HP-UX WBEM SAS Provider Release Notes (766963-001, March 2014)

1 SAS provider release notes for March 2014 release
This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM SAS provider, which
is supported on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 Itanium-based systems. Table 1 (page 5) lists
the product versions for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation support for SAS 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 SAS 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 FC (Fibre-Channel) provider
• HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider
• HP-UX WBEM LAN provider
• HP-UX WBEM DAS (Direct Attached Storage) provider
HP-UX WBEM SAS provider
HP-UX WBEM SAS provider is used by client applications to retrieve information about SAS HBAs
present on the system. Using this provider, the WBEM clients can retrieve details about various
attributes of SAS HBAs. The features of SAS 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 SIM (System Insight Manager), HP SMH (System
Management Home Page), and others.
• Supports WBEM 2.5 services security features to control access to HP-UX data.
• Provides consolidated status of SAS HBAs present on the system using SAS-CS provider.
• 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.
What's new in this release
There are no new features for the current release.
For information about defects fixed in various versions, see “Defects fixed in various versions”
(page 8).
Installing the HP-UX WBEM SAS provider
The WBEM SAS provider depot is available for download on the OE media and web. Starting
from HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 release, all the products namely ProviderSvcsBase (PSB),
SysFaultMgmt (SFM) (System Fault Management), the I/O Providers namely HP-UX WBEM
RAIDSA Provider, HP-UX WBEM SAS provider, HP-UX WBEM FC (Fibre-Channel) Provider, HP-UX
Announcement 5