Question from HP labs -- PCI operations on cellular systems

[Brad Klein]

The HP Partition Management group would like to understand how users of HP's cellular systems perform online PCI operations. Specifically for administrators of HP Superdome servers (SD16000, SD32000, and SD64000) and HP midrange servers (rp7410 and rp8400) how many times in the past 12 months have you performed an online PCI operation, such as a PCI online addition or PCI online replacement?

If you've performed one or more online PCI operation, what tool did you use?
a) Partition Manager, parmgr(1M)
b) SAM (1M),
c) rad(1M) command, or
d) other (please specify)

Thanks in advance for your replies,

HP Partition Management group.

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi,
Out of these I only use 'rad'. (I don't use SAM very often at all ...) We've used 'rad' a number of times to move specifically HBA cards from server to server when required. Here is the typical procedure we use:

# rad -q (to get the slot numbering)
# rad -f ATTENTION 0-0-0-1 (turn on the disco light)
# rad -a 0-0-0-1 (get the slot dependencies if any)
# rad -s 0-0-0-1 (suspend operation if there is a card already installed to be removed)
# rad -o 0-0-0-1 (turn off the power to the slot
Remove the card, or add the card)
# rad -i 0-0-0-1 (turn on the power to the slot)
# rad -r 0-0-0-1 (Resume any suspended operations)
# rad -f OFF 0-0-0-1 (turn off the disco light)

Cheers
Michael

[Karthik S S]

I have worked on RP8400. And I have always used "rad" (OLA/R) to perform PCI related operations.

-Karthik S S

[Massimo Bianchi]

I used rad, on a SD16000.

It was for testing the OLAR itself, just a couple of times.

After that, the functionality was used just one time, due to a card failure, for replacing.

massimo