Introduction | HP B6191-90029 manual

Introduction

1Introduction

This chapter introduces the EMS Hardware Monitors. The topics discussed in this chapter include the following:

•What is hardware monitoring?

•How does hardware monitoring work?

•Beneﬁts of hardware monitoring

•Products supported by hardware monitoring

•Tips for hardware monitoring

•Hardware monitoring terms

NOTE Do I Really Need to Read This Chapter?

Although it is not essential that you read this material before using the hardware monitors, it will help you understand how monitoring works, which in turn should help you use it effectively. New users are strongly encouraged to read through the general overview material before proceeding to Chapter 2, “Installing and Using Monitors”.

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Contents

Manufacturing Part Number B6191-90029 May EMS Hardware Monitors Users Guide Legal Notices Printing History Page Contents Hardware Monitor Conﬁguration Files Using the Peripheral Status Monitor Index Special Procedures Contents Tables Tables Figures Figures About This Manual Related Web sites Introduction Hardware Monitoring Overview What is Hardware Monitoring? Components Involved in Hardware Monitoring How Does Hardware Monitoring Work? Beneﬁts of Hardware Monitoring Products Supported by Hardware Monitors Tips for Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring Terms Hardware Monitoring TermsTerm Deﬁnition Hardware Monitoring Terms Hardware Monitoring Terms Hardware Monitoring Overview Chapter Installing and Using Monitors Steps Involved Steps for Installing and Conﬁguring Hardware Monitoring Installing EMS Hardware Monitors Ioscan UtilitySupported System Conﬁguration Removing EMS Hardware Monitors Checking for Special Requirements Disk ArraysProduct Model/Product Special Number Requirements Tape Products monitored by Scsi Tape Devices Monitor Disk Products Tape Products monitored by Scsi Tape Devices Monitor High Availability Storage Systems Fibre Channel Adapters Fibre Channel Scsi Multiplexers Fibre Channel Switch Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FC-AL HubProduct Model/Product Special Requirements Number System Memory Interface Cards Others Using Hardware Monitoring Requests What Is a Monitoring Request?Some Monitoring Request Examples Building a Monitoring Request To run the Monitoring Request Manager, type Running the Monitoring Request Manager Enabling Hardware Event Monitoring Default Monitoring Requests Default Monitoring Requests for Each MonitorSeverity Levels Notiﬁcation Method To list the descriptions of available monitors Listing Monitor Descriptions To view or show the current monitoring requests Viewing Current Monitoring Requests To add a monitoring request Adding a Monitoring Request Setting Description Monitoring Requests Conﬁguration Settings Event Severity Levels Event Severity MC/ServiceGuard Level Description Response Event Severity Levels Example of Adding a Monitoring Request == NEW Monitoring Choose Default== ADD Comment If Desired To modify a monitoring request Modifying Monitoring Requests Verifying Hardware Event Monitoring Major Checking Detailed Monitoring Status Retrieving and Interpreting Event Messages Sample Event MessageCritical To delete a monitoring request Deleting Monitoring Requests Disabling Hardware Event Monitoring To disable hardware event monitoring Disabling Hardware Event Monitoring Chapter Detailed Description Hardware Monitoring Architecture Detailed Picture of Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring Request Manager Components from Three Different Applications EMS Hardware Event Monitor Polling or Asynchronous?Startup Client Peripheral Status Monitor PSM Event Monitoring Service EMS File Locations File LocationsDirectories and Files Description Monitoring Startup Process Startup Process in Detail Disabling Monitoring Event Decoding Asynchronous Event Detection in Detail Asynchronous Event Detection Process FC-AL Hub and FC Switch Polling Processes Event Polling in DetailPA Memory Monitor Polling Monitoring Polling Process Memory Monitor Polling Process Detailed Picture of Hardware Monitoring Chapter Using the Peripheral Status Monitor Peripheral Status Monitor Overview How Does the PSM Work? Peripheral Status Monitor PSM Status PSM ComponentsPSM States PSM Resource Paths How Does the PSM Work? Conﬁguring MC/ServiceGuard Package Dependencies with the PSM To create a package resource dependency Conﬁguring Package Dependencies using SAM Resourcepollinginterval Resourceupvalue =UP Creating EMS Monitoring Requests for PSM To create a PSM monitoring requestFrom the Actions menu select Add Monitoring Request Specifying When to Send Event Notify Monitoring Request ParametersDetermining the Frequency of Events Options Critical Major Minor Normal Setting the Polling Interval Polling IntervalSelecting Protocols for Sending Events Notify Via Opcmsg ITO To set the TCP or UDP conditions Snmp trapsTo set the Snmp trap TCP and UDP Adding a Notiﬁcation Comment Comment Copying Monitoring Requests To change the monitoring parameters of a request To remove monitoring requests Removing Monitoring Requests Viewing Monitoring Requests To view the parameters for a monitoring requestFrom the Actions menu select View Monitoring Request Using the setfixed Utility to Restore Hardware UP State To restore the operating state of a resource to UPExample 4-1 Example of Using setfixed Using the Peripheral Status Monitor Hardware Monitor Conﬁguration Files Monitor Conﬁguration File Types Overview Verifying Monitors with a Test Event Client Conﬁguration FileClients Targets for Events Creating a Client Conﬁguration File *.clcfg Following is a sample of a client conﬁguration .clcfg ﬁle Sample Client Conﬁguration File EQ100INFORMATIONTRUENOTUSED ANY1NONENOOPNOOPNONE #CRITICAL # msa1000 events Client Conﬁguration File Monitor-Speciﬁc and Global Conﬁguration Files File NamesFile Format Interval must be a Setting Values DescriptionMonitor Conﬁguration File Entries Eventnum must be a Severity Action Monitor Conﬁguration File SettingsFrequency must be a Event Deﬁnition Sample Global Conﬁguration File Polling IntervalRepeat Frequency Defineevent 100401 Information = Communication DeviceDefineevent 100201 Information Defineevent 100301 Information Default # DefaultDtlpwrsomc 106 Defineevent 100233 Critical Defineevent 100132 CriticalDefineevent 100232 Critical Defineevent 100133 Critical Wrso Defineevent 100150 Critical Critical Default Defineevent 100158 Critical Critical Default # Defineevent 100572 Critical Defineevent 100272 CriticalDefineevent 100372 Critical Defineevent 100472 Critical Defineevent 100876 Critical Defineevent 100075 CriticalDefineevent 100376 Critical Defineevent 100476 Critical Information 114 Sample Monitor-Speciﬁc Conﬁguration File Severityaction Serious Severityaction InformationSeverityaction Minorwarning Severityaction Majorwarning Startup Conﬁguration File Keyword Values Description Startup Conﬁguration File Entries Chapter 119 Default File Entries Default Monitoring RequestsDescription Entry Peripheral Status Monitor PSM Conﬁguration File Considerations for Modifying the PSM Conﬁguration File Monitorresourcename PSM Conﬁguration File Fields 124 Downseveritythreshold Majorwarning Downseverityoperator = Example File Entries 126 Special Procedures Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Hub Monitor Initial Monitor Conﬁguration Conﬁguring the FC-AL Monitor Conﬁguration FileStep Conﬁguration Files Adding or Removing an FC-AL Hub This setting is required Default Setting Value Description PSM Conﬁguration File Fibre Channel Switch Monitor Adding or Removing an FC Switch Conﬁguring the FC Switch Monitor Conﬁguration FileChanging the FC Switch Monitoring Conﬁguration Chapter 135 136 Chapter 137 138 Index 140