Administrator's and User's Guide for SFM HP-UX 11i v3 April 2010

Table 1-2 Indication Providers (continued)
DescriptionIndication Provider
The SFMIndicationProvider generates indications that are
compliant with the WBEM standards. On HP Integrity systems,
it replaces the following EMS monitors:
• cmc_em
• cpe_em
• memory_ia64
• fpl_em
• ia64_corehw
On HP 9000 systems, it replaces the following EMS monitors:
• fpl_em
• ia64_corehw
You can choose to use either the SFMIndicationProvider or the
EMS monitors that it replaces, to monitor your hardware. The
remaining EMS monitors continue to function as usual
irrespective of whether you choose the SFMIndicationProvider
or the EMS monitors that it replaces. If you choose the
SFMIndicationProvider, it does the following:
1. Generates WBEM indications equivalent to the events that
the monitors it replaces generate.
2. Reports these WBEM indications to the CIMOM.
In the WBEM indication details, the provider name displayed
corresponds with the device to which the indication is related.
For example, if the name of the provider displayed in the event
details is MemoryIndicationProviderIA, the event is related
to memory. For a complete list of the names of providers
displayed in the WBEM indication details, in the SFM mode, see
Table 4-2 (page 43). The provider names indicate the device to
which the event is related.
For a list of WBEM indications and their details, see the SFM
Event Descriptions at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/diag/sfm/sfm_summ.htm
SFMIndicationProvider
The MCA Indication Provider generates an indication when
Machine Check Abort (MCA) logs are present due to an MCA.
MCA Indication Provider
NOTE: The following apply to indication providers:
• The terms events and indications are used interchangeably.
• Although both EMS Wrapper Provider and EVM CIM Provider generate events related to
system hardware, the nature of events are different.
Support for CPUIndicationProvider and MemoryIndicationProvider has been added with
additional support for hardware events on HP Integrity BL860c i2, BL870c i2 & BL890c i2 Server
Blades. For the listing of new events reported by SFM on these Indication Providers, see the SFM
Event Descriptions.
CIMOM identifies the SFM providers using SFMProviderModule. If a provider is not working
properly, SFMProviderModule stops all the SFM providers.
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