HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes (5900-1800, September 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.06.00HP-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://www.hp.com/go/hpux-wbem-docs
What's New in This Release
Starting from HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 release, HP recommends to install all the products
namely ProviderSvcsBase, SysFaultMgmt, the I/O Providers namely HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider,
HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider, HP-UX WBEM Fibre-Channel Provider, HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached
Storage Provider (DASProvider) together to maintain compatibility among the diagnostic products.
Defect Fixes
QXCR1001119104
Problem: The ctrl+m characters are displayed as part of summary in syslog.log.
Resolution: This problem is fixed.
Installing HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase
The latest ProviderSvcsBase depot is available for download on the OE media.
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