System Fault Management Release Notes
HP-UX 11i v2 June 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:

• SFM Providers
• EVWEB

Note: Starting with the HP-UX 11i v2 March 2006 release, EVWEB is included in the SFM bundle.

This document contains the following sections:

• SFM Providers
  • What Is New in This Version
  • Supported EMS Hardware Monitors
  • Defect Fixes
• EVWEB
  • What Is EVWEB
  • Benefits
  • Features
  • What Is New in EVWEB
  • Limitations
• System Requirements
• Supported Browsers
• Limitations
• Product Documentation
• Software and Documentation Availability in Native Languages
• Product Structure
• Reporting Defects

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.
SFMIndicationProvider	Generates WBEM indications when an abnormal activity is detected on the monitored devices and reports these WBEM indications to the EMS framework.

What Is New in This Version

• This version includes a new indication provider, called the SFMIndicationProvider on Itanium-based systems only. This indication provider performs the same functions as the following Event Monitoring Service (EMS) monitors:
  • Corrected Platform Error Monitor (cpe_em)
  • CMC Monitor (cmc_em)
  • Itanium Memory Monitor (memory_ia64)
  You can switch between this indication provider and these EMS monitors. The remaining supported monitors function properly irrespective of whether you choose to use the SFMIndicationProvider or these EMS monitors.

Supported EMS Hardware Monitors

The following EMS monitors are supported on PA-RISC-based servers running the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system:

• LPMC (now CPU) (lpmc_em)
• Memory (dm_memory)
• Core HW (dm_core_hw)
• Chassis Code (dm_chassis)
• Disk (disk_em)
• IPMI Forward Progress Log Monitor (fpl_em)

The following EMS hardware monitors are supported on Itanium-based servers running the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system:

• Corrected Platform Error Monitor (cpe_em)
• IPMI Forward Progress Log Monitor (fpl_em)
• CMC Monitor (cmc_em)
• Itanium Core Hardware Monitor(ia64_corehw)
• SCSI Disk Monitor (disk_em)
• Itanium Memory Monitor (memory_ia64)

Defect Fixes

• JAGaf80165
  Problem
  Request to retrieve information from the CPU Instance Provider, Memory Instance Provider, and the Environmental Provider may time out on some platforms. This is because providers are slow in gathering inventory information. Also, providers do not inform the client that the inventory information is being gathered.
  Resolution
  This problem is fixed. Providers do not timeout anymore. Instead, a message is displayed on the client system that states " Inventory is being built currently. Please try after some time" . Once the inventory information is gathered, providers respond with requested information to the client when subsequent requests are made.
  Note: After installation of the SFM product, the first request to any provider for information related to various devices is slow. Subsequently, requests are quick (even after a reboot).

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 v2 system.

The EVWEB tool includes the following components:

• Event Subscription Administrator
  Event Subscription Administrator enables users to subscribe to an indication and view it. In addition, users with administrative privileges can also modify, and delete subscriptions. By subscribing to an indication, users can obtain detailed information about various WBEM indications.
  As a part of event subscription, users must specify event subscription criteria. Users must also select one or more destinations to receive information about indications.
  Users can select one or more destination from the following list:
  • Event Archive: The path of Event Archive is /var/opt/sfmdb/pgsql. Event Archive is the default destination.
  • Email: Event notification will be emailed to the specified email address. Users can specify multiple email addresses.
• Event Viewer
  The Event Viewer enables users to view the indications stored in the Event Archive. In addition, users with administrative privileges can also delete these indications. By default, HP-advised subscriptions are stored in the Event Archive. The Event Viewer also enables users to search for an indication logged in the Event Archive.

Benefits

Following lists the benefits of EVWEB:

• Enables users to manage all WBEM indications that are supported by SFM.
• Provides an option to customize the indication destination to receive information about HP-advised subscriptions.
• Enables users to view the command-line equivalent of an action performed using the GUI, thereby, educating users about the usage of various commands.

Features

Following lists the features that EVWEB offers:

• Provides quick search and advanced search mechanisms to view events from the Event Archive
• Generates a list of events in a printer-friendly format (GUI only)
• Enables users with administrative privileges to delete indications
• Enables users with administrative privileges to manage subscriptions, such as creating, modifying, and deleting indications
• Enables users to view subscriptions created using EVWEB
• Enables users to view externally created subscriptions.
  Subscriptions created by using tools other than EVWEB are termed as externally created event subscriptions.
• Enables users to view HP-advised subscriptions. HP-advised subscriptions are provided by default by HP.

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

What Is New in EVWEB

• EVWEB includes a new component, called the Log Viewer. The Log Viewer enables users to view and search the low level logs stored in the log database. The Log Viewer feature is available on Itanium-based systems only.
• The Event Subscription Administration includes a new administrative feature called Throttling Configuration on Itanium-based systems. Using this feature, you can view and administer a throttling configuration.
• The Event Viewer provides a formatted view of the details of an event. The formatted view is applicable for events from the HP_DeviceIndication class only.
• The information sent by email is also formatted. The formatting is applicable for events from the HP_DeviceIndication class only.

Limitations

• When a HP-advised subscription is copied to create or modify another subscription, the subscription criteria is not copied. However, only destinations are copied to the new subscription.
• Event details displayed in EVWEB Event Viewer and embedded in the EVWEB email notification may not have similar readability or formatting as provided by the EMS event notification. However, this issue is not applicable to HP_DeviceIndication class indications.
• The HP-advised subscription may not be listed through EVWEB Subscription Administration even though it is actually existing on the system. However, the WBEM events will continue to be delivered to the event archive and can be viewed through EVWEB Event Viewer.

System Requirements

SFM is supported on the following systems running the HP-UX 11i v2 operating system:

• PA-RISC-based servers
  • rp3410
  • rp3440
  • rp4410
  • rp4440
  • rp7400
  • rp7410
  • rp7420
  • rp7440
  • rp8400
  • rp8420
  • rp8440
  • SD16, SD32, SD64
  • SD16A, SD32A, SD64A
  • SD16B, SD32B, SD64B
  • 9000/800/A400-44
  • 9000/800/A400-6x
  • 9000/800/A500-7x
  • 9000/800/L1000-36
  • 9000/800/L2000-36
  • 9000/800/L1500-7x
  • 9000/800/L1500-8x
  • 9000/800/L3000-6x
  • 9000/800/L3000-7x
  • 9000/800/L3000-8x
• Itanium-based servers
  • cx2600
  • cx2620
  • rx1600
  • rx1620-2
  • rx2600
  • rx2620
  • rx2620-2
  • rx3600
  • rx4640
  • rx5670
  • rx6600
  • rx7620
  • rx7640
  • rx8620
  • rx8640
  • SD16A, SD32A, SD64A
  • SD16B, SD32B, SD64B
  • BL60p
  • Integrity Virtual Machine

Following lists the software requirements for using SFM:

• May 2005 HP-UX 11iv2 Operating Environment (OEUR) or later
• QPKBASE B.11.23.0603.040a Base Quality Pack Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2, June 2006
• OpenSSL A.00.09.07e.012 or later
• SysMgmtWeb version A.2.2.2 (HP-UX Web-Based System Management User Interface)
• WBEMServices A.02.00.09 WBEM Services CORE Product
• OnlineDiag version B.11.23.07.xx

Notes:

• SysMgmtWeb is optional. However, you will not be able to access EVWEB GUI if SysMgmtWeb is not installed on the system. SysMgmtWeb, WBEMServices A.02.00.09, and Online Diagnostics are available on the OE media.
• HP recommends that you install HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) version 5.0.01 to remotely administer indications and instances.
• The mentioned versions of the software are minimum requirements. All future versions support SFM by default.

Supported Browsers

Following lists the browsers supported by SFM:

• Internet Explorer version 6.0 and above
• Mozilla version 1.5 and above

Limitations

• If the default log directory is deleted, log messages are not logged. A message is logged in syslog stating that the SFM log file could not be opened. Only a root user can remove this directory. HP recommends that users do not delete this default log directory.
• After the system is rebooted or the CIMOM is restarted, the first request to SFM hardware inventory providers such as the CPU Instance Provider, Memory Provider, and the Environmental Providers may fail with the generation of the CIM_ERR_FAILED status code. Also, a message is displayed on the client system that states " Inventory information is being built currently. Please try after some time" . However, on subsequent requests, the SFM hardware inventory providers respond with requested information instantaneously.
• Hardware inventory providers are not supported on HP Virtual Machines.
• The errors processed by the SFMIndicationProvider cannot be sent to the EMS monitors when you switch from the SFMIndicationProvider to EMS monitors.

Product Documentation

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

• SFM Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• System Fault Management Administrator's Guide
• SFM Provider Data Sheets

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:

• Bundle
  

  $ swlist -s <SysFaultMgmt Depot Location>SysFaultMgmt B.02.00.xx.yy HPUX System Fault Management

• Product(s)
  

  $ swlist -l product -s <SysFaultMgmt Depot Location>SFM-CORE   B.02.00.xx   HPUX System Fault ManagementSFMDB      B.02.00.xx   HP System Management Database (SFMDB)

• Sub-product(s)
  

  $ swlist -l subproduct -s <SysFaultMgmt Depot Location>SFM-CORE.HS-PROVIDER     HS-PROVIDERSFM-CORE.ERROR-MGMT      Error Management TechnologySFM-CORE.EVWEBSFM-CORE.FMD-PROVIDER    FMD-PROVIDERSFM-CORE.GS              GSSFM-CORE.SFM-HAS         SFM-HASSFM-CORE.SFM-PROVIDER    SFM-PROVIDERSFMDB                    B.02.00.xx    HP System Management Database (SFMDB)

• Fileset(s)
  

  $ swlist -l fileset -s <SysFaultMgmt Depot Location># SFM-CORE                      B.02.00.xx     HPUX System Fault Management  SFM-CORE.HS_PRO_COREIA        B.02.00.xx     HealthState Instance Provider Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.HS_PRO_COREPA        B.02.00.xx     HealthState Instance Provider Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.CTR_PRO_COMM         B.02.00.xx     Control Provider Common Fileset  SFM-CORE.CTR_PRO_COREIA       B.02.00.xx     Control Provider Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.CTR_PRO_COREPA       B.02.00.xx     Control Provider Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.EMT_COMM             B.02.00.xx     EMT Common components  SFM-CORE.EMT_COREIA           B.02.00.xx     EMT core platform specific fileset  SFM-CORE.EMT_COREPA           B.02.00.xx     EMT core platform specific fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_COMM           B.02.00.xx     Event Manager (EvWEB) Common components  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_COREIA         B.02.00.xx     EvWEB core platform specific fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_COREPA         B.02.00.xx     EvWEB core platform specific fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_DOC            B.02.00.xx     EvWEB Online help fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_GUI_COMM       B.02.00.xx     EvWEB GUI common fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_GUI_IA         B.02.00.xx     EvWEB GUI platform specific fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_GUI_PA         B.02.00.xx     EvWEB GUI platform specific fileset  SFM-CORE.EVWEB_MAN            B.02.00.xx     EVWEB Man pages fileset  SFM-CORE.FMD_PRO_COMM         B.02.00.xx     Filter Metadata Instance Provider Common Fileset  SFM-CORE.FMD_PRO_COREIA       B.02.00.xx     Filter Metadata Instance Provider Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.FMD_PRO_COREPA       B.02.00.xx     Filter Metadata Instance Provider Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.GS_COMM              B.02.00.xx     General Services Common Fileset  SFM-CORE.GS_COREIA            B.02.00.xx     General Services Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.GS_COREPA            B.02.00.xx     General Services Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.HAS-IA               B.02.00.xx     Hardware Access ServicesIA  SFM-CORE.HAS-PA               B.02.00.xx     Hardware Access Services PA  SFM-CORE.MISC_COMM            B.02.00.xx     MISC Common Fileset  SFM-CORE.MISC_COREIA          B.02.00.xx     MISC Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.MISC_COREPA          B.02.00.xx     MISC Platform Specific Fileset  SFM-CORE.SFM_PRO_COMM         B.02.00.xx     SysFaultMgmt Provider Module COMMON  SFM-CORE.SFM_PRO_IA           B.02.00.xx     SysFaultMgmt Provider Module IA  SFM-CORE.SFM_PRO_PA           B.02.00.xx     SysFaultMgmt Provider Module PA# SFMDB                         B.02.00.xx     HP System Management Database (SFMDB)  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-DOC             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL  (SFMDB) Documentation Files  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-INC             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Header Files  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-LIB             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Library Files (Architecture dependent)  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-LIB             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Library Files (Architecture dependent)  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-MAN             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Manual Pages  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-RUN             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Executable Files (Architecture dependent)  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-RUN             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Executable Files (Architecture dependent)  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-SHA             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Share File  SFMDB.SMPGSQL-SRC             B.02.00.xx     PostgreSQL (SFMDB) Source Files

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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