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Listing and Managing Server Hardware
Tools for Listing and Managing Hardware
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Tools for Listing and Managing Hardware
You can use several software tools to list server hardware details and
manage the hardware in a server complex. These tools have features that
overlap for some tasks, but each tool also has unique features.
The tools for listing and managing system hardware are:
• Service Processor (GSP or MP) menus
Service processor menus provide a complex-wide service interface
that can allow access to all hardware and partitions.
NOTE The service processor in HP servers is sometimes called the
Management Processor (MP) and sometimes the Guardian Service
Processor (GSP).
Regardless of the name, the service processor in these servers
provides approximately the same features and performs essentially
the same role.
Throughout this document the term “service processor” refers to both
the MP and GSP service processors.
Hardware management features include the service processor
Command menu’s DU, ID, PE, PS, and SYSREV commands.
• Boot Console Handler (BCH) interfaces
The BCH interface is the method for interacting with a partition
before it has booted HP-UX.
Hardware management features include the BCH interface’s
Configuration menu, Interface menu, and Service menu.
• HP-UX Commands
HP-UX commands allow you to manage and monitor partitions and
hardware within a server complex from HP-UX running on any of the
server’s partitions.
Hardware management features include the parstatus, frupower,
fruled, and rad commands, among many others.
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