HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider

The HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider (FC Provider) is an HP-UX WBEM provider. It enables WBEM client applications to retrieve information about Fibre Channel HBAs on the system. This component makes available various attributes related to HBA such as port properties, HBA parameters, and others.

This product requires WBEM services version number A.02.05 to be installed on HP-UX 11i v2 system.

The following features are supported by the FC Provider:

Supports Consolidated Status Provider (CSP) feature
This feature reports the overall health status of the FC-HBA 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.

Summary of Change

The provider version has changed to 11.23.0712 from 11.23.0706.

Feature Changes:

The provider is supported by the System Management Homepage (SMH) application.
New classes are added to provide the following information for WBEM Clients:
- Data traffic statistics
- Slot number details of the cards
- Firmware version number of the cards installed on the system

Impact

You can obtain Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) properties from SMH application.

Compatibility

There are no known compatibility issues.

Performance

There are no known performance issues.

Documentation

Complete information is in the Fibre Channel provider product data sheet, installed at the following location:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/netsys.html#HP%20WBEM%20Services

For more information about the SMH application, see the following documents, available at http://docs.hp.com (navigate to Network and Systems Management, then to System Administration):

HP System Management Homepage Release Notes
HP System Management Homepage Installation Guide
“Next generation single-system management on HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)” (white paper)

Obsolescence

Not applicable