HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider Release Notes (5900-2055, March 2012)

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This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider,
which is supported on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems.
Table 1 (page 4) lists the product versions for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation Support for SCSI provider
VersionOperating system
B.11.31.1203HP-UX 11i v3
This document addresses the following topics:
• “Announcement” (page 4)
• “HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider” (page 4)
• “Installing HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider” (page 5)
• “Defects fixed in the version” (page 6)
• “Known problems, workarounds, and limitations” (page 7)
• “Related documentation” (page 7)
• “Software availability in native languages” (page 8)
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 SCSI 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 LAN provider
• HP-UX WBEM DAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree Indication provider
HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider
The SCSI provider enables WBEM client applications to retrieve information about SCSI HBAs,
such as maximum data width, chip type, and maximum transfer rate on the system.
The features of SCSI provider are described below:
• Supports Instance provider feature
This feature provides information about SCSI-HBA subsystem in the managed node.
• Supports SCSI-CSP feature
This feature reports the overall health status of the SCSI subsystem in the managed node.
• Reports data for the subsystem.
• Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide web access to HP-UX data for management clients.
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