HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase Release Notes, September 2010

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, health test command line enables -runtest and -runtest -a commands
to support the following options:
• -loop
• -timer
• -log
• -error
• -stress
As the health test command, part of diaglogd daemon (in the OnlineDiag bundle) will be
obsoleted, similar functionality will be supported by the health test command provided by the
oserrlogd daemon.
For more information about the listed options supported in the current release, see HP-UX
ProviderSvcsBase Administrator's Guide under Running Health Test in PSB Using CLI section.
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