UPS Utility Manual
1 INTRODUCTION
UPSUTIL is an easy-to-use support tool that helps to manage the UPS Monitor/iX UPS-
management subsystem on MPE/iX
HP3000 systems.
Working in conjunction with the system's UPS Monitor/iX UPS management subsystem, UPSUTIL provides easily
accessible functions that assist authorized users to:
•
check the system to see if the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem is running.
•
check the system to see what, if any, UPS LDEVS (logical devices) have been configured.
•
check the current operational status of all configured UPS devices on the system.
•
control (start, stop, restart, set UPS Monitor configuration file) the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem while the HP3000
system is running.
These functions make it easy to determine whether the running system has been configured
correctly for UPS devices,
whether the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem is communicating correctly with the configured UPS
devices, and allow an online
user to have "stop and start" control over the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem.
The "stop and start" control is valuable in cases where a UPS device may have been removed from
the system for repair
and is now being reinstalled in the system, or has had its I/O
interface cable accidentally or intentionally disconnected and
now reconnected. In either of these cases, without UPSUTIL it is necessary to re-boot the system in order to re-
start the
monitoring of that UPS device by the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem. But with UPSUTIL, the UPS Monitor process may
be restarted with the system up,
without rebooting the system. This ability reduces system downtime and increases system
availability.
1.1 Intended Users
UPSUTIL is intended to be used by authorized system users who perform system management functions for the HP3000
system, such as:
• System Managers
•
System Operators
•
HP Customer Engineers
•
HP Response Center Engineers
UPSUTIL is not intended for use by "ordinary" system users.
(Refer to the
Product Invocation and Security
section of this document for information about limiting usage of UPSUTIL.)
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