EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 August 2010 Release

Notes:
The requirements are available on the Operating Environment (OE) media.
ProviderSvcsBase: The ProviderSvcsBase product offers interface for user space processes
(typically, but not limited to, WBEM Indication Providers) to retrieve error logs from HP-UX
Kernel. Using these error logs, a user space process can generate event (WBEM indication or EMS
event), when an event of interest occurs on the system.
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 along with the Support Tools Manager (STM). Once the
monitoring software is installed, monitoring is enabled automatically.
By default, monitors report events with severity levels, MAJOR_WARNING, MINOR_WARNING,
SERIOUS, CRITICAL, or INFORMATION in the following ways:
Written to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file
Sent to the root E-mail address
Events are stored in the
/var/opt/resmon/log/event.log
file.