HP HA s Software manual Preface, Publications

Page 9

Preface

This guide describes how to install and conﬁgure the Event Monitoring Service to monitor system health, and how to use EMS in conjunction with availability software such as MC/ServiceGuard and IT/O:

• Chapter 1, “Installing and Using EMS” presents the exact steps required to install and use the software on your system or cluster.

• Chapter 2, “Monitoring Disk Resources”, gives guidelines on using the disk monitor, including using it with MC/ServiceGuard.

• Chapter 3, “Monitoring Cluster Resources”, gives guidelines on using the cluster monitor.

• Chapter 4, “Monitoring Network Interfaces”, gives guidelines on using the network interface monitor.

	• Chapter 5, “Monitoring System Resources”, gives guidelines on using the
	system resource monitor for monitoring users, job queues and available
	ﬁlesystem space.
	• Chapter 6, “Troubleshooting”, gives guidelines on reading log ﬁles, and testing
	monitor requests.
Related	The following documents contain additional related information:
Publications	• Clusters for High Availability: A Primer of HP-UX Solutions (ISBN

	0-13-494758-4). HP Press: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996.
	• Disk and File Management Tasks on HP-UX (ISBN 0-13-518861-X). HP Press;
	Prentice Hall, Inc., 1997.
	• Managing MC/ServiceGuard (HP Part Number B3936-90019).
	• HP OpenView IT/Operations Administrators Task Guide (P/N B4249-90003)
	• Conﬁguring OPS Clusters with MC/LockManager (HP Part Number
	B5158-90001).
	• Managing Highly Available NFS (HP Part Number B5125-90001)
	• http://www.hp.com/go/ha external web site for information about
	Hewlett-Packard’s high-availability technologies where you can documents
	such as Writing Monitors for the Event Monitoring Service (EMS)

9

Image 9

Contents B5735-90001 August Using EMS HA MonitorsLegal Notices Contents Monitoring Network Interfaces Monitoring Cluster ResourcesTroubleshooting Monitoring System ResourcesGlossary Contents Printing History Printing Date Part Number EditionB5735-90001 Page Publications PrefacePage Installing and Using EMS What are EMS HA Monitors? Event Monitoring Services High Availability MonitorsChapter Role of EMS HA Monitors in a High Availability Environment Installing EMS HA Monitors Installing and Removing EMS HA MonitorsRemoving EMS HA Monitors Event Monitoring Service Resource Class Hierarchy Using EMS HA MonitorsStatus AvailMB PvpvlinkEvent Monitoring Service Screen Screen Selecting a Resource to MonitorUsing Wildcards Monitoring Request Parameters Creating a Monitoring RequestHow Do I Tell EMS When to Send Events? Which Protocols Can I Use to Send Events? What is a Polling Interval?What is a Notiﬁcation Comment? Copying Monitoring Requests Modifying Monitoring RequestsRemoving Monitoring Requests Service EMS Conﬁguring MC/ServiceGuard Package DependenciesPackage Conﬁguration Screen Package Resource Dependencies Screen Resource Parameters Screen Using EMS HA Monitors Monitoring Disk Resources Monitoring Disk Resources Disk Monitor Resource Class Hierarchy Disk Monitor ReferenceInterpreting Physical Volume Summary Physical Volume SummaryDisk Monitor Reference Interpreting Physical Volume and Physical Volume Link Status Physical Volume and Physical Volume Link StatusInterpreting Logical Volume Summary Logical Volume SummaryInterpreting Logical Volume Status Logical Volume StatusLogical volume is inactive Logical volume is DOWN, a complete copy of the data is notInterpreting Logical Volume Copies Logical Volume Number of CopiesRules for Using the EMS Disk Monitor with MC/ServiceGuard Rules for Using the EMS Disk Monitor with MC/ServiceGuard Pvsummary Calculations Case Conclusion State Rules for RAID ArraysAdding PVGs to Existing Volume Groups Creating Volume Groups on Disk Arrays Using PV Links# mkdir /dev/vgdatabase Creating Logical Volumes Rules for Mirrored Individual Disks Creating Disk Monitoring Requests Disk Monitoring Request Suggestions Parameters When Disks Fail RAID Array Example Resources to Monitor for RAID ArraysPvgup Return Mirrored Disks Example Resources to Monitor for Mirrored DisksMonitoring Parameters Resource Notify Condition Option Example for Interpreting the pvsummary for Mirrored Disks Resources to Monitor for Lock DisksNumber Pvsummary Valid Meaning Value Devices Resource Monitoring Parameters Notify Condition OptionResources to Monitor for Root Volumes Monitoring Cluster Resources Cluster Monitor Reference Cluster Monitor Resource Class HierarchyCluster Interpreting Custer Status Cluster StatusInterpreting Node Status Node StatusInterpreting Package Status Package StatusCreating Cluster Monitoring Requests Monitoring Network Interfaces Network Monitor Reference Network Monitor Resource Class HierarchyInterpreting LAN Interface Status Chapter Conﬁguring Network Monitoring Requests Net/interfaces/lan/status/LANname When value is30 sec HourMonitoring System Resources System Resource Monitor Class Hierarchy System Monitor ReferenceNumber of Users Interpreting Number of UsersResource Name Value Range Interpretation Job Queues Interpreting Job QueuesResource Name Value Interpretation Range Filesystem Available Space Filesystem Available SpaceResource Name Creating System Resource Monitoring Requests 6Troubleshooting EMS Directories and Files Etc/opt/resmon/log EMS Logging Logging and tracingEMS Tracing System Performance Issues Network Performance IssuesPerformance Considerations Testing Disk Monitor Requests Testing Monitor RequestsTesting Cluster Monitor Requests Testing Network Monitor RequestsMaking Sure Monitors are Running Glossary Notiﬁcation See alert Glossary Glossary Index Index Index