HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase Administrator Guide, September 2012

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