Flexible Service Processor


Abbreviated as FSP, this is an acronym associated with IBM eServers and other IBM systems. The Flexible Service Processor (FSP) is firmware that provides diagnostics, initialization, configuration, run-time error detection and correction. FSP is what connects the managed system to the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

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