Installing and Using Monitors
Installing EMS Hardware Monitors
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
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
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 |
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Supported System Configuration
To use the hardware event monitors your system must meet the following requirements:
•HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 Computer
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•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
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