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Using the Diagnostic/IPR Media to Install Diagnostics on Your System
EMS Hardware Monitors
EMS Hardware Monitors
Included on the Diagnostic/IPR Media are the EMS Hardware Monitors -- an important
new 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 is available to users
running HP-UX 10.20 or 11.x (IPR 9902 or later; 9902 refers to the February 1999 release).
Hardware event monitoring provides a high level of protection against system hardware
failure. By using hardware event monitoring, you can virtually eliminate undetected
hardware failures that could interrupt system operation or cause data loss.
The EMS Hardware Monitors are installed with the Support Tools Manager. Once the
monitoring software is installed, monitoring is automatically enabled and all supported
hardware devices on your system are automatically monitored. (In releases earlier than
June 1999, you must first enable hardware monitoring.)
For more information, see Appendix B (EMS Hardware Monitors) in this manual.