HP B6191-90029 - Manual (Page 39)

Chapter 2
Installing and Using Monitors
Using Hardware Monitoring Requests
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Using Hardware Monitoring Requests
Monitoring requests are used to implement your strategy for monitoring hardware resources. The Hardware
Monitoring Request Manager is the tool you use to create and manage hardware event monitoring requests.
The following procedures describe how to use the Hardware Monitoring Request Manager to perform the
tasks involved in managing monitoring requests for all hardware event monitors.
What Is a Monitoring Request?
A monitoring request is the mechanism by which you manage how hardware event notification takes place.
EMS uses a monitoring request to determine what events should be reported, and what notification method
should be used to report them.
In building a monitoring request, you define the components that comprise the monitoring request. See
Figure 2-2 on page 40.
When building a request you must make the following decisions:
• WHAT hardware should be monitored? This is defined by selecting the monitor responsible for the
hardware resources you want to monitor. You can select multiple monitors for each monitoring request,
which gives you the ability to use a single request for a variety of hardware.
• WHAT events should be reported? Although the monitor can detect all hardware events, you can limit
the events that are reported. This is done by specifying the severity level(s) and an arithmetic operator.
Each severity level is assigned a numeric value to work with the operator (e.g., CRITICAL=5). Together
these settings determine which events to report. For example, you may be interested in all events greater
than or equal to Major Warning (>=MAJOR WARNING).
• HOW will notification be sent? You must select the notification method you want to use when an event
occurs. You may want to use several notification methods, but each method will require its own
monitoring request.
Some Monitoring Request Examples
The following monitoring request applies to all monitors. It sends all events with a severity greater than or
equal to MAJOR WARNING to an email address of [email protected]:
Send events generated by all monitors
with severity >= MAJOR WARNING to EMAIL [email protected]
The following monitoring request sends information events for all monitors to a text log:
Send events generated by all monitors
with severity = INFORMATION to TEXTLOG /var/opt/resmon/log/information.log