Event Monitoring Services

Event Monitoring Services (EMS) is a framework for monitoring system resources which includes configuring, checking resource status, and sending notification when configured conditions are met.

Summary of Change

EMS now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion feature, which is available on Software Pack. (See “Node and Host Name Expansion”.)

EMS manpages are now available in Japanese.

Impact

There are no impacts, other than that listed above.

Compatibility

EMS libraries are also shipped as PA-RISC binaries on an HP-UX 11i v2 Itanium®-based system to provide compatibility for the existing PA-RISC-based monitors. The PA-RISC binaries run via the Aries Binary Translator.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

The Event Monitoring Service Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 and the High Availability Monitors Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 can be found on the Instant Information CD and at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/ha.
The Using Event Monitoring Service and Using High Availability Monitors user manuals are also available at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/ha.
For more information on the Aries Binary Translator, see the following:
- The Aries(5) manpage.
- The white paper, “Compatibility Mode on Itanium®-based HP-UX: A Developer Perspective,” available at http://devresource.hp.com/drc/STK/docs/refs/Aries.jsp.
The EMS framework manpages are now also available in Japanese.

Obsolescence

EMS will be deprecated post HP-UX 11i v3 in favor of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) tool.