HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes (766965-001, March 2014)

Known problems, workaround, and limitations
Known problems
The following known problems are tabulated from previous releases:
Problem:
There are no email alerts for the subscription.
Description:
User do not receive email alerts for existing and new email subscriptions due to database
authorization issue in September 2011 release.
Workaround:
There is no workaround for this problem.
Limitation
Following are the limitations of LAN provider:
LAN is a read-only provider and hence does not allow users to modify, create, or delete
instances.
In LANInstanceProvider a new error has been introduced. If during instance
(enumerateInstance/getInstance/enumearateInstanceNames)request the
provider is busy retrieving the properties of CIMInstance classes then it will report an error
called CIM_ERR_FAILED: enumerateInstances:: Internal error occurred while building the LAN
inventory.
When LANInstanceProvider gets disabled and enabled manually (cimprovider -dm/-em)
then after getting enabled, for the first instance request the following error can be seen.
CIM_ERR_FAILED: enumerateInstances:: Internal error occurred while building the LAN inventory
When LANIndicationProvider is running, any instance request issued in 10 minutes (maximum)
after the LANInstanceProvider gets enabled will not report the above mentioned error.
When LANIndicationProvider is not running, only the first instance request will fail with the
above mentioned error. The subsequent instance requests will pass without any fail.
If the LANInstanceProvider on the vPars/HPVM 6.1 or later guest is disabled, the vPars/HPVM
6.1 or later host (VSP) shows the guest related information for a maximum 70 minutes. After
that instance request on host will not show the guest owned DIO functions until maximum of
60 minutes after the provider gets enabled again.
If the vPars/HPVM 6.1 or later guest system is shutdown then the guest DIO function might
be seen in the instance request output for a maximum time of 10 minutes. After that no DIO
functions for the turned off guest will be seen for that guest until the guest is not turned on
again.
The LANIndication provider in its event details related to DIO functions displays system name
up to a maximum of 64 characters for vPars/HPVM 6.1 or later guest systems. Longer
hostnames for the guest will be truncated to 64 characters.
Related documentation
Table 18 (page 12) lists the available documentation for the WBEM providers:
Table 18 WBEM provider related documents
LocationDescription
http://www.dmtf.org/standards/cimCIM Tutorial
http://software.hp.com and http://www.hp.com.Information about HP WBEM Services
12 LAN provider release notes for March 2014 release