HP-UX SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) Release Notes (766969-001, March 2014) (Edition: 2)

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Error Management Technology (EMT) is a component of SysFaultMgmt (System Fault
Management) (SFM). EMT includes Common Error Repository (CER), which is an online, searchable,
and it can be updated for its error repository. The CER contains error metadata such as error
description, error number, error type, severity, cause of the error, and corrective actions for errors
generated on the HP-UX 11i v3 system.
Benefits of EMT
Following are 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.
Features of EMT
EMT offers the following features:
• Provides both quick search and advanced search mechanisms to view error metadata from
CER
• Generates a list of errors in a printer-friendly format (GUI only)
• Enables users with administrative privileges to create, modify, and delete custom solutions.
NOTE: EMT supports these features on browser-based GUI and the CLI.
What is new in this version for EMT
There are no new features for the current release.
EMT related defect fixes
There are no new defects fixed in the current release.
Limitations of EMT
Following is a limitation of EMT:
• When you make a generic query to the CER, a huge amount of data is retrieved from the
CER. However, this behavior may affect the performance of EMT.
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