HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider release notes (5900-2053, March 2012)

1 HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel provider release Notes
This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel (FC)
provider, which is supported on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems.
Table 1 (page 4) lists the product versions for which the document is applicable.
Table 1 Documentation Support for Fibre Channel provider
VersionOperating system
B.11.31.1203.05.01HP-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 Fibre-Channel 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 RAIDSA 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 Fibre Channel provider
The provider enables WBEM client applications to retrieve information about the Fibre Channel
host-bus adapters (FC-HBA) on the system.
The features of FC provider are described below:
• Supports Instance provider feature
This feature provides information about Fibre Channel subsystem in the managed node.
• Supports Consolidated Status provider (FC-CSP) feature
This feature reports the overall health status of the Fibre Channel subsystem in the managed
node.
• Supports indication provider (FC-IP) feature
This feature generates indications whenever the events of interest occur in the Fibre Channel
subsystems.
• 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 2.5 services security features to control access to HP-UX data.
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