topic Re: self healing hpux servers in Operating System - HP-UX

self healing hpux servers

Shivkumar — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:30:54 GMT

Whether HPUX has any particular model of server which functions as self healing machine similar to AIX pSeries ?

Thanks,
Shiv

Re: self healing hpux servers

Torsten. — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:39:26 GMT

Hi Shiv,

I don't know the features of "self healing machine similar to AIX pSeries" because I'm not familiar with IBM servers.
But hp-ux servers can disable bad/suspect memory/cpu to continue work.

T.

Re: self healing hpux servers

Rajesh SB — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:50:15 GMT

Hi Shiv,

Can you brief us about self healing features?
So that, we can make out is available with HPUX.

Regards,
Rajesh

Re: self healing hpux servers

saju_2 — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 01:50:14 GMT

Hi Shiv

I saw one information in an old link that in HP-UX 11.23 partial self -healing and self-tuning will be available and in hp-ux 11.30 self -tuning and self -healing will be available completly. But this seems to have not happened.
Also in the below link you can find a statement
"increased system monitoring and self-healing capabilities on HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i v2"
http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/archived_news_bulletins.html

Also check
http://www.hoise.com/articles/SW-PR-11-97-9.html

Regards
CS

Re: self healing hpux servers

Tim D Fulford — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 04:41:00 GMT

Hi

I dont know of self healing (implying self monitoring and take appropriate actions under fault conditions), but there are some things things like fault tolerance and high availability that fit this catagory.

o APA (Auto port Aggrigation) for FT lans
o Some kernel parameters are modular, so can be tuned on fly
o Service Guard for High Availibility
o SecurePath, PowerPath, Vertias (I forget the name) FT & HA components for fibre connections into SAN
o RAID arrays, eva4000, 6000, 8000, msa1000, XP 10000 XP12000 + many many more
o LVM has RAID 1 & RAID 1+0
o There are also AutoRAID PCI cards
0 + many many more...

Generally if you want process self healing you need to build it ointo the APP, and maybe run it in things like SLEE... but this is way beyond HP-UX and is really for the application to sort.

Regards

Tim

Re: self healing hpux servers

morganelan — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:29:42 GMT

The HP Software Self-Healing Services software is dependent upon the Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE) client being installed on at least one (gateway) system within the userâ s environment. This system may be the OpenView management server or a completely different system as long as that system has access to the Internet either directly or through a proxy. The ISEE client must be installed on the system prior to installing the Self-Healing services on that same system.

If you are running HP-UX 11.x, make sure that you have installed all the operating system patches that the ISEE client requires.

Hardware requirements:

Your management server must meet the following minimum requirements:

* HP Business Server running HP-UX 11.0, 11.11, 11.23 or
* Sun server running Solaris 2.6-2.9 or
* Windows server running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP 6, 2000 SP4, XP

* 150 MB disk space available on gateway nodes or
* 15 MB on deployment and managed nodes

* Size of installed ISEE client software is 135 MB
* Size of installed Self-Healing Services client software is 15 MB

Re: self healing hpux servers

Mahesh Kumar Malik — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:40:55 GMT

Hi Shiv

Following link may be of help

http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/cb_headline.cgi?&story_file=bw.050603/231265357&directory=/google&header_file=header.htm&footer_file

Regards
Mahesh

Re: self healing hpux servers

Animesh Chakraborty — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:37:44 GMT

Hi Shiv,
Solaris 10 also have "predictive self healing" feature.

For example, every time I am killing the cron process,it will restart again by the self healing feature.

It is one of the many features available in self healing.

Cool ?
In HP-UX,I am not aware of any.

Thanks
Animesh