Support Pack Release on HP-UX 11i v2 June 2010

SFM Providers
SFM providers are tools that gather information related to various hardware devices
and report to the Common Interface Model Object Manager (CIMOM).
Following lists the SFM providers, and their respective functions:
FunctionsProviders
Retrieves information about processor inventory
and consolidated health of the processor
subsystem.
CPU Instance Provider
Gathers information about memory inventory and
consolidated health of the memory subsystem.
Memory Instance Provider
Translates events generated by the EMS
Hardware Monitors into indications and reports
those indications to the CIMOM.
EMS Wrapper Provider
Provides the facility to predefine the important
filter in a repository. FMD also ensures that all
Filter Metadata (FMD) Provider
important or chosen indications are logged to the
local event archive. FMD creates HP-advised
subscriptions when SFM is installed.
Retrieve information about cooling devices (fans)
and power supply (bulk power supply and AC
Environmental Providers
input lines) on HP servers. They also retrieve
consolidated health of cooling, power, system
temperature, and system voltage subsystems on
HP servers.
Generates WBEM indications when an abnormal
activity is detected on the monitored devices and
SFMIndicationProvider
reports these WBEM indications to the EMS
framework.
Retrieves information about firmware revision of
system hardware components, such as system
Firmware Revision Instance Provider
firmware version and Management Processor
(MP) firmware version.
Retrieves information about the consolidated
health status and inventory information of direct
attached disk drives, such as SCSI drives.
Disk Instance Provider
Retrieves information about the management
processor of the system.
MP Instance Provider
Retrieves information about the Onboard
Administrator (OA), such as OA Description, OA
Enclosure Instance Provider
IP Address, OA MAC Address, and the URL to
launch the OA.
Enables event analysis tools such as Web-Based
Enterprise Services (WEBES) to access details of
Record Log Provider
indications generated by the
SFMIndicationProvider that are available in the
SFM database, for event analysis.
Generates an indication when Machine Check
Abort (MCA) logs are present due to an MCA
Machine Check Abort (MCA) Indication Provider
Provides details such as the processor temperature
and the memory board temperature
Temperature Sensor Provider
Note: The Enclosure Instance Provider is available on HP Integrity BL860c Server
Blade and HP Integrity BL870c Server Blade only.
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