EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 January 2011 Release

Required and Recommended Patches
• Not Applicable
The pervious 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.
Method 2:
Install only the individual patches required from the patch bundle available on the OE media. This
method is advantageous because the size of the patches is small. However, you must select and
install patches manually.
Method 3:
Install individual patches from the HP IT Resource Center at:
http://us.itrc.hp.com/
Notes:
• After installing individual patches from the HP IT Resource Center, you must restart your system.
• You must install the patches mentioned before installing Online Diagnostics.
EMS Hardware Monitors Overview
EMS Hardware Monitors are a set of tools for maintaining system availability. They enable you to
monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware resources and be alerted immediately if any
failure or other unusual event occurs.
Hardware event monitoring provides a high level of protection against system hardware failure.
By using hardware event monitoring, you can eliminate the most undetected hardware failures that
could interrupt system operation or cause data loss.
Configuring Hardware Monitoring
The EMS Hardware Monitors are installed at the same time as STM. Once the monitoring software
is installed, monitoring is automatically enabled.
By default, events with severity levels MAJOR WARNING, MINOR WARNING, SERIOUS, or
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. For more information, see:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diag-ems-gui-doc
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