HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider release notes HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-0884 Published: September 2010
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Table of Contents 1 HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider release notes..................................................................5 Announcement.......................................................................................................................................6 HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider................................................................................................................7 What's New in This Release...........................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 1-4 1-5 1-6 1-7 1-8 4 Documentation Support for LAN Provider....................................................................................5 LAN Provider Supported Platform and OS Requirement..............................................................9 LAN Provider Disk Space Requirement.........................................................................................9 Defect Fix in the HP-UX 11i v2 operating systems.................................................
1 HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider release notes This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX WBEM LAN provider, which is supported on HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems. Table 1-1 Documentation Support for LAN Provider Operating System Version HP-UX 11i v3 B.11.31.
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.
HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider HP-UX WBEM LAN provider is used by client applications to retrieve information about LAN cards present on the system. Using this provider, the WBEM clients can retrieve details about various attributes of a LAN card. The features of LAN provider are described below: • • • • • • Reports data for the subsystem. Supports HP-UX WBEM services to provide web access to HP-UX data for management clients.
What's New in This Release Defects are fixed in the current release.
Installing HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider The latest WBEM LAN provider depot is available for download on the OE media. It is also available on the Web for download at: http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/ hpsim/dl_hpux.html#managed For more information on installing the providers, see the Website at: http://h20392.www2.hp.com/ portal/swdepot/displayInstallInfo.
Defects Fixed in This Version This section describes the WBEM LAN Provider defects fixed in the HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 operating systems. Table 1-4 Defect Fix in the HP-UX 11i v2 operating systems. Defect ID Description Defect Fix in B.11.23.1003 Release QXCR1000993165 In the previous release, the LAN provider generates a core file due to an option missing in the compilation file of LAN Consolidated Status provider and LAN Indication provider.
Known Problems, Workarounds, Limitations Following Known Problem is applicable for the current version of the product: Several property data types of the LAN Provider module are different from the data types documented in the provider datasheet available at/opt/lanprovider/doc/ HPUX_LANProvider.pdf. Property data types used in the LAN provider module must be reset in accordance to the property data types set in the datasheet.
Related Documentation Table 1-8 lists the available documentation for the WBEM providers: Table 1-8 WBEM Provider Related Documents Description CIM Tutorial Location http://www.dmtf.org/education/cimtutorial.php Information about HP WBEM Services http://software.hp.com and http://www.hp.com Overview of the Indication Schema http://www.openpegasus.org/uploads/40/3452/WBEMIndications.