SFM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011

• SFM is enhanced to send a separate DPR event for each deactivated core.
• sfmconfig -w -e/s is enhanced to display proper messages during switch modes (for
example, from root user to non-root user environment)
• Improved navigation in FPL events page with cross-links for related pages.
• WHAT string is introduced in all the UI component binaries for the following components:
SFM (CPU and Memory healthtest)◦
◦ System Management Plus (ALL)
◦ PSB (Health components)
WHAT string ensures to display the versions of the specified products.
• SFM provides a way to view the memory error information observed on the system.
• Evweb is enhanced to write more details into syslog for events encountered in the user system.
• The Japanese "custom solution" that user inputs through GUI can be displayed correctly in
SJIS, utf8, and eucJPthrough CLI and GUI.
• UI is enhanced to check and display the physical location decoded from provider side instead
of performing the decoding itself on NGIS systems.
• The raw data displayed by Evweb logviewer is not useful for users. The error details message
is changed to "Raw log entry for log ID 9060 is obtained by using evweb logviewer -E
-r -i xxxx" command.
• Evweb is enhanced to display HWPhysicalLocation for FCProvider.
• SFM is enhanced to provide improved processor cache error handling on BL860c i2 / BL870c
i2 / BL890c i2 and rx2800 i2. From HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 release, the threshold value
of SFM deconfigures processor cores/sockets which has been changed from 10 to 50.
• Evweb logviewer handles getInstance() exception. While handling evweb logviewer
-L, Evweb gets detailed data by calling getInstance() from providers. While there are
more than two instances having the same LogIndex, if one of the getInstance() throws
an exception, logviewer will not call the other getInstance() and display valid data, which
will hamper evweb logviwer -L command.
Supported EMS Hardware Monitors
SFM is the default monitoring mode. However, you can switch to the OnlineDiag monitoring mode.
For information on how to switch to the OnlineDiag mode, see the SFM Administrator's Guide at
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-diagnostics-docs
NOTE: OnlineDiag monitoring mode is not supported on "HP Integrity BL860c i2, BL870c i2 &
BL890c i2 Server Blades," rx2800 i2 and "HP Integrity Superdome 2". Therefore, switching
between modes will not be available on these HP Integrity Server Blades.
The Event Monitoring Service (EMS) Wrapper Provider receives events generated by the EMS
Hardware Monitors. The following EMS Hardware Monitors are supported on HP 9000 servers
running the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system:
• LPMC (now CPU) (lpmc_em)
• Memory (dm_memory)
• Core HW (dm_core_hw)
• Chassis Code (dm_chassis)
• IPMI Forward Progress Log Monitor (fpl_em)
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