HP-UX 11i September 2002 Release Notes

General System Administration and Performance Monitoring
Changes to System Administration Manager (SAM)
Chapter 9
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Network File Systems
• Support for NFS over TCP/IP. NFS supports exporting a file system using the
TCP/IP protocol. Accordingly, the Network File Systems area in SAM has been
enhanced to support this new NFS feature. Now, the user can choose between TCP
and UDP protocols to export file systems.
Network Interface Cards
• Added support for Gigabit Ethernet card. The system administrator can configure,
modify the supported parameters, and also unconfigure Gigabit Ethernet cards. This
new SAM support is provided to both 1000Base-T and 1000Base-SX Gigabit
Ethernet cards. This support is also available on 10.20 and 11.0 through patches.
• Added support for 100-BaseT cards. The system administrator can configure the
100-BaseT cards, modify any of the supported parameters, and unconfigure the
100-BaseT cards. This support is also available on 10.20 and 11.0 through patches.
• Added support for Independent Hardware Vendor (IHV). The system administrator
can configure network interface cards manufactured by third party vendors that
conform to the exported SAM Networking interface. Users can configure,
unconfigure, and modify any of the supported parameters of the card.
Peripheral Devices
updated for
June 2001
• Added support for PCI Card Online Addition and Replacement (OLAR) on systems
with OLAR-capable hardware, for Superdome systems, N-Class, and L-Class
systems.
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-capable). Through the Actions menu in the
Peripheral Devices / Cards screen, you can replace a card, turn on 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.
NOTE SAM patch PHCO_23004 for 11i (included in the HWEnable11i patch bundle and
automatically installed) changes the behavior of the PCI card slot LED (Attention
Indicator) to conform with the newly implemented PCI SHPC (Standard Hotplug
Controller) specification.
Essentially, the meanings for OLAR “FLASHING” (BLINKING) and “ON” LED are
reversed to meet the specification.
See “New Attention Indicator Behavior” on page 54 in Chapter 4 for more details.
• Modified cards screen layout to be hierarchical.
You can open mass storage interface cards (SCSI, fibrechannel) to view the storage
devices attached to the card. This enables you to quickly identify devices controlled
through a particular card resource and therefore affected if the card were suspended.