HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase Administrator Guide, September 2011

1 Introduction
This chapter introduces the ProviderSvcsBase (PSB) software and its components.
Following are the topics discussed in this chapter:
• Overview
• Features and Benefits
Overview
The ProviderSvcsBase™ software provides functionality to support WBEM providers delivered in
other product bundles, like SysFaultMgmt™ bundle and Providerdefault™ bundle. The PSB™
software operates within the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) environment.
Features and Benefits
The following features are supported by the PSB software:
• Storing error log records — Supports logging of firmware or hardware errors on all HP Integrity
servers running on HP-UX 11i v3 March 2009 or later.
• Infrastructure for Health Tests — Provides an infrastructure for running health tests on CPU,
memory, and directly attached disks available on a system. WBEM Providers can run health
tests from this infrastructure. The health tests of CPU and memory are delivered by the
SysFaultMgmt™ software. Disk health test is delivered by the WBEMP-Storage module.
• postgres database — Enables providers to update, retrieve, and archive events from postgres
database.
Features supported by the PSB™ software can be configured using the SMH GUI or the CLI. For
more information about using the features, see “Using PSB Components” (page 15).
4 Introduction