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The Detailed Picture of Hardware Monitoring

The Detailed Picture of Hardware Monitoring

The following ﬁgure shows the major components involved in hardware monitoring and the communication paths between them.

Figure 3-1 Hardware Monitoring Architecture

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EMS Hardware Monitors Users Guide Manufacturing Part Number B6191-90029 May Legal Notices Printing History Page Contents Using the Peripheral Status Monitor Hardware Monitor Conﬁguration Files Special Procedures Index Contents Tables Tables Figures Figures About This Manual Related Web sites Introduction What is Hardware Monitoring? Hardware Monitoring Overview How Does Hardware Monitoring Work? Components Involved in Hardware Monitoring 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 Disk Products Tape Products monitored by Scsi Tape Devices Monitor Tape Products monitored by Scsi Tape Devices Monitor High Availability Storage Systems Fibre Channel Scsi Multiplexers Fibre Channel Adapters Fibre Channel Switch Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FC-AL HubProduct Model/Product Special Requirements Number Memory System Interface Cards Others Using Hardware Monitoring Requests What Is a Monitoring Request?Some Monitoring Request Examples Building a Monitoring Request Running the Monitoring Request Manager To run the Monitoring Request Manager, type Enabling Hardware Event Monitoring Default Monitoring Requests Default Monitoring Requests for Each MonitorSeverity Levels Notiﬁcation Method Listing Monitor Descriptions To list the descriptions of available monitors Viewing Current Monitoring Requests To view or show the current monitoring requests Adding a Monitoring Request To add a monitoring request Monitoring Requests Conﬁguration Settings Setting Description Event Severity MC/ServiceGuard Level Description Response Event Severity Levels Event Severity Levels Example of Adding a Monitoring Request Choose Default == ADD CommentIf Desired == NEW Monitoring Modifying Monitoring Requests To modify a monitoring request Verifying Hardware Event Monitoring Checking Detailed Monitoring Status Major Retrieving and Interpreting Event Messages Sample Event MessageCritical Deleting Monitoring Requests To delete a monitoring request To disable hardware event monitoring Disabling Hardware Event Monitoring Disabling Hardware Event Monitoring Chapter Detailed Description Detailed Picture of Hardware Monitoring Hardware Monitoring Architecture Components from Three Different Applications Hardware Monitoring Request Manager EMS Hardware Event Monitor Polling or Asynchronous?Startup Client Event Monitoring Service EMS Peripheral Status Monitor PSM File Locations File LocationsDirectories and Files Description Startup Process in Detail Monitoring Startup Process Disabling Monitoring Asynchronous Event Detection in Detail Event Decoding 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 Components PSM StatesPSM Resource Paths PSM Status How Does the PSM Work? Conﬁguring MC/ServiceGuard Package Dependencies with the PSM Conﬁguring Package Dependencies using SAM To create a package resource dependency 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 Setting the Polling Interval Polling Interval Selecting Protocols for Sending Events Notify ViaOpcmsg ITO Critical Major Minor Normal Snmp traps To set the Snmp trapTCP and UDP To set the TCP or UDP conditions Adding a Notiﬁcation Comment Comment Copying Monitoring Requests To change the monitoring parameters of a request Removing Monitoring Requests To remove 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 Overview Monitor Conﬁguration File Types Client Conﬁguration File Clients Targets for EventsCreating a Client Conﬁguration File *.clcfg Verifying Monitors with a Test Event Sample Client Conﬁguration File Following is a sample of a client conﬁguration .clcfg ﬁle #CRITICAL EQ100INFORMATIONTRUENOTUSED ANY1NONENOOPNOOPNONE # msa1000 events Client Conﬁguration File Monitor-Speciﬁc and Global Conﬁguration Files File NamesFile Format Setting Values Description Monitor Conﬁguration File EntriesEventnum must be a Interval must be a Monitor Conﬁguration File Settings Frequency must be aEvent Deﬁnition Severity Action Sample Global Conﬁguration File Polling IntervalRepeat Frequency = Communication Device Defineevent 100201 InformationDefineevent 100301 Information Defineevent 100401 Information Default # DefaultDtlpwrsomc 106 Defineevent 100132 Critical Defineevent 100232 CriticalDefineevent 100133 Critical Defineevent 100233 Critical Wrso Critical Default Defineevent 100150 Critical Critical Default # Defineevent 100158 Critical Defineevent 100272 Critical Defineevent 100372 CriticalDefineevent 100472 Critical Defineevent 100572 Critical Defineevent 100075 Critical Defineevent 100376 CriticalDefineevent 100476 Critical Defineevent 100876 Critical Information 114 Sample Monitor-Speciﬁc Conﬁguration File Severityaction Information Severityaction MinorwarningSeverityaction Majorwarning Severityaction Serious Startup Conﬁguration File Startup Conﬁguration File Entries Keyword Values Description Chapter 119 Default File Entries Default Monitoring RequestsDescription Entry Peripheral Status Monitor PSM Conﬁguration File Considerations for Modifying the PSM Conﬁguration File PSM Conﬁguration File Fields Monitorresourcename 124 Example File Entries Downseveritythreshold Majorwarning Downseverityoperator = 126 Special Procedures Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Hub Monitor Initial Monitor Conﬁguration Conﬁguring the FC-AL Monitor Conﬁguration FileStep Adding or Removing an FC-AL Hub Conﬁguration Files Default Setting Value Description This setting is required 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