Release Notes for System Fault Management (Sept 2004 Release)

• Providers Supplied
• Changes
• Known Issues
• Patches Required
• Supported Systems
• Supported EMS Monitors
• Defect Reporting
• Product Structure

These release notes cover the September 2004 Release of System Fault Management (SysFaultMgmt).

System Fault Management (SysFaultMgmt) is a collection of tools for monitoring the health of HP servers and getting information about hardware, such as memory and CPU. These tools operate within the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) environment.

NOTE: This version of SysFaultMgmt does not support vPars systems.

For the latest and most complete information on SysFaultMgmt, see the "System Fault Management" section on the Diagnostics Homepage at http://docs.hp.com/hpux/diag/index.html.

Providers Supplied

The following providers are supplied:

• CPU Instance Provider (gathers information about the central processor units of HP servers)
• Memory Instance Provider (gathers information about the memory configuration of HP servers)
• EMS-to-WBEM Wrapper Provider (translates hardware events from EMS hardware monitors into "indications," a format that is compatible with WBEM)

Changes

Changes in SysFaultMgmt for this release include:

1. Support was added for HP Integrity Servers
2. The CPU Provider now reports the serial number and model string for processors on Itanium platforms, and on some PA platforms that report serial/part numbers.
3. The Memory Provider now reports the serial number and part number for DIMMs on all Itanium platforms, and on some PA platforms that report serial/part numbers.

Known Issues

• General
  If the SysFaultMgmt product is installed on your system, you must take the following steps, before and after updating the OnlineDiag product:
  1. Shut down the SysFaultMgmt subsystem via the command line:

     /sbin/init.d/cimserver stop
     

  2. Perform the OnlineDiag update.
  3. After the update is completed, restart the SysFaultMgmt subsystem via the command line:

     /sbin/init.d/cimserver start
     

  NOTE: Should you need to kill monitoring during normal system operation, you must use steps 1 and 3, above, to avoid an automatic restart of monitoring; step 2 is the action you need to perform while monitoring is turned off.

  Future updates to SysFaultMgmt and OnlineDiag will resolve this problem.

  • The current implementation of the logging mechanism assumes that the path to the log file (target specified in the configuration file) already exists. For example, if the target is specified as /abc/def/ghi.log, the path /abc/def/ should already exist, and should be writable by root-user.
• CPU Instance Provider
  • None
• Memory Instance Provider
  • None
• EMS Wrapper Provider
  • None

Patches Required

N/A for this release.

Supported Systems

SysFaultMgmt currently supports the following:

• PA-RISC servers:
• rp24X0 Servers
• rp54X0 Servers
• rp7400 Servers
• rp7410 Servers
• rp8400 Servers
• SD16000, SD32000, SD64000 Servers
• HP Integrity Servers
• HP Integrity Servers SD16A, SD32A, SD64A
• HP Integrity Server rx7620
• HP Integrity Server rx8620
• HP Integrity Server rx2600
• HP Integrity Server rx4640
• HP Integrity Server rx5670

The EMS-to-WBEM Wrapper Provider supports all platforms running HP-UX 11i v2.

When a client makes a call to the CPU or Memory Provider on an unsupported system, a "CIMNotSupported" exception will occur. The EMS-to-WBEM Wrapper Provider, however, will work on all HP-UX 11i v2 platforms, including those that are not supported by the CPU or Memory Providers.

Supported EMS Monitors

For PA-RISC servers running HP-UX 11i v2:

• LPMC (now CPU) (lpmc_em)
• Memory (dm_memory)
• Core HW (dm_core_hw)
• Chassis Code (dm_chassis)
• Disk (disk_em)
• High Availability Disk Array (ha_disk_array)
• Integrity Core Hardware Monitor(ia64_corehw)
• IPMI Forward Progress Log Monitor (fpl_em)

For Itanium servers:

• 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)
• High Availability Disk Array Monitor (ha_disk_array)
• Itanium Memory Monitor (memory_ia64)

Defect Reporting

Use CHART to report defects in System Fault Management. The project name is diag.sfm.providers. If you don't have access to CHART, contact an HP representative to enter a defect for you.

Product Structure

The SysFaultMgmt providers are installed as part of the SysFaultMgmt bundle (product number SYSFAULTMGMT). In addition, the EMS Wrapper provider utilizes the EMS framework, product number B7609BA.

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Structure of the depot.  It contains one bundle: SysFaultMgmt
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SD Bundle: SysFaultMgmt

Output when "swlist -l product SysFaultMgmt" is entered:

# SysFaultMgmt                    A.02.00.01.02    HPUX System Fault
Management
  SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE           A.02.00          HPUX System Fault
Management



Output when "swlist SysFaultMgmt -l subproduct" is entered:

# SysFaultMgmt           A.02.00.01.02   HPUX System Fault Management
# SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE  A.02.00         HPUX System Fault Management
# SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE.CPUPROVIDER      CPUPROVIDER
# SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE.EMSWRAPPER       EMSWRAPPER
# SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE.GS               GS
# SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE.HAS              HAS
# SysFaultMgmt.SFM-CORE.MEMPROVIDERS     MEMPROVIDERS



  

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