Glossary

Common Information Model. An object-based model for describing managed resources. CIM uses the object-oriented paradigm, where managed objects are modeled using the concepts of classes and instances.

Common Information Model Object Manager. The component of WBEM that manages the interaction between the providers and other modules in the WBEM environment. CIMOM manages CIM objects. It receives and processes CIM operation requests and issues responses.

Distributed Management Task Force. An industry organization involved in the development, adoption, and interoperability of management standards and initiatives for enterprise and Internet environments.

Event Monitoring Service. It is an application framework used for monitoring system resources on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.x.

Daemons that proactively monitor hardware devices, such as CPU, memory, and hard disks.

Error Management Technology. A user component that enables you to obtain information about errors generated on an HP-UX 11i v3 system.

An alert generated when an unusual activity is detected on a monitored hardware device.

A component of EVWEB used to view indications present in the Event Archive.

User component that enables administering and viewing WBEM indications generated on the system on which SFM is installed. EVWEB provides both command line and browser based graphical user interface.

HP Remote Support Pack. Provides proactive remote monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting to help improve the availability of HP-supported servers and storage systems in your data center.

HP Systems Insight Manager. HP's management application installed on the CMS that uses WBEM instrumentation on operating systems such as HP-UX, Linux, and Windows.

HP System Management Homepage. HP's management application installed on the local system that uses WBEM instrumentation on operating systems such as HP-UX, Linux, and Windows.

An alert or a warning about the failure of a monitored hardware device. It is equivalent to an event in the Event Monitoring Service (EMS) framework.

It translates events generated by the Event Monitoring Service (EMS) monitors into WBEM indications, and reports them to the CIMOM.

A representation of the actual physical object that belongs to a class.

It provides information about devices, such as model number and serial number of a CPU. In the Support Tools Manager (STM), this functionality is accomplished by Information (Info) Tools.

A hardware device that is monitored.

A collection of tools that enables you to monitor and test server hardware.

The name of the bundle that includes the Online Diagnostics software.

The Provider Services Base product that offers interface for user space processes (typically, but not limited to, WBEM Indication Providers) to retrieve error logs from HP-UX Kernel.

The name of the bundle that includes the Provider Services Base software.

System Fault Management. The SFM software is a next generation solution that is used to monitor the health of HP servers running HP-UX 11i v1 and above.

Support Tools Manager. A component of Online Diagnostics that manages a collection of support tools that you can use to verify and troubleshoot system hardware.

The name of the bundle that includes the SFM software. It is also the product number of the SFM software available on the Software Depot.

Web-Based Enterprise Management. A collection of standards that aid large-scale systems management. WBEM allows management applications to monitor systems in a network.