HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Provider Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-1991 Published: September 2011
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Contents 1 HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider release notes..........................4 Announcement.........................................................................................................................4 HP-UX WBEM DAS Provider.......................................................................................................4 What's New in This Release......................................................................................................
1 HP-UX WBEM Direct Attached Storage Provider release notes This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM DAS provider, which is supported on HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems. Table 1 (page 4) lists the product version for which the document is applicable. Table 1 Documentation Support for DAS Provider Operating System Version HP-UX 11i v3 B.11.31.1109.06.
• Supports Indication Provider (IP) feature This feature generates indications in WBEM format and delivers the events to the cimserver. 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.
Table 3 DAS Provider Supported Platforms (continued) Provider Product Name Supported Platforms • rp4410 • rp4440 • rp7405 • rp7410 • rp7420 • rp8400 • rp8420 • SD16, SD32, SD64 • SD16A, SD32A, SD64A • SD16B, SD32B, SD64B HP Legacy Integrity servers • cx2600 • cx2620 • rx1600 • rx1620 • rx2600 • rx2620 • rx2660 • rx3600 • rx4640 • rx5670 • rx6600 • rx7620 • rx7640 • rx8620 • rx8640 • SD16A, SD32A, SD64A • SD16B, SD32B, SD64B • BL60p HP Server Blade • BL860c HP Server Blade • BL870c HP Server Blade NOTE: Wr
Table 5 DAS Provider Software Requirement for PA-RISC system Product Product Version WBEM Services A.02.09 SysMgmtPlus A.01.00 OnlineDiag B.11.31.06.05 EMS-Core A.04.00.01 NOTE: Fibre-Channel Indication provider monitors DAS hardware indications on HP-UX 11i v2 OS, so Fibre-Channel Indication provider must be installed to monitor DAS indications on HP-UX 11i v2 OS. Disk Space Requirement Table 6 lists the disk space requirement for the DAS provider.
Table 7 Defects Fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID QXCR1000958375 Description In the previous release, the status of LUNs in the SMH page are displayed as degraded even when the status of LUNs are not degraded. In the current release, this defect is fixed and the LUN status is displayed appropriately in the SMH page. Defect Fix in version B.11.31.1003.01 QXCR1000952059 DAS Provider reports information only for disks attached in the system.
Table 7 Defects Fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID QXCR1000992649 Description In the previous release, when the evweb logviewer command is run on the new Integrity platform, the Sense code and Information field values of the Native Indication provider are displayed in integer format. These values must be displayed in Hexadecimal format.
Table 7 Defects Fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID QXCR1001056641 Description In the previous release on BL870c i2 platform, whenever events generated by the native indication provider is logged in the provider database, a record ID is associated with the logged record. To access or retrieve this record, the getInstance method is supplied with the specific record ID. If the record ID is not available in the provider database, the provider dumps core. This defect is fixed in the current release.
Table 7 Defects Fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID QXCR1001075851 Description In the previous release, the HPUXStorageNativeProviderModule leaks memory, on legacy Integrity and BL870c i2 platforms, when the module receives an evm notification about the IO subsystem status change. This defect is fixed in the current release. Defects Fixed in version B.11.31.1103.15 QXCR1001103562 In the previous release, after reinserting an internal disk , the CIMUtil does not show the disk details.
Table 7 Defects Fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID QXCR1001097747 Description In the previous release, the HPUXStorageNativeIndicationProviderModule does not support event 15 on legacy Integrity and BL870c i2 platforms. In the current release, the HPUXStorageNativeIndicationProviderModule supports event 15 on legacy Integrity and BL870c i2 platforms.
Table 7 Defects Fixed in HP-UX 11i v3 OS (continued) Defect ID Description QXCR1001124484 In the previous release, the memory leak is seen in DiskPollerJob.cpp:performPolling() function. Delete in two return paths were missing for a variable allocated on heap. This defect is fixed in the current release. Changes are made to delete the variable in these two return paths.
HPUXDiskNativeIndicationProvider always natively monitors the hardware and generates WBEM events. The reverse wrapper, DAS_WbemWrapperMonitor, and/or MSA_WbemWrapperMonitor may be launched depending on the connected hardware. These reverse wrappers convert the WBEM event to the corresponding EMS event.
