Introduction

Overview

Overview

The SFM software is a collection of tools used to monitor the health of HP servers running HP-UX. SFM retrieves information about a system’s hardware devices such as CPU, memory, power supply, and cooling devices. SFM operates within the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) environment.

WBEM is an industry-wide standards-based initiative to aid the management of large scale systems. WBEM has the following components:

•A WBEM infrastructure, such as HP WBEM services. SFM uses the Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM) WBEM service to route query requests and responses between WBEM providers and clients. Clients must be compliant with the Common Information Model (CIM) (2.7) schema of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).

•A WBEM-based network management application, such as the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH), a user interface for controlling and monitoring resources within a large-scale system. SFM can use HP SIM to display query information for local and remote systems.

•WBEM providers that obtain information. SFM includes instance and indication providers, which are one set of WBEM providers among many. SFM providers query and provide system hardware property and event information.

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