do you use EMS for system resources, e.g. filesystem space, etc. ?

[John Kittel]

HP-UX 11.11.

A year or more ago I wrote a shell script, run hourly by cron, to check free space on specific filesystems, and send email and pages if too full, with various alarm thresholds, etc.

I just discovered that I can set up EMS to do this.

Does anyone have comments regarding which method is preferable, most commonly used, any issues with using EMS, etc?

Thanks,
John

[Geoff Wild]

I don't use EMS for that - use OVO.

Also have used BigBrother.

http://bb4.com/

Rgds..Geoff

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John,

We use nimbus / CA unicenter / big brother monitoring for this.

I also have a script that i use once in a while.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John

EMS can be used to monitor filesystems and other system resources, but that is part of a add-on product to the free EMS s/w.

This product is called "EMS high availability (HA) monitors" and it is a $$ product sold seperately by HP.

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8678BA:B5736-90022

Hope this helps.

regds

[Andrew Merritt_2]

Sanjay,
John is right, you can monitor file system space usage and other things with EMS (the Event Monitoring Service), via SAM.

See http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/B7609-90022/B7609-90022.html

The HA monitors do use EMS to report their events, and are documented on together with EMS (http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/ha/index.html) but EMS itself is free.

Andrew

[John Kittel]

Thanks guys.

I'm going to stick with my shell script for now. For one thing, with SAM I seem to be able to see only one configured event at a time. Hard to get the big picture. Also, lots of pointing and clicking, - yuk.

With my shell script, it uses a config file, easy to see what are all the filesystems, alarm thresholds, actions, all on one screen.

- John