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ems(5)									ems(5)

NAME
       ems - Description of Event Monitoring Service (EMS)

DESCRIPTION
       is a monitoring service that polls a system resource and sends messages
       when events occur. An is something you want to know about. For example,
       you  may	 want  to  be  alerted when a disk goes down or when available
       filesystem space falls below a certain level. EMS allows you to config‐
       ure  what  you  consider	 an event for any given system resource (disk,
       filesystem space, network interfaces).

       The advantage EMS has over built-in monitors is that  requests  can  be
       made to send events to a wide variety of software using multiple proto‐
       cols (opcmsg, SNMP, TCP, UDP).

       EMS consists of three components:

       The framework starts and stops the monitors, stores information used by
       the  monitors,  directs	monitors  where to send events. This framework
       consists of the Registrar, the resource dictionary, and the EMS API.

       A standard API provides a way to plug in new monitors  as  they	become
       available,  or  to  write  your own monitors; see the document "Writing
       Monitors for the Event Monitoring Service  (EMS)"  available  from  the
       high-availability web site: "http://www.hp.com/go/ha".

       are  applications  written  to gather and report information about spe‐
       cific resources on the system. When you make a request to a monitor, it
       polls  the  system  information	and  sends a message to the framework,
       which then interprets the data to determine if an  event	 has  occurred
       and sends messages in the appropriate format.

       A  set  of monitors are shipped with EMS: disk, cluster, network inter‐
       face, and system resource monitors.

       Runs under SAM (System Administration Manager).

EMS Directories and Files
       EMS files live in and The following  is	a  description	of  files  and
       directories that might help you as you navigate through EMS.

       A file that sets the restart interval for monitor persistence.

       A  directory  that contains resource dictionaries for the various moni‐
       tors. The disk monitor resources are listed in and  the	cluster,  net‐
       work,  and system resource monitors are in the If you were writing your
       own monitor, the dictionary would go in this directory.

       A directory where all the monitor daemons live. Some important  daemons
       in the directory:

       restarts any failed monitors based on information in the file

       handles	passing monitoring requests to the correct monitors, and send‐
       ing qualify events out in the correct protocol format.

       A directory of log files used by EMS. The most  interesting  for	 trou‐
       bleshooting are:

       stores api calls made by monitors.

       stores calls made by clients, such as MC/ServiceGuard or the SAM inter‐
       face to EMS.

       A command that lists the latest polled status of the specified resource
       on a specified system.

AUTHOR
       EMS was developed by Hewlett-Packard.

SEE ALSO
       diskmond(1m), resls(1), emscli(1m)

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