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Release Notes for EMS Hardware Monitors (HP-UX 11i V1.5, Initial Release)

These release notes covers the Initial Release of the Support Tools (diagnostics) for HP-UX 11i V1.5.

Overview

Included with the OnlineDiag bundle of support tools are the EMS Hardware Monitors - an important tool for maintaining system availability. The EMS hardware monitors allow you to monitor the operation of a wide variety of hardware products 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 most undetected hardware failures that could interrupt system operation or cause data loss.

NOTE: To get all the support tools (online diagnostics and monitors) for the RX9610 HP Server, you must load the Sept 01 release of the diagnostics. See:
"DIAGNOSTICS.readme for HP-UX 11i V1.5 (Sept 01)" at: 
http://docs/hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/st/str_1120b.htm
The RX4610 HP Server can use either the initial (June 01) release or the Sept 01 release. The Sept 01 release has enhancements and bug fixes.

(Note that for these servers there are two model numbers, RX4610 and RX9610, which differ only by one digit: "4" vs "9".)

Configuring Hardware Monitoring

The EMS Hardware Monitors are installed at the same time as the Support Tools Manager. Once the monitoring software is installed, monitoring is automatically enabled.

By default, messages regarding major warning, serious and critical events that occur on hardware being monitored will be:

All events will be stored in /var/opt/resmon/log/event.log.

To configure, enable, or disable hardware event monitoring, run the monitoring request manager: /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig .

The Peripheral Status Monitor (PSM) and the The Kernel Resource Monitor (krmond) are configured differently. They use the EMS GUI. See: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ems/ems_gui.htm

Documentation

For the latest and most complete information on EMS Hardware Monitors and the Support Tools Manager (STM), see the Diagnostics section of Hewlett-Packard's online documentation Web site at:

     http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/
At this site, you will find Overviews, Tutorials, Quick Reference Cards, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and much other material.

For complete information on installing and using EMS hardware monitors, as well as a list of supported hardware, refer to the "EMS Hardware Monitors User's Guide" available at the above site.

For the most current information on HP-UX 11i V1.5 diagnostics, see the following Web pages at the Diagnostics site:

Changes

For the initial release of 11i V1.5, the EMS hardware monitors will be using version A.03.30 of the EMS platform. HP-UX 11i V1.5 does not support the full functionality of the EMS platform. However, all EMS functionality required by the hardware monitors is provided.

The notification method "SNMP" that can be configured (in previous releases) for EMS HW Monitors will NOT be available to monitors running on HP-UX 11i V1.5.

Memory Page Deallocation (MPD) and the memlogd daemon are not implemented on the RX 4610 computer.

Known Problems

PROBLEM: Memory Page Deallocation (MPD) is not available on the RX 4610 computer.

The Memory Page Deallocation (MPD), which runs on most current HP-UX computer systems, does not work on the RX 4610 computer. If you look in the activity log for memlogd, you will see a message saying, "unsupported device."

MPD cannot be implemented on RX 4610 because of the design of that system. The memlogd daemon cannot run on it.

PROBLEM: dm_fc_hub and dm_fc_sw monitors not functional.

In the initial release of 11i V1.5, the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Hub monitor (dm_fc_hub) and the Fibre Channel Switch monitor (dm_fc_sw) are not functional, because these monitors depend on SNMP functionality which is not included in the initial release. Current plans are to provide this functionality through patches and in future releases.

Monitors Provided

For the initial release of HP-UX 11i V1.5, the following monitors are scheduled to be available: The following monitors are NOT provided:

For detailed information concerning which products are supported by which monitors and additional dependencies, check the "Diagnostics" section of Hewlett-Packard's online documentation web site: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/ .

Monitor Dependencies

Several of the monitors have special requirements, such as patches or certain versions of firmware. In particular:

For a list of the current required patches, see the DIAGNOSTIC.readme file for this release.

Current monitor requirements are described in the "Supported Products" page under "EMS Hardware Monitors" at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag . Requirements are also listed in chapter 2 of the manual "EMS Hardware Monitors User's Guide".

Defect Reporting

Use CHART to report defects in the EMS Hardware monitors. The project name is diag.hw_mon.hpux. If you don't have access to CHART, contact an HP representative to enter a defect for you.

SD Product Structure

The EMS hardware monitors are installed as part of the OnlineDiag bundle (product number B4708AA). In addition, they utilize the EMS framework, product number B7609BA.

For information on the STM product, refer to the STM release notes file /usr/sbin/stm/Rel_NOTES.STM.

SD Bundle: OnlineDiag
   Description: On-line Diagnostic System (Series 800/700)

   SD PRODUCT: Sup-Tool-Mgr
      Description: Support Tools Manager for HP-UX Systems

      SD SUB-PRODUCT: Manuals
      Description: Support Tools Manager Manual Pages

         FILESET: RELEASE_NOTES
            Description: HPUX STM Release Notes

         FILESET: STM-MAN
            Description: HPUX STM Manual Pages

      SD SUB-PRODUCT: Runtime
      Description: STM Manual Runtime

         FILESET: STM-CATALOGS
            Description: HPUX STM Shared Libraries

         FILESET: STM-SHLIBS
            Description: HPUX STM Shared Libraries

         FILESET: STM-UI-RUN 
            Description: HPUX STM User Interface
         
         FILESET: STM-UUT-RUN
            Description: HPUX STM Unit Under Test Runtime 

   SD PRODUCT: EMS-Config
      Description: EMS Config

         FILESET: EMS-GUI
            Description: Event Monitoring Service Graphical 
                         User Interface

   SD PRODUCT: EMS-Core
      Description: EMS Core Product

         FILESET: EMS-CORE
            Description: Event Monitoring Service Core Files
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