SFM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 September 2012

Users can select one or more destination from the following list:
◦ Event archive: The path of Event archive is /var/opt/sfmdb/pgsql for PA-RISC and
/var/opt/psb/db/pgsql/ for Itanium. Event archive is the default destination.
◦ Email: Event notification will be emailed to the specified email address. Users can specify
multiple email addresses.
◦ syslog: The path to syslog is /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.
• Event viewer
The event viewer enables users to view the indications stored in the Event archive. In addition,
users with administrative privileges can also delete these indications. By default, HP-advised
subscriptions are stored in the Event archive. The event viewer also enables users to search
for an indication logged in the Event Archive.
• Log viewer
The log viewer enables users to view and search the low level logs stored in the log database.
Benefits
Following lists the benefits of EVWEB:
• Enables users to manage all WBEM indications that are supported by SFM.
• Provides an option to customize the indication destination to receive information about
HP-advised subscriptions.
• Enables users to view the command-line equivalent of an action performed using the GUI,
thereby, educating users about the usage of various commands.
Features
EVWEB offers the following features:
• Provides both quick search and advanced search mechanisms to view events from the Event
archive.
• Provides both simple and advanced search mechanism to search for low level logs from the
log viewer.
• Generates a list of events in a printer-friendly format (GUI only).
• Enables users with administrative privileges to create, modify, and delete indications.
• Enables users to view subscriptions created using EVWEB
• Enables users to view externally created subscriptions.
Subscriptions created by using tools other than EVWEB are termed as externally created event
subscriptions.
• Enables users to view HP-advised subscriptions. HP-advised subscriptions are provided by
default by HP.
NOTE: EVWEB supports these features on browser-based GUI and the CLI.
What is new in this version
None
Defect fixes
QXCR1001199653: evweb subscribe -M option isn't consistent with manpage in some places
(medium).
Problem: The “retain destination” sub option “–r” of modify subscription (evweb subscribe
–M ) needs to retain destination only when the criteria is also provided as an argument.
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