HP-UX WBEM FC (Fibre-Channel) Provider Release Notes (766962-001, March 2014)

After installation run /opt/fcprovider/bin/FC_Provider_Test -a twice.

• Problem:

When FCProvider B.11.31.1103.14 or later is installed on legacy Integrity systems,

dm_ql_adapter and dm_fclp_adapter are never launched regardless of the diag mode.

HPUXFCNativeIndicationProvider always monitors natively the hardware and generates WBEM

events. The reverse wrapper, FC_Wbemwrapper, may be launched depending on the

connected hardware. This reverse wrapper converts the WBEM event to the corresponding

EMS event.

Description:

The introduction of this native support adds to support the following EMS resource paths:

/adapters/events/ql_wrapper_wbem

/adapters/events/fclp_wrapper_wbem

On the other hand, as the process for dm_ql_adapter and dm_fclp_adapter are never

launched, the corresponding EMS resource paths are not monitored:

/adapters/events/ql_adapter

/adapters/events/fclp_adapter

• The FCIndication provider crashes while upgrading from versions earlier than the March 2012

release. This problem does not occur while upgrading from March 2012 release to any later

releases.

• Problem:

The events are lost when diagnostic products are upgraded on a DRD cloned disk.

Description:

Prior to September 2012 release version of diagnostics product, the postgres 7.4.2 version

was supported. However version 8.4.8 is shipped from September 2012 release. Due to the

missing data compatibility between PostgreSQL version 7.4.2 (prior to September 2012) and

8.4.8 (September 2012 release or later) when diagnostics products are upgraded from prior

to September 2012 release to September 2012 web release and later, the postgres data

need to be migrated to 8.4.8 format. Data migration involves backup in 7.4.2 version using

the pg_dumpall and restore in 8.4.8 version using the psql operations. Both of these operations

requires a running postgres service. But in the DRD environment there is a limitation that no

service can be run on the cloned disk when products are either installed or upgraded. This

limits diagnostics product upgrade steps from taking the backup of the postgres 7.4.2 data.

As a result, the data such as events and error records is lost during such circumstances.

Workaround:

You can select any of the following two alternatives:

1. To install the product on the DRD cloned disk as a normal upgrade scenario. The scenario

will be same as fresh installation and user may refer to event.log for historical event data.

2. To have a seamless migration of the data from postgres 7.4.2 version. In this case, the

user is required to perform the manual steps listed in the Installation scenarios of Postgres

8.4.8 guide at www.hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-sfm-docs.

Limitation

Following is the limitation of FCProvider:

• It is a read-only provider and hence does not allow users to modify, create, or delete instances.