HP-UX 11i Release Notes (December 2000)

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM) (new)
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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-able”). The Actions
menu in the Peripheral Devices screen allows the user to replace a
card, light 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.
• Modified cards screen layout to be hierarchical.
Mass storage interface cards (SCSI, fibrechannel) can be opened to
view the storage devices attached to the card. This allows a user to
quickly identify devices controlled through a particular card resource
that would be 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 would be affected if the
selected card failed or was suspended from operation. It will work on
systems and cards that are capable of OLAR, as well as those that are
not. It determines if any of the resources are critical to HP-UX or
SAM, so that either SAM or HP-UX would fail if the resource were
lost. This menu item properly accounts for resources that have
alternates, backups, or mirrors.
• Added support for DLT device tape densities (DLT_42500_24,
DLT_42500_56, DLT_62500_64, DLT_81633_64).
• Added device support for PCI multiplexer needed for Terminals
and Modems area.
• Added device support for HP SureStore Disk Array FC60 and the HP
SureStore Disk Array XP256 (as described in the Disks and File
Systems section).
Printers and Plotters
• Added support for the Super I/O Parallel Interface. This allows SAM
to recognize this parallel interface and configure a printer for it.