System Fault Management (SFM) is a suite of advanced hardware fault technologies that protects hardware against failures and reports predictive information and corrective action. SMF is built into HP-UX.
SFM allows configuration of notification thresholds for reporting predictive information and corrective action events so that administrators can have a customized level of reporting. SFM uses the industry standards-based Common Information Model (CIM) specifications to send administrative reports over a network (XML over HTTP).
SFM uses WBEM, 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 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.