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

The Event Monitoring Service (EMS) wrapper provider receives events generated by the EMS
hardware monitors. The following EMS hardware monitors are supported on HP 9000 servers
running the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system:
• LPMC (now CPU) (lpmc_em)
• Memory (dm_memory)
• Core HW (dm_core_hw)
• Chassis Code (dm_chassis)
• IPMI Forward Progress Log Monitor (fpl_em)
The following EMS hardware monitors are supported on HP Integrity servers running the HP-UX
11i v3 operating system:
• Corrected platform error monitor (cpe_em)
• IPMI forward progress log monitor (fpl_em)
• CMC monitor (cmc_em)
• Itanium core hardware monitor (ia64_corehw)
• Itanium memory monitor (memory_ia64)
NOTE: All of EMS hardware monitors are not supported by EMS wrapper provider included in
SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) product. For information on other providers
like I/O and Storage, see HP WBEM providers at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-wbem-docs.
What is new in this version for SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management)
(SFM)
From current WBEMMgmtBundle C.08.01 release (March 2014)
There are no new features for the current release.
From previous WBEMMgmtBundle C.07.01 release (September 2013)
Starting with WBEMMgmtBundle C.07.01 (September 2013) release onwards, following features
are supported.
• sfmDBUtil is enhanced to support displaying the disk space occupied by databases.
For more information on the newly introduced ‘size’ option, see sfmDBUtil manpage.
• Improved memory system reliability on BL860c i4, BL870c i4, BL890c i4, rx2800 i4
and rx2900 i4.
Other pre-requisites: System firmware version 44.01 or later (see server download page under
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc).
NOTE: It is recommended to install or upgrade to WBEMMgmtBundle C.07.01 or current
version C.07.12.05.02 or later, prior to upgrading the system firmware. If system firmware
version 44.01 or later is already installed on the system, it is required to reboot the system
after upgrading to WBEMMgmtBundle C.07.01 or current version C.07.12.05.02 or later,
for optimized memory reliability to take effect.
• Enhanced support for fetching error metadata from CER.
What is new in this version for SysFaultMgmt (System Fault Management) (SFM) 9