HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication Provider Release Notes (5900-2050, March 2012)

HP-UX WBEM IOTree indication provider
The IOTree Indication provider (IOTree-IP) generates indications when certain events occur in the
PCI I/O subsystem. This provider generates the following indications:
• Slot Occupied
• Slot Emptied
• Slot Power Off
• Slot Power On
• Slot Driver Suspended
• Slot Driver Resumed
The IOTree indication provider supports the following features:
• Supports Consolidated Status provider (CS provider). This provider displays consolidated
status of the PCI I/O subsystem.
• 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 System Insight Manager (SIM), HP System
Management HomePage (SMH), and others.
• Supports WBEM 2.5 services security features to control access to HP-UX data.
• Supports Indication Provider (IP) feature on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3
OS. This feature generates indication in WBEM format and delivers the events to cimserver.
NOTE: The IOTree indication provider does not support the guests of HP-UX Virtual Partitions 6.x
What's new in this release
From March 2012 release, I/O providers except WBEMP-LAN provider,WBEMP-FCP Instance
and CSP will not run on the guest of Virtual Partitions 6.x with the following failure message:
Provider is not supported on HP Virtual Machine and Virtual Partition
This message is also displayed in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file as
HPUX:IOTreeIndicationProviderModule:enableIndications: Provider is not
supported on HP Virtual Machine and Virtual Partition.
For information about previous release defect fixes, see “Defects fixed in the version” (page 7).
Installing HP-UX IOTree indication provider
The latest WBEM IOTree indication provider depot is available for download on the OE media.
It is also available on the Web for download at: http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/
management/hpsim/dl_hpux.html#managed
For more information on installing the providers, see the website at: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/
portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=WBEMP-IOTreeIP
Hardware requirements and OS support
Table 2 lists the platform support information for the IOTree indication provider
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