User`s guide

90 NovaScale 4020 User’s Guide
Properties Button
This button will force a refresh of the SDR properties and display them in a dialog. Included in
the properties are: IPMI version, Number of SDRs, Last Add Time, Last Erase Time, and Free
Space Remaining in bytes. If there is an error retrieving the SDR properties, an error message
is displayed.
Reload Button
This button will clear the screen of the currently loaded SDRs and reload the SDRs from the
BMC. This load procedure is identical to the load procedure that occurs when the viewer is
opened.
FRU Viewer
The FRU Viewer sub-task allows you to view the current FRUs in the system.
NOTE
The FRU Viewer task is only available on the local version of the SMU.
This task is not available when running the remote version.
The FRU Viewer allows you to view the current system FRUs on the target system. The FRU
Viewer task supports the following:
• Viewing the current system FRUs
• Viewing the current system FRU properties.
• Saving the selected FRU to a file
• Viewing a saved FRU file
When you select the view records sub-task from the FRU menu, it immediately retrieves the
system FRUs. In order to discover the system FRUs, the viewer must first scan the system
SDRs and search the records for FRU locations.
After the scan of the SDRs is complete, the viewer starts loading the FRUs. If an error occurs
while searching the SDRs, the viewer will try to load the FRUs based on the locator records
found. The following error is displayed:
Error searching for FRU device locator records, not all FRUs may
be displayed. Updating your system’s SDRs may correct this
problem
As the FRUs are loaded, a dialog window updates you with the progress. A progress window is
updated for every FRU read. The message displayed is updated for each FRU.
After the FRUs are loaded, the FRU list and FRU area viewer are displayed. By default, the
first FRU in the list is selected and displayed. If there is an error while retrieving the FRUs, the
following message is displayed:
Error reading FRU at Device D Bus B ID I
D, B, and I are the values from the device locator record. This message will vary depending on
the FRU type, but it will display sufficient information for you to display/update the FRU with
the FRUSDR utility.
You are unable to stop either the FRU locator search or the FRU load process.