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

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for different virtualization environments
This chapter discusses about the following topics:
• “Introduction to various virtualization environments” (page 50)
• “Summary of various virtualization environments” (page 51)
Introduction to various virtualization environments
This section describes about the support and behavior of SysFaultMgmt (System Fault
Management) (SFM) on different virtualized environments. Following are the most relevant use
cases of virtualized environment:
• “HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.x (referred as vPar Guest and VM Guest)” (page 50)
• “HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) (referred as Legacy vPars)” (page 51)
• “Integrity Virtual Machine (VM) 4.x (referred as HPVM)” (page 51)
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.x (referred as vPar Guest and VM Guest)
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.x are also referred as vPar Guest and VM Guest respectively. For
the ease of user benefit and understanding, HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.x are mentioned as
vPar Guest and VM Guest respectively, in this document.
Inventory handling
HP–UX 11i v3 vPar Guest and VM Guest support only HP_ComputerSystemChassis and
HP_ComputerSystemPackage inventory classes. Both vPar Guest and VM Guest do not support
inventory classes.
When requested to enumerate any non-supported inventory classes, SysFaultMgmt (System Fault
Management) (SFM) throws an error message: “CIM_ERR_NOT_SUPPORTED: This operation is
not supported on this configuration”.
Indication handling
vPar Guest supports both FPL and SEL02 indications, whereas VM Guest supports only FPL. The
Admin user must check the Virtualization Services Platform (VSP) for all other reported events.
Error log processing on a 6.x (vPar/VM) Guest
SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) acts as a passive component, where most of
its functions are delegated to the instances on VSP. The Diagnostic Agent (diagtxtd) available
in 6.x Guest (both vPar and VM) is responsible for collecting all the error logs (/var/opt/psb/
oselog) and it sends the same to VSP over virtual IPMI channel provided by HPVM.
SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) instance at VSP starts processing the received
error data and generates the required event, if qualified.
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