HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA Provider Release Notes (September 2013)

1 RAIDSA provider release notes for September 2013
release
This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider,
which is supported on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems.Table 1 (page 5) lists
the product versions for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation Support for RAIDSA provider
VersionOperating system
B.11.31.1309.07.01HP-UX 11i v3
Announcement
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is an industry wide initiative to unify the management
of system, networks, and applications across multiple and diverse vendor environments. The WBEM
clients use the mass storage providers to gather information about various subsystems. The WBEM
standard enables the WBEM clients to subscribe to indications, and indication consumers to receive
indications on the occurrence of events of interest on the managed system. This release supports
HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider which is part of a suite of Mass Storage IO WBEM providers. The
other providers in this suite supported in the current release are:
• HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel provider
• HP-UX WBEM SAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM DAS provider
• HP-UX WBEM LAN provider
• HP-UX WBEM IOTree indication provider
• HP-UX WBEM SCSI provider
HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider
HP-UX WBEM RAIDSA provider is used by client applications to retrieve information about Smart
Array HBAs present on the system. Using this provider, the WBEM clients can retrieve details about
various attributes of Smart Array HBA.
The features of RAIDSA provider are described below:
• Reports data for the subsystem.
• Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide web access to HP-UX data for management clients.
• Used by HP Software Management clients, HP System Insight Manager (SIM), HP System
Management HomePage (SMH), and others.
• Supports WBEM 2.7 services security features to control access to HP-UX data.
• Provides consolidated status of the Smart Array HBAs present on the system using RAIDSA-CS
provider.
• Supports Indication Provider (IP) feature on HP-UX 11i v1, HP–UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3
OS. This feature generates indication in WBEM format and delivers the events to cimserver.
What's new in this release
• For RAIDSAProvider, the RAIDSAArchiveDBConnection.xml,
RAIDSADBConnection.xml, and RAIDSALoggerConfig.xml config files are moved
Announcement 5