Event Monitoring Service

The Event Monitoring Service (EMS) is a monitoring framework for HP-UX. It provides a common interface for monitor configuration and event notification. Using the EMS developer's kit, monitors are developed in a common way. Although the framework itself is freely available, some EMS monitors are sold separately, shipped with the products they support, or bundled with the system.

EMS monitors provide help primarily with fault and resource management. Performance monitoring generally requires more sophisticated tools. Some system fault and resource monitoring capabilities are provided by the HA Monitors product and EMS Hardware Monitors. Other EMS monitors enable you to detect when you are getting low on system resources, ...

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