Using EMS HA Monitors

Preface

This guide describes how to install and conﬁgure the Event Monitoring Service to

monitor system health, and how to use EMS in conjunction with availability

software such as MC/ServiceGuard and IT/O:

• Chapter 1, “Installing and Using EMS” presents the exact steps required to

install and use the software on your system or cluster.

• Chapter 2, “Monitoring Disk Resources”, gives guidelines on using the disk

monitor, including using it with MC/ServiceGuard.

• Chapter 3, “Monitoring Cluster Resources”, gives guidelines on using the

cluster monitor.

• Chapter 4, “Monitoring Network Interfaces”, gives guidelines on using the

network interface monitor.

• Chapter 5, “Monitoring System Resources”, gives guidelines on using the

system resource monitor for monitoring users, job queues and available

ﬁlesystem space.

• Chapter 6, “Troubleshooting”, gives guidelines on reading log ﬁles, and testing

monitor requests.

Publications

The following documents contain additional related information:

• Clusters for High Availability: A Primer of HP-UX Solutions (ISBN

0-13-494758-4). HP Press: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996.

• Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX (ISBN 0-13-518861-X). HP Press;

Prentice Hall, Inc., 1997.

• Managing MC/ServiceGuard (HP Part Number B3936-90019).

• HP OpenView IT/Operations Administrators Task Guide (P/N B4249-90003)

• Conﬁguring OPS Clusters with MC/LockManager (HP Part Number

B5158-90001).

• Managing Highly Available NFS (HP Part Number B5125-90001)

• http://www.hp.com/go/ha external web site for information about

Hewlett-Packard’s high-availability technologies where you can documents

such as Writing Monitors for the Event Monitoring Service (EMS)