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System Fault Management Release Notes
HP-UX 11i v1 December 2006

Announcement

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 includes the following tools:

This document contains the following sections:

SFM Providers

SFM providers are tools that gather information related to various hardware devices and report to the Common Interface Model Object Manager (CIMOM).

Following lists the SFM providers, and their respective functions:

Providers Functions
CPU Instance Provider Retrieves information about processor inventory and consolidated health of the processor subsystem
Memory Instance Provider Gathers information about memory inventory and consolidated health of the memory subsystem
EMS Wrapper Provider Translates events generated by the EMS Hardware Monitors into indications and reports those indications to the CIMOM
Filter Metadata (FMD) Provider Provides the facility to predefine the important filter in a repository. FMD also ensures that all important or chosen indications are logged to the local event archive. FMD creates HP-advised subscriptions when SFM is installed.
Environmental Providers Retrieve information about cooling devices (fans) and power supply (bulk power supply and AC input lines) on HP servers. They also retrieve consolidated health of cooling, power, system temperature, and system voltage subsystems on HP servers.
Firmware Revision Instance Provider Retrieves information about firmware revision of system hardware components, such as system firmware version and Management Processor (MP) firmware version
Disk Instance Provider Retrieves information about the consolidated health status and inventory information of direct attached disk drives, such as SCSI drives
MP Instance Provider Retrieves information about the management processor of the system

What Is New in This Version

Supported EMS Hardware Monitors

The following Event Monitoring Service (EMS) monitors are supported by SFM on PA-RISC-based servers running the HP-UX 11i v1 operating system:

Defect Fixes

Not applicable

EVWEB

This section describes EVWEB.

What Is EVWEB

EVWEB is a tool that can be used to view and administer WBEM indications generated on the HP-UX 11i v1 system.

The EVWEB tool includes the following components:

Benefits

Following lists the benefits of EVWEB:

Features

Following lists the features that EVWEB offers:

Note: EVWEB supports these features on browser-based GUI and the CLI.

What Is New in EVWEB Limitations

System Requirements

SFM is supported on the following systems running the HP-UX 11i v1 operating system:

On the following systems, the CPU Instance Provider does not provide information about deconfigured processors, empty CPU slots, part number, and serial number:

On the following systems, the CPU Instance Provider does not provide information about the part number and serial number:

On the following systems, the Memory Instance Provider does not provide information about the serial number and the part number:

On the following systems, additional DIMM Properties like Artwork Revision, ScanRevision and EngineeringDateCode are reported:

On the following systems, the Environmental Instance Provider does not provide information about the power or cooling subsystems:

Note: You must uninstall the A.01.00.01 version or the A.03.00.xx version of SFM before installing the A.04.00.xx version of SFM.

Following lists the software requirements for using SFM:

Supported Browsers

Following lists the browsers supported by SFM:

Limitations

Known Problems and Workarounds

Symptom: The following error message is displayed in the sfm.log file:
ConsolidatedStatusProvider ERROR 14459 19 Internal error during DeleteInstance for:CIM_IndicationSubscription CIM_ERR_NOT_FOUND: CIM_IndicationSubscription

Problem: The SFMProviderModule is degraded. Enter the following command at the HP-UX prompt:
# cimprovider –ls
The following output is displayed:
SFMProviderModule Degraded
A core may also be generated at: /var/opt/wbem/core

Workaround:
To ensure that the SFMProviderModule does not degrade, complete the following steps:

  1. Create the following xml file, called SFM.xml, at /opt/sfm: 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <CIM CIMVERSION="2.0" DTDVERSION="2.0">  
    <MESSAGE ID="82000" PROTOCOLVERSION="1.0">        
        <SIMPLEREQ>
           <IMETHODCALL NAME="EnumerateInstances">                   
               <LOCALNAMESPACEPATH>
                 <NAMESPACE NAME="root"/>
                 <NAMESPACE NAME="cimv2"/>                                 
             </LOCALNAMESPACEPATH> 
          <IPARAMVALUE NAME="ClassName">
            <CLASSNAME NAME="HP_GroupHostedCollection"/>                
          </IPARAMVALUE>  
          </IMETHODCALL>
       </SIMPLEREQ>    
  </MESSAGE>
 </CIM>
  2. Create the following ksh file at /opt/sfm:
    #!/usr/bin/ksh
    /opt/wbem/bin/wbemexec /opt/sfm/SFM.xml 1> /dev/null 2>&1
  3. Run the ksh file using a cron job or any other scheduler once every three minutes. For scheduling using cron job execute “crontab –e” and add the following entry :
    3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,28,32,35,38,41,44,47,50,53,55,58 * * * * /opt/wbem/bin/wbemexec /opt/sfm/SFM.xml 1>/dev/null 2>&1
     

Product Documentation

For more information on SFM, see the following documents at:
http://docs.hp.com/en/diag.html

Software and Documentation Availability in Native Languages

SFM software and documents are available only in the English language.

Product Structure

The SFM product, consisting of SFM providers and EVWEB, is installed as part of the SysFaultMgmt bundle.

Following are the commands you must use to obtain the bundle, product, sub-product, and the fileset information about the SysFaultMgmt depot:

Reporting Defects

You can report defects related to SFM or EVWEB by filing a request on CHART. The name of the project is diag.sfm. If you do not have access to CHART, contact your local HP representative to file a defect on your behalf.

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Last updated: January 28 2009