Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

The HA Monitors software should be installed on each node that you want to monitor. It does not need to be installed on the management station, unless you want to also monitor the management station itself.

Compatibility with HP-UX Releases

HA Monitors Version A.03.20.01 runs on HP-UX 11i only.

Software Requirements

HA Monitors A.03.20.01 is dependent on Event Monitoring Service, Version A.03.20.01 or later. When you order the HA Monitors product, EMS software and documentation is automatically included.

Note: EMS is also included with other monitoring products. If you should install one of these monitors later, your present EMS software may be replaced with a later version. Documentation for all versions of EMS is on the http://www.docs.hp.com web site, under High Availability.

Requirements for MC/ServiceGuard and ServiceGuard OPS Edition users:

When you have ServiceGuard installed and want HA Monitors to be part of a package, specify the monitor as a package resource dependency when you configure the package.

The following versions of ServiceGuard are compatible with Version A.03.20.01 of HA Monitors:

HP-UX 11i, MC/ServiceGuard Version A.11.09 or higher
HP-UX 11i, ServiceGuard OPS Edition Version A.11.09 or higher

The HA Database Monitor is supported with MC/ServiceGuard A.11.09 or higher on HP-UX 11.11 systems only. Please refer to the MC/ServiceGuard Version A.11.09 Release Notes for information on using the deferred resource feature when configuring in MC/ServiceGuard. (You can see and print the Release Notes at: http://www.docs.hp.com -> High Availability.)

Requirements for HP OpenView Users:

Configure templates into HP OpenView ITO or NNM to see the status of HA Monitors. To configure, download the latest templates from the http://software.hp.com web site. Click High Availability, then Event Monitoring Service Developers' Kit. The templates are in a list near the bottom of the Developers' Kit page.

Requirements for Database Monitor Users:

The Database Monitor is supported for the Oracle Enterprise Server Version 8.0.5 and Informix Version 7.3.0. Before you begin to monitor your database services, you must install and have executing, the following components:

For Oracle:
- Oracle Net8 (for networking)
- Oracle Intelligent Agent (for SNMP support) and any patches
The HA Database Monitor depends on Oracle Net8 TCP/IP protocol adapter, the Oracle Intelligent Agent, the Oracle SNMP Master Agent (master_peer and start_peer), the Oracle database subagent (dbsnmp), the Oracle Listener (tnslsnr), and the values in the public RDBMS MIB (based on RFC 1697). For more information, please consult the Oracle 8 Enterprise Server documentation, particularly Oracle 8 Installation Guide, Oracle SNMP Support Reference, and Oracle Net8 Administrator's Guide.
For Informix:
- Informix SNMP subagent
  The Informix SNMP subagent, onsnmp, can be started by issuing the following command:
  $INFORMIXDIR/bin/onsrvapd -k0 -rall
  This command causes the SNMP subagent to remain up even though the Informix database may be stopped and restarted. The subagent must be active in order to be able to access the values in the rdbms public MIB, on which the HA Database Monitor reports.

Requirements for HA Disk Monitor Users:

There are two cases where the HA Disk Monitor has software requirements: NIO bus and Fibre Channel.

To use the HA Disk Monitor with disks connected by an NIO bus or by Fibre Channel, you must configure the SCSI pass-thru driver, spt0, into the kernel. Add spt0 to the /stand/system file, rebuild the kernel, and reboot.

Hardware Requirements

High Availability Monitors run on the HP 9000 series 800 servers.

The disk monitor supports SCSI SE (single-ended) and F/W (fast/wide) disks, including:

Hewlett-Packard High Availability Disk Array, Models 10 and 20
Hewlett-Packard Disk Array with AutoRAID, Models 12 and 12H
EMC Symmetrix arrays for both fibre channel and SCSI disks
Hewlett-Packard High Availability Storage System
Single-spindle SCSI disks
HP High Availability Disk Array, Model 30 Fibre Channel
HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256 for Fibre Channel and SCSI
HP SureStore E Disk System, models FC10 and FC60

The disk monitor does not support HP-IB or HP-FL disks.

Disk Space and Memory Requirements

The High Availability Monitors product requires 4.45 Mb of disk space to install, and a minimum of 32 Mb of RAM to execute.

Installing High Availability Monitors

The High Availability Monitors product can be installed on a running system in multi-user mode.

Use the software management tools in SAM or the swinstall command to install HA Monitors. For details see Using High Availability Monitors (HP Part Number B5736-90025).

The HA Monitors Version A.03.20.01 bundle (Part number B5736DA) contains the following file sets:

EMS-MIBMonitor.MIBMON-RUN — the MIB (Management Information Base) monitors for cluster, networking interface, and system resources.
EMS-DiskMonitor.DISKMON-RUN — Disk monitor for physical and logical volume resources configured by LVM.
EMS-RdbmsMon.RDBMSMON-RUN — Database monitor for MIB resources.