SFM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1 March 2012

• Product documentation
• Software and documentation availability in native languages
• Product structure
• Reporting defects
SFM providers
SFM providers are tools that gather information related to various hardware devices and report
to the Common Interface Model Object Manager (CIMOM).
Following lists the SFM providers, and their respective functions:
FunctionsProviders
Retrieves information about processor inventory and
consolidated health of the processor subsystem
CPU Instance Provider
Gathers information about memory inventory and
consolidated health of the memory subsystem
Memory Instance Provider
Translates events generated by the EMS Hardware Monitors
into indications and reports those indications to the CIMOM
EMS Wrapper Provider
Provides the facility to predefine the important filter in a
repository. FMD also ensures that all important or chosen
Filter Metadata (FMD) Provider
indications are logged to the local event archive. FMD
creates HP-advised subscriptions when SFM is installed.
Retrieve information about cooling devices (fans) and
power supply (bulk power supply and AC input lines) on
Environmental Providers
HP servers. They also retrieve consolidated health of
cooling, power, system temperature, and system voltage
subsystems on HP servers.
Retrieves information about firmware revision of system
hardware components, such as system firmware version
and Management Processor (MP) firmware version
Firmware Revision Instance Provider
Retrieves information about the consolidated health status
and inventory information of direct attached disk drives,
such as SCSI drives
Disk Instance Provider
Retrieves information about the management processor of
the system
MP Instance Provider
The Management Processor Instance Provider is available
on PA-RISC-based systems that support IPMI. However, the
Management Processor Instance Provider
IPMI driver must support the IPMI commands for the MP
Instance Provider to retrieve information about the
management processor.
The Firmware Revision Instance Provider is also available
on PA-RISC-based systems that support the Intelligent
Platform Management Interface (IPMI).
Firmware Revision Instance Provider
Note: SFM is compliant with vPars A.03.04
Supported EMS hardware monitors
The following Event Monitoring Service (EMS) monitors are supported by SFM on PA-RISC-based
servers running the HP-UX 11i v1 operating system:
• LPMC (now CPU) (lpmc_em)
• Memory (dm_memory)
• Core HW (dm_core_hw)
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