Disable EMS for tape libraries

[Stijn V]

I do want to disable EMS for my SAN tape drive on HP-UX 11.23 but I do not have the following file:
/var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_stape.cfg (0 to stop the monitor from polling).

I disabled the EMS monitoring my SAN tape drives like this:

/var/stm/data/tools/monitor/disabled_instances

added:
/storage/events/tapes/SCSI_tape/*
/storage/events/tapes/default/0_1_2_0.2.14.255.0.0.0
/storage/events/tapes/default/0_1_2_0.2.14.255.0.0.1
/storage/events/tapes/default/0_6_1_0.1.14.255.0.0.1
/storage/events/tapes/default/0_6_1_0.1.14.255.0.0.2

But this doesn't help! If I disconnect a the tape drive, I still receive EMS messages about the tape device....

Anyone any idea? Thanks....

[Richard Bickers · Accepted solution]

Hi. I sent this question into the lab to see if they could help...

Here's the response:

When changes are made to var/stm/data/tools/monitor/disabled_instances file, the user should run monconfig with option "e", enable monitoring to have them take effect.

This should get you what you need.

They also gave me this:

If the customer doesn't want the monitor to be active at all we unfortunatly do not have selective disable/enable of monitor in OnlineDiag.

Follow the following steps to disable the monitor completely.
1. Create the directory /var/stm/data/Archive directory if it does not exist.
2. Stop the monitoring process using the monconfig utility
# /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig
Option 'k' to kill monitoring process
3. Move these files to /var/stm/data/Archive directory
# mv /etc/opt/resmon/dictionary/dm_stape.dict /var/stm/data/Archive/
# mv /var/stm/config/tools/monitor/default_dm_stape.clcfg /var/stm/data/Archive/
# mv /var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_stape.cfg /var/stm/data/Archive/
# mv /var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_stape.psmcfg /var/stm/data/Archive/
# mv /var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_stape.sapcfg /var/stm/data/Archive/
4. Start the monitoring process using the monconfig utility
# /etc/opt/resmon/lbin/monconfig
Option 'e' to enable monitoring process.

If customer wants to revert back again, then just move the files from Archive folder back to relevent places.

Hope this helps. Richard.

[Stijn V]

Ok thanks, I will try it.

[Stijn V]

I didn't tried it yet, because I already modified the following and it seems to work fine:

I didn't had the file
/var/stm/config/tools/monitor/dm_stape.cfg

But it exists under the archive folder: /var/stm/data/Archive

I copied that one ine place and set the polling interval to 0