SFM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010

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System Fault Management C.07.01.06.01 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010

Announcement

This release of System Fault Management (SFM) supports HP Integrity Superdome 2 (HP Superdome 2).

Introduction

SFM includes the following tools:

SFM Providers

EVWEB

Note:

HP-UX need not be rebooted upon upgrade/install of this version.

Starting with the HP-UX 11i v2 March 2006 release, EVWEB is included in the SysFaultMgmt bundle.

This document contains the following sections:

SFM Providers

What Is New in This Version

Supported EMS Hardware Monitors

Defect Fixes

EVWEB

What Is EVWEB

Benefits

Features

Limitations

EMT

What Is EMT

Benefits

Features

Limitations

System Requirements

Supported Browsers

Limitation and Workaround

Product Documentation

Software and Documentation Availability in Native Languages

Product Structure

Reporting Defects

SFM Providers

SFM providers are tools that gather information related to various hardware devices and report to the Common Interface Model Object Manager

(CIMOM).

Table 1 lists the SFM providers, and their respective functions:

Table 1: Providers and their Functions

Providers Functions

BladeProvider and BladeStatusProvider Available on Blade servers, providing Blade Inventory details and health status of blades current partition

EMDProvider Helps to query CER (Common Error Repository) for error metadata used only in SysFaultMgmt.

CPU Instance Provider Retrieves information about processor inventory and consolidated health of the processor subsystem.

Memory Instance Provider Gathers information about memory inventory and consolidated health of the memory subsystem.

EMS Wrapper Provider

Converts events generated by the EMS Hardware Monitors into indications and reports those indications to the

CIMOM.

NOTE: This provider and WBEM to EMS Consumer is not supported on HP Integrity BL860c i2, BL870c i2 &

BL890c i2 Server Blades and HP Integrity Superdome 2.

Filter Metadata (FMD) Provider

Provides the facility to predefine the important filter in a repository. FMD also ensures that all important or

chosen indications are logged to the local event archive. FMD creates HP-advised subscriptions when SFM is

installed.

Environmental Providers

Retrieve information about cooling devices (fans) and power supply (bulk power supply and AC input lines) on

HP servers. They also retrieve consolidated health of cooling, power, system temperature, and system voltage

subsystems on HP servers.

Summary of content (8 pages)

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System Fault Management C.07.01.06.01 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 Announcement This release of System Fault Management (SFM) supports HP Integrity Superdome 2 (HP Superdome 2). Introduction SFM includes the following tools: SFM Providers EVWEB Note: HP-UX need not be rebooted upon upgrade/install of this version. Starting with the HP-UX 11i v2 March 2006 release, EVWEB is included in the SysFaultMgmt bundle.
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Event Manager Common Information Model Converts EVM events into indications and reports those indications to the CIMOM. (EVM CIM) Provider SFMIndicationProvider Generates WBEM indications equivalent to the events that the monitors it replaces generate. Retrieves information about the firmware revision of system hardware components, such as system firmware Firmware Revision Instance Provider version and Management Processor (MP) firmware version.
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Itanium Memory Monitor (memory_ia64) NOTE: All of EMS Hardware Monitors are not supported by EMS Wrapper Provider included in SFM product. For information on other providers like I/O and Storage, see HP WBEM Providers at: http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-networking-docs Defect Fixes QXCR1001003235 Reconfiguring / reinstalling of SFM C.06.00.07.01 version creates many 'at(1)' jobs. Problem: After reconfiguring / reinstalling of SFM C.06.00.07.
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The EVWEB tool includes the following components: Event Subscription Administrator Event Subscription Administrator enables users to subscribe to an indication and view it. In addition, users with administrative privileges can also modify, and delete subscriptions. By subscribing to an indication, users can obtain detailed information about various WBEM indications. As a part of event subscription, users must specify event subscription criteria.
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Benefits Following lists the benefits of EMT: Enables users to view most errors that can occur on the HP-UX 11i v3 system. Provides an option to the administrators to add, modify, and delete custom solutions. Enables users to view the command-line equivalent of an action performed using the GUI, thereby, educating users about the usage of various commands.
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rx7640 rx8640 SD16B SD32B SD64B Following lists the software requirements for using SFM: HP-UX 11i v3 February 2007 release or later OpenSSL Version A.00.09.08g.001 or later EVM-EventMgr B.11.31 September 2007 or later SysMgmtBase Version B.00.02.03 (Interface) WBEMSvcs Version A.02.09.02 PHCO_40289 (for Itanium only) SysMgmtWeb (HP-UX Web-Based System Management User Interface) Version A.3.0.2, September 2009 release or later HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) Version 5.0.01 ProviderSvcsBase Version C.04.
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Problem: CIM_AlertIndication.NetworkAddresses does not contain all assigned IP addresses. Description: Indication delivered by SFM does not display all the IP addresses in NetworkAddresses property of CIM_AlertIndication class when a new IP address is configured or an old IP address is changed at runtime.
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SFM-CORE.GS_COREIA SFM-CORE.GS_COREPA SFM-CORE.HAS-IA SFM-CORE.HAS-PA SFM-CORE.HS_PRO_COMM SFM-CORE.HS_PRO_COREIA SFM-CORE.HS_PRO_COREPA SFM-CORE.MEM-TEST-IA SFM-CORE.MISC_COMM SFM-CORE.MISC_COREIA SFM-CORE.MISC_COREPA SFM-CORE.MISC_TOOLS SFM-CORE.MISC_TOOLS SFM-CORE.SFMUI-PROPPAGE SFM-CORE.SFM_MAN SFM-CORE.SFM_PRO_COMM SFM-CORE.SFM_PRO_IA SFM-CORE.SFM_PRO_PA # SFMDB SFMDB.SMPGSQL-DOC SFMDB.SMPGSQL-INC SFMDB.SMPGSQL-LIB SFMDB.SMPGSQL-MAN SFMDB.SMPGSQL-RUN SFMDB.SMPGSQL-SHA SFMDB.SMPGSQL-SRC C.07.01.xx C.