SFM Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v2 March 2013

Table 1 lists the SFM providers, and their respective functions
FunctionsProviders
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
Translates events generated by the EMS hardware monitors into
indications and reports those indications to the CIMOM.
EMS wrapper provider
Provides the facility to predefine the important filter in a
repository. FMD also ensures that all important or chosen
Filter Metadata (FMD) provider
indications are logged to the local event archive. FMD creates
HP-advised subscriptions when SFM is installed.
Retrieve information about cooling devices (fans) and power
supply (bulk power supply and AC input lines) on HP servers.
Environmental providers
They also retrieve consolidated health of cooling, power, system
temperature, and system voltage subsystems on HP servers.
Generates WBEM indications when an abnormal activity is
detected on the monitored devices and reports these WBEM
indications to the EMS framework.
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 consolidated health status and
inventory information of direct attached disk drives, such as
SCSI drives.
Disk 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
Record log provider
the SFMIndicationProvider that are available in the SFM
database, for event analysis.
Generates an indication when Machine Check Abort (MCA)
logs are present due to an MCA.
Machine Check Abort (MCA) Indication Provider
Provides details such as the processor temperature and the
memory board temperature.
Temperature provider
NOTE: The Enclosure Instance Provider is available on HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade and HP
Integrity BL870c Server Blade only.
What is new in this version
None
For information about the defect fixes, see Defect fixes.
Supported EMS hardware monitors
The following EMS monitors are supported on HP 9000 systems running the HP-UX 11i v2 operating
system:
• LPMC (now CPU) (lpmc_em)
• Memory (dm_memory)
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