HP-UX WBEM DAS Provider release notes (5900-1778, September 2011)

NOTE: The Indication provider feature is not supported for LUNs.
• Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide Web access to HP-UX data for management clients.
• Used by HP Software Management clients, HP System Insight Manager (SIM), HP System
Management HomePage (SMH), and others.
• Supports WBEM services A.02.07 or later security features to control access to HP-UX data.
• Supports disk health test. For more information about the test, see HP-UX ProviderSvcsBase
administrator guide available at: http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-docs.
What's New in This Release
DASProvider has been enhanced to support indications for errors logged by esctl and esdisk
drivers. Indications generated for errors logged by esctl driver are generated by
HPUXESCSIIndicationProvider.
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.
Installing HP-UX WBEM DAS Provider
The latest WBEM DAS provider depot is available for download on the OE media. It is also
available on the Web for download at: http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/
displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=WBEMP-Storage.
The product depot can also be downloaded from the mega bundle available at the following
location: http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?
productNumber=DiagProdCollection.
For more information on installing the providers, see the Website at: http://h20392.www2.hp.com/
portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=WBEMP-Storage
Hardware Requirements and OS Support
Table 2 and Table 3 list the OS and platform support information for the DAS provider.
Table 2 DAS Provider OS Requirement
Mode of DeliverySupported OSProduct NameProvider
ISUHP-UX 11i v3WBEMP-StorageDAS Provider
Table 3 DAS Provider Supported Platforms
Supported PlatformsProduct NameProvider
HP 9000 serversWBEMP-StorageDAS Provider
• rp3410
• rp3440
• rp4410
• rp4440
• rp7405
• rp7410
• rp7420
• rp8400
• rp8420
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