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

1 FC (Fibre-Channel) provider release notes for March 2014
release
This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM FC (Fibre-Channel)
provider, which is supported on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems.
Table 1 (page 5) lists the product versions for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation Support for FC (Fibre-Channel) provider
VersionOperating system
B.11.31.1403.05.01HP-UX 11i v3
Announcement
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is an industry wide initiative to unify the management
of system, networks, and applications across multiple and diverse vendor environments. The WBEM
clients use the mass storage providers to gather information about various subsystems. The WBEM
standard enables the WBEM clients to subscribe to indications, and indication consumers to receive
indications on the occurrence of events of interest on the managed system. This release supports
HP-UX WBEM FC (Fibre-Channel) provider which is part of a suite of Mass Storage IO WBEM
providers. The other providers in this suite supported in the current release are:
• HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider
• HP-UX WBEM SAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM DAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM LAN provider
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree indication provider
• HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider
HP-UX WBEM FC (Fibre-Channel) provider
The provider enables WBEM client applications to retrieve information about the FC (Fibre-Channel)
host-bus adapters (FC-HBA) on the system.
The features of FCProvider are described below:
• Supports Instance provider feature.
This feature provides information about FC (Fibre-Channel) subsystem in the managed node.
• Supports Consolidated Status provider (FC-CSP) feature.
This feature reports the overall health status of the FC (Fibre-Channel) subsystem in the managed
node.
• Supports indication provider (FC-IP) feature.
This feature generates indications whenever the events of interest occur in the FC (Fibre-Channel)
subsystems.
• Reports data for the subsystem.
• Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide Web access to HP-UX data for management clients.
• Used by HP Software Management clients, HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager), HP SMH
(System Management Homepage), and others.
• Supports WBEM 2.5 services security features to control access to HP-UX data.
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