HP-UX 11i March 2002 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Operating Environment Applications

HP-UX 11i Operating Environment

Chapter 4

updated for

December 2001

Support Tools 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).

With the December 2001 release, STM has been updated to version A.29.00.

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.

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. For the latest

information on these changes, see the “Documentation” section below.

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.

For more information on these changes, refer to “Adding a Monitoring Request” in

Chapter 2 of the EMS Hardware Monitors User’s Guide (June 2000 or later edition)

available by searching on the manual title at:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/

Alternately, you can just run monconfig on HP-UX 11i to see the revised dialog.