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Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

 
rana786
Regular Advisor

Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hi all,
I need a tool for diagnose my hp- ux (11.11)system. I need to find out following items in one shot.
1. Multiple instances of a service running.
2. Service hanged/stopped/terminated abnormally.
3. Failure of device/file system/volume, etc.
4. Memory corruption.
5. Disk corruption.
6. High CPU/memory utilization for an extended period of time.
7. Any other abnormal/critical events affecting system performance/operation.

Can any one help me?

Best regards,
Rana
Walker_dhk
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rana786
Regular Advisor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hi all,

This tool should be able to send notifications to system admins when such situations occur.

Best regards,
Rana
Walker_dhk
Raj D.
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Rana,

Check the OnlineDiag and STM tools, all the answers are here,

http://docs.hp.com/en/diag/ems/emr_1120.htm

Cheers,
Raj.
" If u think u can , If u think u cannot , - You are always Right . "
Raj D.
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Also ,
for 2.Service hanged/stopped/terminated abnormally. you have to write customized scripts and to run with cron , and for 6.High CPU/memory utilization for an extended period of time: you have to write small script using glance advisor mode, and using mailx to notify via email. Rest other things are addressed by STM tool and logs to event.log and syslog.log

Cheers,
Raj.
" If u think u can , If u think u cannot , - You are always Right . "
rana786
Regular Advisor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hi Raj,

Do I need to buy this stm tool or it is free? How can I install and configure this utility?

Best regards,
Rana
Walker_dhk
Robert-Jan Goossens_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Rana,

It's a free tool, you can download the tool from below link.

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6191AAE

Regards,
Robert-Jan
Yogeeraj_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hi rana,

the HP Diagnostic and Support Tools bundle is available for free. go to:
https://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/try.do?productNumber=B6191AAE


Also consider installing the Hardware Monitors.

EMS Hardware Monitors for maintaining system availability. EMS Hardware Monitors allow you to monitor operations of a wide variety of hardware. They alert you immediately if any failure or a suspicious event occurs.

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave (clavin coolidge)
Yarek
Regular Advisor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

hi,


Support Tools Manager (STM)

Event Information Tools (EIT)

Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE)



rgds
Andrew Merritt_2
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

The HP Diagnostic and Support Tools bundle Yogeeraj refers to includes both STM and the EMS HW Monitors.

The normal OS installation should include this, but it's always worth installing the latest version of OnlineDiags. Bugs are fixed and new hardware is supported each successive release. You should also install the latest patch for that version.

See http://www.docs.hp.com/en/diag/stm/stm_upd.htm#table for the versions.

Andrew
rana786
Regular Advisor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hi all,

My management wants stm/ems will automatically notify certain users other than root user if situation occurs. Is it possible to configure with the stm/ems? or I need any third party software?

Best regards,
Rana
Walker_dhk
Alpha977
Valued Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hello!

try "xstm" for a graphical HP tool for diagnose.

Regards.
Bill Hassell
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Your requirements cannot be handled in a single tool with the possible exception of HP's Openview operations center. Out of your list, the online diagnostics will only handle 3 and 4, part of 5 and 7 when the issue is hardware.

Your list:

> 1. Multiple instances of a service running.

This is an undefined requirement. HP-UX will schedule and manage kernel services. Your applications require their own monitor since there is no way for the OS to know what is normal for your codce.

> 2. Service hanged/stopped/terminated abnormally.

OpenView's operation manager can handle these items but it requires extensive setup anjd testing. Oh, it is an extra cost product.

> 3. Failure of device/file system/volume, etc.
> 4. Memory corruption.

The online diagnostics can be configured to do both 3 and 4.

5. Disk corruption.

If the disk has a hardware failure, this is handled by the diagnostics. If the system is missing patches, or a bad program corrupts a filesystem, this requires a special program to test the integrity of the directory. There is no way to test that the contents of any particular file has not been changed incorrectly.

> 6. High CPU/memory utilization for an extended period of time.

OpenView can do this but you will probably need Glance/MWA (another extra cost product) to determine the reason(s) for the load.

> 7. Any other abnormal/critical events affecting system performance/operation

Not defined in a meaningful way.

All of the above requirements are the responsibility of a well-trained and experienced system administrator. By spending a LOT of money for monitoring products, you may in time be able to eliminate the need for a real system administrator, but just make sure that no changes can be made to the system (no new disks or other peripherals, no patches, no changes to the applications, etc).


Bill Hassell, sysadmin
Yogeeraj_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

Hi Rana,

You may create a mailling list in /etc/aliases and that will address mutliple recipients.

e.g.
myalias: user1@mydomain.mu,user2@mydomain.mu

then run monconfig and set the email to sysadmins - myalias.

see also the User Guide: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/diag.html#EMS%20Hardware%20Monitors

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeeraj
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave (clavin coolidge)
rana786
Regular Advisor

Re: Tool for diagnosing hp-unix system

It's ok.
Walker_dhk