Using Event Monitoring Tools
Event monitoring involves generating notification messages as soon as faults and other interesting conditions are detected. This is unlike UNIX commands, which report status information only when asked. You can configure event monitors to generate an event when a change in status occurs or when a predefined threshold condition has been met. Some event monitors generate events when faults or errors occur at the disk device level.
Several monitors discussed in this section are integrated into the Event Monitoring Service (EMS) framework. The EMS framework, available only on HP-UX systems, enables monitors to be provided in a consistent manner for a system. Whereas the EMS framework itself is freely available, the monitors ...
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