HP-UX 11i June 2003 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 Operating Environment Applications
HP-UX 11i Foundation Operating Environment
Chapter 6
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HP-UX Support Tools (Diagnostics): STM, ODE, & EMS
Hardware Monitors
HP-UX Support Tools provide a complete set of tools for verifying, troubleshooting, and
monitoring HP system hardware, including CPUs, memory, interface cards, and mass
storage devices.
Support Tool Manager (STM) is the platform for executing online diagnostics. The
commands to start it are xstm (GUI interface), mstm (menu-driven interface), cstm
(command line interface), or stm (general). STM is part of the OnlineDiag bundle
delivered through Hardware Enablement on the OE media and on the Support Plus CD.
Offline Diagnostic Environment (ODE) is the platform for executing offline
diagnostics. Normally it is run from the Support Plus CD with the system offline.
EMS Hardware Monitors allow you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of
hardware products and be alerted immediately if any failure or other unusual event
occurs. The EMS Hardware Monitors are started automatically with no user
intervention.EMS Hardware Monitors are part of the OnlineDiag bundle delivered
through Hardware Enablement on the OE media and on the Support Plus CD.
NOTE Since the initial release of HP-UX 11i, there have been numerous changes to the Support
Tools, including support for new devices, bug fixes, and enhancements. Changes to
hardware support are listed in “Hardware Enablement” on page 72. For the latest details
about these and other changes, go to the web site http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/.
The rest of this section describes the major differences between Support Tools on HP-UX
11i and Support Tools on previous releases (HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0).
Impact
The HP-UX Support Tools have been modified to support new products, such as
Superdome systems.
With HP-UX 11i, the Support Tools are automatically installed with the HP-UX 11i
Operating Environment CD. It is no longer necessary to load the Support Tools from the
Support Plus media. (The Support Plus media, however, still contains the Support Tools,
and will continue to be distributed. Offline tools are run from the Support Plus CD and
cannot be run from the HP-UX 11i Operating Environment CD.)
NOTE As of HP-UX 11i, Predictive Support is no longer distributed with the Support Tools.
Disk space required by the HP-UX 11i Support Tools is comparable to the disk space
required for previous releases (in the range of 60-70MB).
Compatibility
There are minor changes in monconfig, the user interface for configuring EMS
Hardware Monitors. These changes relate to the client configuration files which have
been added to support the multiple-view (Predictive-enabled) feature.
If you have scripts which invoke monconfig, they may have to be modified.