User`s guide

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User's Guide
Introducing PAM Monitoring Tools
Main Central SubSystem (CSS) hardware components are managed by the comprehensive
Platform Administration and Maintenance (PAM) software specifically designed for Bull
NovaScale Servers.
Note:
Peripheral devices such as disk racks, PCI adapters, KVM switch, local console, and the PAP
unit are managed by the Operating System and/or by dedicated software.
For details on how to monitor these devices, please refer to the user documentation provided
on the Bull NovaScale Server Resource CD-Rom.
PAM software permanently monitors and regulates CSS hardware during operation, ensuring
automatic cooling for compliance with environmental requirements, power ON / OFF
sequences, component presence and functional status checks, and event handling and
forwarding.
In-depth monitoring is a Customer Administrator function and the PAM Hardware Monitor is
only available to users with administrator access rights. However, all connected users are
permanently and automatically informed of CSS functional status via the PAM Status pane
and of domain status via the PAM Domain Manager Control pane.
The PAM Event Messaging system offers comprehensive event message subscription options
allowing both connected and non-connected users to be informed of server status. See
Customizing the PAM Event Messaging System, on page 5-133 for details.
To refresh the PAM display:
• Click the Refresh Tree button in the PAM Tree toolbar to refresh the PAM Tree.
• Click a node in the PAM Tree to refresh the corresponding Control pane display.
• Click the Refresh Web Page button to return to the PAM Home Page.
Note:
DO NOT use the Refresh option obtained by right clicking the mouse in the browser window.