System Fault Management

System Fault Management (SFM) is a collection of tools used to monitor the health of HP servers and receive information about hardware such as memory, CPU, power supplies, and cooling devices. SFM operates in the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) environment.

SFM is supported on all systems that support HP-UX 11i v3.

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

SFM is new for customers migrating from HP-UX 11i v1. It was not previously delivered on the HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005 OE media.

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

Event Manager-Common Information Model (EVM-CIM) Provider is introduced.
Error Management Technology (EMT) is introduced.
SFMIndicationProvider is not available. However, you can continue to view indications equivalent to those generated by the SFMIndicationProvider, using the EVWEB Event Viewer.
Log Viewer is not available.
HP threshold indications equivalent to indications generated by High Availability Monitors are now supported. You can view HP threshold indications using the EVWEB Event Viewer.
WBEM indications can be logged in syslog also.

Impact

There are no impacts other than those previously listed.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

For further information, see the following documents, available at http://docs.hp.com/en/diag:

System Fault Management Administrator’s and User's Guide
SFM Release Notes
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
SFM Provider Data Sheets
SFM Tables of Versions

Obsolescence

Not applicable.