Traditionally, hardware resources on HP-UX systems were monitored
using the EMS-based hardware diagnostics solution that provided
an array of EMS monitors to monitor the system hardware. It also provided
tools to check the status and property information of hardware components
and perform various tests on the hardware components. However, with
increasing complexity of hardware in the data center, there is a growing
demand to simplify IT infrastructure management. HP has redefined
the hardware diagnostics solution based on the industry standard Distributed
Management Task Force (DMTF) Common Information Model (CIM) and the
DMTF Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). As a result, we now have
the next generation hardware diagnostics solution, which is a WBEM-based
solution.
The WBEM-based Hardware Diagnostics solution provides an industry
standard based health tests for system devices (CPU health validation
and Memory health validation tests etc). For more information, see ProviderSvcsBase administrator guide at: http://www.docs.hp.com/en/diag.html
The WBEM solution contains the DMTF CIM WBEM compliant providers
as the base instrumentation that monitors the system hardware. It
provides tools to dynamically query for status and property information
about common hardware components. The WBEM-based hardware diagnostics
solution is a part of the SysFaultMgmt, SASPROVIDER, FCPROVIDER, RAIDSAPROVIDER, and WBEMP-Storage products, and is available on the base Operating
Environment (OE).
This chapter briefly introduces you to the EMS-based and WBEM-based
hardware diagnostics solutions. It contains the migration overview
that announces the discontinuation of the EMS-based hardware diagnostics
solution. It lists the features and benefits provided by the WBEM-based
over the EMS-based hardware diagnostics solution. This chapter outlines
the differences in terminologies, architecture, and functioning of
both the solutions.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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