SFM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013

Table 1 lists the SFM providers, and their respective functions (continued)
FunctionsProviders
Retrieves properties such as the serial number, part number,
version, manufacturer and FRU name.
Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) instance provider
Provides information about fans, power supply, and AC input
lines.
ChassisProvider
Table 2 lists the SFM providers supported on HP Superdome 2, and their respective functions
FunctionsProviders
Available on Blade servers, providing Blade Inventory details
and health status of blades current partition.
BladeProvider and BladeStatusProvider
Retrieves information about processor inventory and
consolidated health of the processor subsystem.
CPU instance provider
Consolidates the health of the memory subsystem.Memory status provider
Generates WBEM indications equivalent to the events that the
monitors it replaces generate. The events related to
SFMIndicationProvider
CMC_IndicationProviderIA and PCIeIndicationProvider are
supported on HP Superdome 2.
Retrieves information about the management processor of the
system.
MP provider and MP status provider
Retrieves information about the Onboard Administrator (OA),
such as OA description, OA IP address, OA MAC address,
and the URL to launch the OA.
Enclosure provider and Enclosure status provider
Enables event analysis tools such as Web-Based Enterprise
Services (WEBES) to access details of indications generated by
Record log provider
the SFMIndicationProvider that are available in the SFM
database, for event analysis.
Describes properties such as the serial number, product ID, and
virtual Universally Unique ID (UUID).
ComputerSystem chassis provider
What is new in this version
• Common location of configuration and log files for simpler management on IA servers :
SFM is enhanced to enable simpler management of configuration and log files from a common
location. Soft links are now available from the common location /var/opt/psb/diags/
conf/sfm and /var/opt/psb/diags/log/sfm to SFM configuration and log files
respectively.
• The slview now has a new manpage, and the IPMI Event Viewer has a new GUI help page.
• A consistent property order is adapted for syslog events generated by SFM indication providers,
which is Providername, Perceived Severity, and Event Number.
• Support for processing of pre-boot FPL events to generate WBEM indication is provided. A
configurable parameter, FPLPreBoot, is provided which can be configured to receive
pre-boot events from FPL Indication provider.
• The sfmDBUtil is enhanced to support cleaning up specific DB. For information on the ‘clean’
option, see sfmDBUtil manpage.
• A new configuration parameter MaxNumPagesAllowed replaces PageSize in
DBConfig.xml file. This parameter allows you to specify the maximum number of pages
that can be occupied by the current database.
For information about the defect fixes, see Defect fixes.
Supported EMS hardware monitors
System Fault Management C.07.10.08.01 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release 5