EMS Hardware Monitors: Overview

system are automatically included in the monitoring structure.
Provides automatic recovery from memory and CPU errors on some systems (memory page
deallocation and dynamic processor resilience).
EMS Hardware Monitors: Installing
You can get hardware monitoring installed and working in minutes.
System requirements:
HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 Computer
HP-UX 10.20 or 11.00 (Hardware event monitoring is not currently available on the special high
security systems, HP-UX 10.26 (TOS) and HP-UX 11.04 (VVOS).)
Support Plus Media (CD-ROM)
If you are using MC/ServiceGuard (optional), you must have version A.10.11 on HP-UX 10.20, or
version A.11.04 for HP-UX 11.0.
Procedure:
1. Install the Support Tools Manager (STM) from the Support Plus Media (CD-ROM) as described in
Chapter 5 of the Support Plus: Diagnostics User's Guide. The EMS hardware monitors are
automatically installed when STM is installed.
2. Examine the list of supported products to see if any of your devices have special requirements in
order to be monitored.
For example,if monitoring FC-AL hubs, edit the file /var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_fc_hub.
For complete instructions, see the data sheet for the FC-AL Hub Monitor in the "EMS Hardware
Monitor User's Guide" available from the http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-docs
3. Enable hardware event monitoring (April 1999 and earlier releases only):
a. Run the monitoring request manager by typing: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig
b. From the main menu selection prompt, enter E(nable Monitoring)
As of the June 1999 release, this step is not necessary.
4. Add or modify monitoring requests to customize the monitoring configuration for your system.
5. (Recommended) Verify that monitors are correctly operating, for example, by simulating a hardware
failure or event.
For complete instructions, see Chapter 2 (Installing and Using EMS Hardware Monitors) in the "EMS
Hardware Monitor User's Guide" available from the http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-docs
The default hardware monitoring configuration should meet most monitoring requirements. By default,
messages regarding major warning, serious and critical events are:
Written to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
Sent to EMAIL address root
All events are also stored in /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log.
(For versions of the EMS hardware monitors dated April 1999 and earlier, major warning, serious, and
critical messages were also sent to the system console by default.)