User`s guide

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User's Guide
Introducing PAM Domain Management Tools
Important:
Certain domain configuration and management tools are reserved for use with partitioned
servers and extended systems. Please contact your Bull Sales Representative for sales
information.
A Bull NovaScale Server domain englobes all the hardware and software resources
managed by an Operating System instance.
NovaScale 5xx5 SMP Servers are designed to operate as single SMP systems and are
delivered with one pre-configured domain.
NovaScale 5xx5 Partitioned Servers are designed to operate as one, two, three or four
hardware-independent SMP systems or domains, each running an Operating System instance
and a specific set of applications.
The PAM Domain Manager is at the heart of server operation and the Control pane is
frequently used during operation. The Domain Manager Control pane gives access to all
domain commands and domain details.
What You Can Do
Via the Domain Manager Control pane, you can:
• Manage domain configuration schemes
• Power on a domain
• Power off a domain
• Perform a domain reset
• Perform a domain force power off
• Request a domain memory dump
• View functional status
• View power logs
• View powering sequences
• View BIOS info
• View request logs
• View domain configuration, resources and status
Note:
Access to certain hardware resources, such as system disks can be limited by using the
Exclusion / Inclusion function. See Limiting Access to Hardware Resources, on page 5-66
and Excluding / Including Hardware Elements, on page 4-23. This function must be used
with care.