HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes

General System Administration
System Fault Management
Chapter 5
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System Fault Management
System Fault Management (SFM) is a collection of tools used to monitor the health of HP
servers and receive information about hardware such as memory, CPU, power supplies,
and cooling devices. SFM operates in the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
environment.
Summary of Change
• The following new providers are introduced in this release:
— Management Processor Instance Provider
— Disk Instance Provider
— Firmware Revision Instance Provider
— Onboard Administrator (OA) Instance Provider
•On Itanium-based systems, you can choose to use the SFMIndicationProvider
instead of the following EMS Hardware Monitors:
— cmc_em
— cpe_em
— memory_ia64
— ia64_corehw
— fpl_em
•On Itanium-based systems, the SFMIndicationProvider generates WBEM
indications related to the following:
— Temperature problems
— Fan failures or performance problems
— Power supply problems
— Power unit problems
— Corrected Machine Checks (CMCs)
— Corrected Platform Errors (CPEs)
— System memory
• On PA-RISC-based systems, you can choose to use the SFMIndicationProvider
instead of the following EMS Hardware Monitors:
— IPMI Forward Progress Log Monitor (fpl_em)
— Itanium Core Hardware Monitor (ia64_corehw)
• On PA-RISC-based systems, the SFMIndicationProvider generates WBEM
indications related to the following:
— Temperature problems
— Fan failures or performance problems