System Fault Management White Paper

Use Cases
This section describes various use cases of SFM. They are as follows:
• Viewing Errors on a Monitored System
• Receiving Notification of Errors
• Viewing System Health Status
• Defining WBEM Indications Criteria
• Viewing Error Metadata
• Troubleshooting Hardware
• Viewing Event Logs
Viewing Errors on a Monitored System
This use case illustrates how events generated by SFM are displayed on HP SMH and HP SIM.
Figure 4 is a sample output of the event list on HP SMH.
Figure 4 Event List
Receiving Notification of Errors
This use case illustrates how events generated by SFM can be delivered by email or logged in
the Event Archive.
Figure 5 is a sample output of how notification of errors can be configured.
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