HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)(updated for June 2001)
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Peripheral Devices (updated for June 2001)
• Added support for PCI Card Online Addition and Replacement
(OLAR) on systems with OLAR-capable hardware, for Superdome
systems, N-Class, and L-Class systems.
This change allows you to add or replace PCI cards online without
requiring a reboot. SAM shows the I/O slot number and the OLAR
driver state (active, suspended, error, not OLAR-capable). Through
the Actions menu in the Peripheral Devices / Cards screen,
you can replace a card, turn on the I/O slot attention LED (so you can
locate the slot more easily), bring a suspended card online, and view
OLAR-specific information about the card and slot. In addition,
different instructions are provided depending on whether or not the
card is in a slot that is capable of OLAR.
NOTE SAM patch PHCO_23004 for 11i (included in the HWEnable11i patch
bundle and automatically installed)changes the behavior of the PCI card
slot LED (Attention Indicator) to conform with the newly implemented
PCI SHPC (Standard Hotplug Controller) specification.
Essentially, the meanings for OLAR “FLASHING” (BLINKING) and
“ON” LED are reversed to meet the specification.
See “HP Superdome Servers: New Attention Indicator Behavior (new for
June 2001)” on page 47 in Chapter 2 for more details.
• Modified cards screen layout to be hierarchical.
You can open mass storage interface cards (SCSI, fibrechannel) to
view the storage devices attached to the card. This enables you to
quickly identify devices controlled through a particular card resource
and, therefore, affected if the card were suspended. Because only the
attached devices are displayed, the hierarchical view is more
convenient and easier to use then backtracking to the Devices List
from the Peripheral Devices area.
• Added new Actions menu item, Analyze Critical Resources.
This item displays a dialog listing all resources, including devices, file
systems, device files, and processes that are affected if the selected
card failed or is suspended from operation. It will work on systems
and cards that are capable of OLAR, as well as those that are not. It