HW Inventory

[f. halili]

I have a rp7410. How will I know if it is using npars or vpars? How will I know how many cellboards are in the machine? How many slots are used/unused? How many memory slots are used/unused?

Thanks,
f. halili

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

I think a number of tools together might be helpful.

ioscan will get you started.

Then I would try cstm or mstm or xstm to get a better picture.

Which to use depends on whether you like mouse or menus better.

SEP

[Anthony Lennan]

There are various things you can look at to get the info you after.

I'm not aware of a specific command to show if the hardware if using npars or not. In this case I would probably log on to the server and do an ioscan and see if you can see all of the I/O paths or not. In this case it helps to know your hardware.

To see the I/O slots that are being used you can try the command: rad -q

To see the memory slots, I think you can see that from the GSP level.

You could also look at stm to get an overview of the hardware.

I hope that info helps. I'm sure the other forumers will be quick to give you alternative methods.

Cheers,
Anthony

[Pete Randall]

On your console, do b to get into the MP (the GSP equivalent for rp7410(s)). Once there, select the virtual front panel (vfp) display, it will ask you to select a partition and present you with a list of partitions. If you only see one, you're not running npars. When you're done, select the console mode (co) and it will again ask you to select a partition.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Sorry, forgot about the vpars portion of the question. Run "vparstatus". If you are running vpars, you will get output similar to this:

# vparstatus
[Virtual Partition]
Boot
Virtual Partition Name State Attributes Kernel Path Opts
============================== ===== ========== ========================= =====
sire Up Dyn,Auto /stand/vmunix
dam Up Dyn,Auto /stand/vmunix -lq

[Virtual Partition Resource Summary]
CPU Num Memory (MB)
CPU Bound/ IO # Ranges/
Virtual Partition Name Min/Max Unbound devs Total MB Total MB
============================== ================ ==== ====================
sire 1/ 4 1 0 4 0/ 0 1536
dam 3/ 4 3 0 14 0/ 0 8192

If you're not running vpars, you will probably get "sh: vparstatus: not found " .


Pete

[Dan Yeatman]

parstatus will show you summary of npar configuration, see examples attached.
Use ioscan to get information on io slot usage and vparstatus to determine vpar information, if any.

# parstatus
Warning: No action specified. Default behaviour is display all.
[Complex]
Complex Name :
Complex Capacity
Compute Cabinet (2 cell capable) : 1
Active GSP Location : cabinet 0
Model : 9000/800/rp7410
Serial Number : U
Current Product Number : A7112A
Original Product Number : A7112A
Complex Profile Revision : 1.0
The total number of Partitions Present : 2

[Cabinet]
Cabinet I/O Bulk Power Backplane
Fans Fans Supplies Power Boards
OK/ OK/ OK/ OK/
Cab Failed/ Failed/ Failed/ FAILED/
Num Cabinet Type N Status N Status N Status N Status GSP
=== ============ ========= ========= ========== ============ ======
0 rp7410 4/ 0/ N+ 6/ 0/ N+ 2/ 0/ N+ N/A active

Notes: N+ = There are one or more spare items (fans/power supplies).
N = The number of items meets but does not exceed the need.
N- = There are insufficient items to meet the need.
? = The adequacy of the cooling system/power supplies is unknown.

[Cell]
CPU Memory Use
OK/ (GB) Core On
Hardware Actual Deconf/ OK/ Cell Next Par
Location Usage Max Deconf Connected To Capable Boot Num
========== ============ ======= ========= =================== ======= ==== ===
cab0,cell0 active core 2/0/4 2.0/ 2.0 cab0,bay0,chassis0 yes yes 1
cab0,cell1 active core 2/0/4 4.0/ 0.0 cab0,bay0,chassis1 yes yes 0

[Chassis]
Core Connected Par
Hardware Location Usage IO To Num
=================== ============ ==== ========== ===
cab0,bay0,chassis0 active yes cab0,cell0 1
cab0,bay0,chassis1 active yes cab0,cell1 0

[Partition]
Par # of # of I/O
Num Status Cells Chassis Core cell Partition Name (first 30 chars)
=== ============ ===== ======== ========== ===============================
0 active 1 1 cab0,cell1 K0
1 active 1 1 cab0,cell0 K1

Do this for each cell and you will get details on memory, etc..
# parstatus -V -c 0
[Cell]
Hardware Location : cab0,cell0
Global Cell Number : 0
Actual Usage : active core
Normal Usage : base
Connected To : cab0,bay0,chassis0
Core Cell Capable : yes
Firmware Revision : 17.6
Failure Usage : activate
Use On Next Boot : yes
Partition Number : 1
Partition Name : K

[CPU Details]
Type : 5E60
Speed : 650 MHz
CPU Status
=== ======
0 ok
1 ok
2 absent
3 absent
CPUs
===========
OK : 2
Deconf : 0
Max : 4

[Memory Details]
DIMM Size (MB) Status
==== ========= =========
0A 512 failed
0B 512 failed
0C 512 failed
0D 512 failed
1A 512 ok
1B 512 ok
1C 512 ok
1D 512 ok
Memory
=========================
DIMM OK : 4
DIMM Deconf : 4
Max DIMMs : 16
Memory OK : 2.00 GB
Memory Deconf : 2.00 GB

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[Mark Nieuwboer]

Hi Halili,

On a rp7410 you only have one npar the machine its self. You can have more vpars on the machine.
Before you start you have to do a ioscan of the machine after you made a vpar and start this you cant get a full ioscan.
The cpu and memmory you can always see through the console and the status of vpar with vparstatus.


grtz. Mark

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

to gather other information on the system like your memory and cpu's i/o

run STM and select the device and the run the information tool. This will tell you exactly what memory is in what slot and size, and which are empty slots

andy

[Anthony Lennan]

Mark, the RP7410 does support hard partitions. It can have 1 or 2 npars.

You may be thinking of RP7400's (N-Classes) which don't support hard partitions.

Rgds,
Anthony

[Mark Nieuwboer]

Thanx for the correction.
we have also rp7420 and the are better hard partition then the rp7410. This i get mixed up that was the reason why we din't made 2 npar on the rp7410.

[f. halili]

Thanks guys !!

Got an output via # parstatus.
Got an output via # rad -q.

Tried #vparstatus but no output ... so this means we are using npars..=)).

Will use xtm to get the others.