EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1 December 2009 Release

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Release Notes for EMS Hardware Monitors B.11.11.21.06 on HP-UX 11i

v1 (11.11) (December 2009)

Online Diagnostics

Pre-requisites

Required and Recommended Patches

Loading Patches

EMS Hardware Monitors Overview

Configuring Hardware Monitoring

Known Problems

Monitors Provided

Product Documentation

SD Product Structure

Reporting Defects

Online Diagnostics

The Online Diagnostics software is a collection of tools that enables you to monitor and test server

hardware. It comprises the Event Monitoring Service (EMS) framework, the EMS Hardware Monitors, and

the Support Tools Manager (STM).

The Online Diagnostics tools are all contained in a Software Depot (SD) bundle, called the OnlineDiag

bundle. This bundle is distributed in the following ways:

OE media

HP Software Depot Web site

The following generic command lists various levels of content of the depot:

swlist -l <level> -s /<mount_point>/DIAGNOSTICS/<os_release>

where <level>

= bundle Bundle level listing

= product Product level listing

= subproduct Sub-product level listing

= fileset File set listing

<mount_point> Location where the CD file system

is mounted.

<os_release> The OS contents of the depot.

= B.11.00

For OnlineDiag on HP-UX 11i v1 December 2009 release, the following apply:

All diagnostic defect repairs and enhancements as of August 2007, are included. Any future patches

dated after August 2007 must be loaded after this version of OnlineDiag.

The new hardware resources in all active releases as of September 1, 2007 are supported.

Pre-requisites

Following is the software pre-requisite for installing Diagnostics and Support Tools:

· EMS version A.04.20.11 or later

Note: The requirements are available on the Operating Environment (OE) media.

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Release Notes for EMS Hardware Monitors B.11.11.21.06 on HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) (December 2009) Online Diagnostics Pre-requisites Required and Recommended Patches Loading Patches EMS Hardware Monitors Overview Configuring Hardware Monitoring Known Problems Monitors Provided Product Documentation SD Product Structure Reporting Defects Online Diagnostics The Online Diagnostics software is a collection of tools that enables you to monitor and test server hardware.
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Required and Recommended Patches Not Applicable The patch bundles are available at the following locations: OE media HP Software Depot Web site Loading Patches You can install the patches in one of the following ways: Method 1: Install the entire Hardware Enablement Bundle (HWE) or Quality Pack (QPK) patch bundle for your system. This is a simple and tested process. However, the volume of the patch bundle can be big.
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CRITICAL that are generated by the monitors are notified in the following ways: Written to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log Sent to the superuser's E-mail address. All events generated by all the monitors are stored in the /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log file. To configure, enable, or disable hardware event monitoring, run the /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig monitoring request manager. The Peripheral Status Monitor (PSM) and the Kernel Resource Monitor (krmond) are configured differently. They use the EMS GUI.
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Product Documentation For the latest and most complete information on EMS Hardware Monitors and the STM, see the documentation of Online Diagnostics at: http://www.hp.