HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes (September 2013)

1 LAN provider release notes for September 2013 release
This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM LAN provider, which
is supported on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems.
Table 1 Documentation support for LAN provider
VersionOperating system
B.11.31.1309.06.01HP-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 LAN 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 Fibre Channel provider
• HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider
• HP-UX WBEM SAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM DAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree indication provider
• HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider
HP-UX WBEM LAN provider
HP-UX WBEM LAN provider is used by client applications to retrieve information about LAN cards
present on the system. Using this provider, the WBEM clients can retrieve details about various
attributes of a LAN card.
The features of LAN provider are described below:
• 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 Consolidated Status Provider (CSP) feature on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2 and
HP-UX 11i v3 OS. This feature reports the consolidated status of LAN cards available on the
system.
• Supports Indication Provider (IP) feature on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3
OS. This feature generates indications in WBEM format and delivers the events to the cimserver.
What is new in this release
• After enabling the HPUXLANProviderModule, the first time requests of
enumerateInstance/getInstance/enumerateInstanceNames on LANProvider instance classes
does not fail with the following error:
Announcement 5