Specifications

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Table of Contents
Preface ................................................................................................................................................ 6
About this manual........................................................................................................................................6
What’s new in this manual...........................................................................................................................6
Shelves and modules supported .................................................................................................................7
Where to get more product information.......................................................................................................8
Notational conventions ................................................................................................................................9
Chapter 1: Shelf Management Overview........................................................................................ 10
Shelf management features ......................................................................................................................10
Shelf Manager compliance........................................................................................................................12
Physical distribution of the shelf management infrastructure ....................................................................12
Major elements of the shelf management infrastructure............................................................................14
Chapter 2: Software Architecture ................................................................................................... 18
Shelf management architecture.................................................................................................................18
HPI architecture.........................................................................................................................................20
Basic and enhanced shelf management operation....................................................................................24
Software redundancy.................................................................................................................................25
Shelf cooling..............................................................................................................................................33
Chapter 3: Configuring Shelf Manager and HPI Behavior ............................................................ 36
Disabling or enabling the Shelf Manager...................................................................................................36
Changing the Shelf Manager operating mode...........................................................................................39
Overview of Shelf Manager and HPI configuration....................................................................................40
Editing the shmgr.conf configuration file ...................................................................................................42
Configuring Shelf Manager behavior.........................................................................................................43
Configuring HPI behavior ..........................................................................................................................46
Configuring the Shelf Manager in basic mode...........................................................................................50
Editing the rsyshsd.conf configuration file .................................................................................................51
Configuring blade HPI behavior.................................................................................................................51