Debug Logging of EMS HA Monitors

The debug logging of the EMS HA Monitors (mibmond, lanmond, fsmond, pkgmond, svcmond, clustermond, diskmond, rdbmsmond) can be enabled by modifying the monitor's dictionary file, by adding the options "-d -l" to the monitor invocation string and restarting it. See also the manual pages for the monitors.

As an example, enable the debug logging for the mibmond:

# cd /etc/opt/resmon/dictionary
# grep mibmond *
mibmond.dict:MONITOR: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/mibmond
mibmond.dict:MONITOR: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/mibmond
mibmond.dict:MONITOR: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/mibmond
mibmond.dict:MONITOR: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/mibmond

The mibmond start-up string is defined in the mibmond.dict file. Modify all the lines in the dictionary file that start with MONITOR and contain mibmond information.

MONITOR: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/mibmond -d -l

Now kill the mibmond. It will be restarted automatically if needed. After mibmond is automatically restarted, it will log debug data to /var/opt/resmon/log/mibmond.log. The mibmond.log file grows without bound.

	NOTE: Do not save the backup copy of a dictionary file in the /etc/opt/resmon/dictionary directory or in any other subdirectory. If you want to make a backup copy of a dictionary file , save it to /tmp (or similar). To obtain full debug logging from the EMS API library functions, you should enable the EMS debugging by creating /etc/opt/resmon/debug and restarting the monitor. To force the monitor to restart, the easiest method is to kill the monitor first, followed by issuing resls(1m) on a monitor resource. E.g. "resls /system/numUsers" will start the mibmond. When changing the start-up string of an EMS Monitor in the dictionary file, its persistence file name in /etc/opt/resmon/persistence will change. The file name of the persistence file is obtained by running a hash algorithm on the monitor start-up string stored in the dictionary file.