HP-UX SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) Administrator Guide (762798-001, March 2014)

Contents
HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................8
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
Overview................................................................................................................................9
Features and benefits..............................................................................................................10
Components of SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM)..................................................11
EVWEB............................................................................................................................11
EMT.................................................................................................................................11
CIMUtil............................................................................................................................11
IPMI event viewer...............................................................................................................11
Providers...........................................................................................................................11
Instance providers.........................................................................................................11
Indication providers.......................................................................................................14
User interfaces.......................................................................................................................18
HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager).......................................................................................19
HP SMH (System Management Homepage)...........................................................................19
Architecture...........................................................................................................................19
2 Installing SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) software................21
Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................21
On web................................................................................................................................21
Installing SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) software from the media........................22
Installing using the TUI........................................................................................................22
Installing using the CLI........................................................................................................25
Installing SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) software from the web...........................26
On web............................................................................................................................26
Installing and upgrading products from the bundle.................................................................26
Verifying the installation..........................................................................................................27
Verifying the installation using the TUI...................................................................................27
Verifying the installation using the CLI...................................................................................28
Removing SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) software.............................................29
Removing the software using the TUI.....................................................................................29
Removing the software using the CLI.....................................................................................32
Verifying removal of SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) software...............................33
Verifying removal using the TUI............................................................................................33
Verifying removal using the CLI............................................................................................33
3 Configuring indication providers.................................................................34
Configuring indication filters....................................................................................................34
Configuring error logging in SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM)................................35
Configuring the monitoring mode.............................................................................................35
4 Administering indications and instances using HP SIM..................................37
Creating subscriptions and viewing indications using HP SIM ......................................................37
Creating subscriptions........................................................................................................37
Viewing Indications............................................................................................................42
Viewing instances...................................................................................................................48
5 SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) support for different virtualization
environments...............................................................................................50
Introduction to various virtualization environments.......................................................................50
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.x (referred as vPar Guest and VM Guest).................................50
Inventory handling........................................................................................................50
Indication handling.......................................................................................................50
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