HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes (5900-1462, March 2011)

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This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase™ product,
which is supported on HP-UX 11i v3 operating system. Table 1 (page 4) lists the product versions
for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation Support for ProviderSvcsBase
VersionOperating System
C.05.00HP-UX 11i v3
Announcement
The ProviderSvcsBase™ product provides functionality to support WBEM providers delivered in
other product bundles, like SysFaultMgmt™ bundle and ProviderDefault™ bundle. The
ProviderSvcsBase™ product support the following functionalities:
• Reads MCA logs from EFI disks.
• Reads firmware and hardware error logs.
• Infrastructure for running health tests.
Provides an infrastructure to include health tests for system devices.◦
◦ The infrastructure supports both CLI and SMH GUI interface to run, configure, and view
the system device health test validation.
Health Test
This product supports the following features on HP-UX 11i v3 OS:
• Provides an infrastructure to include health tests for system devices. Infrastructure of the current
version of the product supports CPU health validation, Memory health validation, and Directly
attached disk health validation.
• The infrastructure supports both CLI and SMH GUI interface to run, configure, and view the
system device health test validation.
For more information about running, configuring, and viewing the test results, see the HP-UX
ProviderSvcsBase Administrator's Guide available at the following location:
http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.html#Online%20Diagnostics
What's New in This Release
In the current release, the -timer option (captioned as Duration in GUI) is enhanced to indicate
the duration of the health test to be run on the system resource, such as CPU, memory, or disk.
Installing HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase
The latest ProviderSvcsBase™ depot is available for download on the OE media.
For more information on installing and configuring these products, see the HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase
Administrator's Guide available at the following location: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/diag.html
Hardware Requirements
Currently, this product is supported on all HP Integrity systems.
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