HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5992-5850 Published: March 2009
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Table of Contents 1 HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................6 HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider................................................................................................................7 What's New in This Release.............................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 4 LAN Provider Supported Platform and OS Requirement..............................................................9 LAN Provider Disk Space Requirement.........................................................................................9 WBEM Provider Related Documents............................................................................................
1 HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider Release Notes 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 and addresses the following topics: • • • • • • • “Announcement” (page 6) “HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider” (page 7) “Installing HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider” (page 9) “Defects Fixed in This Version” (page 10) “Known Problems, Workarounds, Limitations” (page 11) “Related Documentation” (page 12) “Localization”
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.
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.
What's New in This Release • • • 8 The LAN Indication provider now delivers indications in the event of Ethernet interface state change. The LAN instance provider will obtain information about HP APAs(link aggregates). The System Management Homepage (SMH) web page display is enhanced to provide detailed information about Ethernet-based LAN cards installed on the system. For more information about the properties displayed, see the Network subsystem on the SMH web page.
Installing HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider The latest WBEM LAN 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 NOTE: The mass storage WBEM providers depot available on the Web does not support CSP and IP features for all the related subsystems. For more information on installing the providers, see the Website at: http://h20293.www2.hp.
Defects Fixed in This Version No defects are fixed in the current release.
Known Problems, Workarounds, Limitations There are no known problems and workarounds in the current release. Following is the limitation of the LAN provider: • LAN is a read-only provider and hence does not allow users to modify, create, or delete instances.
Related Documentation Table 1-3 lists the available documentation for the WBEM providers: Table 1-3 WBEM Provider Related Documents Description CIM Tutorial Location http://www.dmtf.org/education/cimtutorial.php Information about HP WBEM Services http://software.hp.com and http://www.hp.com Overview of the Indication Schema http://www.openpegasus.org/uploads/40/3452/WBEMIndications.
Localization The LAN provider documentation is available in English language only.
