Diagnostics: EMS Hardware Monitors

The Event Monitoring System (EMS) Hardware Monitors allow you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products.

When monitors encounter failure or other unusual events, they generate messages with Description, Cause, and Action statements which can be used to prevent and reduce downtime caused by hardware failures.

EMS Hardware Monitors are installed automatically with the Support Tools Manager (STM). After installation, monitors must be enabled to begin operation. Most hardware monitors are supplied with a default configuration; additional configuration is optional. A few hardware monitors, such as the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Hub Monitor, have special requirements. See the EMS Hardware Monitors User's Guide for details.

EMS Hardware Monitors require minimal maintenance once installed and enabled. Default notification definitions are provided so additional configuration is not necessary. New hardware resources added to the system are automatically included in the monitoring structure.

For more information, see http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag.

Integration with Other Applications

The Event Monitoring System (EMS) Hardware Monitors can be integrated with applications responsible for maintaining system availability, such as MC/ServiceGuard. If configured to do so, they can provide event notification to system management applications such as HP OpenView IT/O and HP Network Node Manager.

The EMS Hardware Monitors use the same EMS framework as the EMS High Availability (HA) monitors, a separate set of monitors available at additional cost.

Some of the hardware monitors for fibre channel products write event information to text logs read by a new Predictive scanner, emsscan, which in turn may send events to the Response Center via On-line Predictive.