EMS Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 release

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.
To configure, enable, or disable hardware event monitoring, run the monitoring
request manager.
The Peripheral Status Monitor (PSM) is configured using the Event Monitoring Service
(EMS). For more information on how to configure PSM, see Configuring Monitors
with the EMS GUI at:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diag-ems-gui-doc
Changes
Following are the changes made to the EMS Hardware Monitors for the current
release:
• Changes to monitoring
• Changes to all monitors
• Changes to individual monitors
• Changes to configuration files
• Changes to monitoring request manager
• Changes to monitoring
Starting with the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2008 release, SFM is the default
monitoring mode. However, it is possible to switch to the OnlineDiag monitoring
mode. For information on how to switch to the OnlineDiag mode, see the SFM
Administrator's Guide at:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-docs
Release Notes for EMS Hardware Monitors B.11.31.22.02 on HP-UX 11i v3 (March 2013) 3