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

Table 7 EMS, WBEM, and Evweb events severity values (continued)

Evweb severityWBEM severityEMS severity

7 Critical6 Critical4 Serious

7 Critical7 Fatal/Non-recoverable5 Critical

NOTE:

• Perceived severities in Syslog is same as WBEM severities.

• The WBEM severities are standard. Their number can be seen as the severity value for the

actual events recorded in /var/opt/sfm/log/event.log. The Evweb severity numbering

matches the HP SMH system status. It is one number more than the WBEM severity. However,

HP SMH uses the corresponding severity strings to display the system status, Therefore the

severity string is more important than the severity number.

• Evweb is a plug -in in HP SMH, it adapts Evweb severity to HP SMH. The WBEM severities

description is different from Evweb severities description. The following are the differences in

mapping reasons:

◦ "Fatal/Non-recoverable” in WBEM is regarded as “Critical” in Evweb.

◦ "Unknown" in WBEM means that WBEM can get the status of event/entity, and it is NOT

other errors (like, Fatal), so Evweb regards it as “Normal”.

◦ "NA" in WBEM means that WBEM cannot get the status of event/entity, so Evweb regards

it as "Unknown".

• Table 8 (page 45) describes about each WBEM severity in detail.

Table 8 WBEM severities

Description of the severityWBEM severities

The AlertIndication severity is simply unknown.Unknown0

The Severity value can be found in the OtherSeverity

property.

Other1

The AlertIndication is purely informational.Information2

You should determine if action is needed.Degraded/

Warning

Your action is needed, but the situation is not serious at

this time.

Minor4

Your action is needed NOW.Major5

Your action is needed NOW and the scope is broad

(perhaps an imminent outage to a critical resource will

result).

Critical6

An error occurred, but it's too late to take remedial

action.

Fatal/

NonRecoverable

In SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) mode although the SFMIndicationProvider

is generating the events, the name of the provider displayed in the event details is one of the

following providers mentioned under provider in Table 4–2, depending on the device to which

Creating subscriptions and viewing indications using HP SIM 45