitor disks for MC/ServiceGuard package dependencies, it is recommended you

also conﬁgure EMS to send events to your system monitoring software, e.g. HP

OpenView IT/Operations, so you are alerted when something threatens data or

application availability.

The following sections take some common disk conﬁgurations in a high availability

environment and give examples of the types of monitor requests you might want to

create.