System Fault Management (SFM) is a suite of advanced hardware fault technologies that protects hardware against failures and reports predictive information and corrective action. SFM is available for HP-UX 11i v1 on HP 9000 systems and HP-UX 11i v2 on both HP 9000 and Integrity servers.

SFM integrates with commercial enterprise management solutions, such as HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), using industry-standard Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) instrumentation.

Integration with standards-compliant system management applications, such as HP SIM, provides a holistic and comprehensive view of the monitored systems. HP invites you to look into multi-system HP-UX 11i environment management solutions.

SFM uses WBEM, which is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard, to protect hardware against failures that could interrupt system operation by providing advanced system level monitoring capabilities.

SFM allows configuration of notification thresholds for reporting predictive information and corrective action events. Configurable thresholds enable system administrators to customise notifications to match the desired availability service level.

SFM includes providers to gather and model information and deliver it to the network management application through an industry standard interface based on Common Information Model (CIM) specifications, via XML over HTTP.

Highlights of SFM providers include the following:

• The CPU Instance Provider gathers information about the processor and processor inventory on a server.
• The Memory Instance Provider gathers information about the memory and the memory inventory on a server.
• The Environmental Instance Provider gathers information about fans and power supplies on the server.
• The EMS Wrapper Provider translates hardware events from Event Monitoring System (EMS) Hardware Monitors into a form that is compatible with WBEM.