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

2 SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) providers
SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) providers are tools that gather information
related to various hardware devices and report to the Common Interface Model Object Manager
(CIMOM).
Features of SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM)
Table 2 (page 7) lists SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) providers, and their
respective functions. Table 3 (page 8) lists SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM)
providers supported on HP Superdome 2, and their respective functions.
Table 2 SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) providers and functions
FunctionsProviders
Available on Blade servers, providing Blade inventory details and health
status of blades current partition.
BladeProvider and BladeStatusProvider
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
Converts events generated by the EMS hardware monitors into indications
and reports those indications to the CIMOM.
NOTE: This provider and WBEM to EMS Consumer is not supported on
HP Integrity BL860c i2, BL870c i2 and BL890c i2 Server
Blades, rx2800 i2, rx2900 i4, HP Integrity Superdome 2 Server
and Intel Itanium 9500 Processor Series.
EMS wrapper provider
Provides the facility to predefine the important filter in a repository. FMD
also ensures that all important or chosen indications are logged to the
FMD (Filter Metadata) provider
local event archive. FMD creates HP-advised subscriptions when
SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) is installed.
Retrieve information about cooling devices (fans) and power supply (bulk
power supply and AC input lines) on HP servers. They also retrieve
Environmental providers
consolidated health of cooling, power, system temperature, and system
voltage subsystems on HP servers.
Converts EVM events into indications and reports those indications to the
CIMOM.
EVM CIM (Event Manager Common
Information Model) provider
Generates WBEM indications equivalent to the events that the monitors it
replaces generate.
SFMIndicationProvider
Retrieves information about the firmware revision of system hardware
components, such as system firmware version and Management Processor
(MP) firmware version.
Firmware revision 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 IP address, OA MAC address, and the URL to launch the
OA.
Enclosure instance provider
Enables event analysis tools such as Web-Based Enterprise Services
(WEBES) to access details of indications generated by the
Record log provider
SFMIndicationProvider that are available in the SysFaultMgmt (System
Fault Management) (SFM) database, for event analysis. The Record Log
provider also enables event analysis tools to access MCA logs for event
analysis.
Features of SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) 7