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Installing and Using Monitors
Installing EMS Hardware Monitors
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Installing EMS Hardware Monitors
The EMS Hardware Monitors software is distributed with the Support Tools (diagnostics). All the necessary
files for hardware monitoring are installed automatically when the Support Tools are installed. There are
several different ways that the Support Tools are installed:
• The Support Plus Media: installing the OnlineDiag depot from the Support Plus Media using swinstall.
• HP Software Depot website: downloading the “Support Tools for the HP 9000” in the “Enhancement
Releases” product category, then using swinstall to install the OnlineDiag depot.
• Automatic: with HP-UX 11i, the Support Tools are automatically installed from the OE CD-ROM when
the operating system is installed.
Complete instructions for installing STM are contained in Chapter 5 of the Support Plus: Diagnostics User's
Guide.
The following software components are installed for hardware monitoring:
• All hardware event monitors
• Monitor configuration files
• Monitoring Request Manager
• EMS framework, including the EMS graphical interface
All EMS Hardware Monitors on the CD-ROM will be installed on your system, but only those that support
hardware resources you are using will be active. If you add a new hardware resource to your system that uses
an installed monitor, the monitor will be launched when the system is restarted, following the execution of the
IOSCAN utility, or when the Enable Monitoring option is selected from the Hardware Monitoring Request
Manager. This ensures that immediate monitoring and notification are provided for the new hardware
resource.
NOTE Reinstalling or upgrading the STM software will erase the current Peripheral Status Monitor
(PSM) configuration. Any MC/ServiceGuard package dependencies or EMS monitoring
requests you have created with the PSM will be lost. Before reinstalling the STM software,
record the current PSM configuration so you can easily recreate it after the software has been
installed. Or you can comment out the PSM dependencies in the ServiceGuard configuration
files, then re-enable them after the STM software has been installed.
Supported System Configuration
To use the hardware event monitors your system must meet the following requirements:
• HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 Computer
• HP-UX 10.20 or 11.x (Hardware event monitoring is not currently available on the special high security
systems, HP-UX 10.26 (TOS) and HP-UX 11.04 (VVOS).
• Support Plus Media, the more current the better. The hardware event monitors were first distributed in
the February 1999 release (IPR 9902). Before the September 1999 release, the Support Plus Media was
called the Diagnostic/IPR Media.
Rather than use the Support Plus Media, you can download the Support Tools (including STM and the
hardware event monitors) over the Web. See Chapter 5 of the Support Plus: Diagnostics User's Guide for