closing the diamond daemon

[Simon Jespersen]

Hi!
Im working on securing our hpux servers, i have seen that the diamond daemon using varios tcp ports that it holds open. the man pages says that this daemon is used for different tools etc... im wondering is there any problems not running that daemon.

we are not using hp openview, but the isee is used on all our servers.

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

are you referring to the diagmond ??

[Simon Jespersen]

yes

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

diagmond is part of the Diagnostic and Support Tools for the HP-UX.

http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.html

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Prasanth B · Accepted solution]

Hi,

diagmond is part of online diagnostics (ODE). This is required to diagnose problems and HP recommends running this diag.

-PB

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Hi Simon,

Diagmond is needed for STM (Support Tools Manager) and the EMS HW monitors to run. Yes, you could run without these, but it would mean some of your hardware would not be monitored, and ISEE would not work properly as it uses both STM and the monitors. It has nothing directly to do with OpenView.

(ODE is OFFline Diagnostics, and does not require diagmond to run, as it runs without the Operating System running.)

It is possible to limit the communications to the local host only (STM can talk to tools on other systems, but this is rarely used); see the release notes for the version which introduced this - http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/diag/ems/emr_0112.htm and look for 'local_only'.

Andrew

[Simon Jespersen]

Thanks you all for the reply's on this question, we have desided to keep the diamond daemon running as were are using isee monitoring of the hardware.