HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes (5900-2526, March 2013)

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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.12.00.08.01HP-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 is new in this release
• The common location /var/opt/psb/diags, is provided for easier management of
configuration and log files of the following diagnostics providers: DASProvider,
FCProvider, IOTreeProvider, LANProvider, RAIDSAProvider, SASProvider,
and SFMProvider.
• Support for configuring the storage space for the oserrlogd log file is provided. The new
configuration parameter, FM_LOGGING_FILE_SIZE, can be configured to required storage
space.
Defect fixes
• QXCR1001191632
Problem: The psb_oserrlogd.log file has incorrect permissions. The file in /var/opt/
psb/log had the mode set to "s".
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