NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide (H06.03+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Guide
- 1 Introduction to Integrity NonStop NSSeries Operations
- When to Use This Section
- Understanding the Operational Environment
- What Are the Operator Tasks?
- Monitoring the System and Performing Recovery Operations
- Preparing for and Recovering from Power Failures
- Stopping and Powering Off theSystem
- Powering On and Starting the System
- Creating Startup and Shutdown Files
- Performing Preventive Maintenance
- Operating Disk Drives and Tape Drives
- Responding to Spooler Problems
- Updating Firmware
- Determining the Cause of a Problem: A Systematic Approach
- Logging On to an Integrity NonStop Server
- Service Procedures
- 2 Determining Your System Configuration
- 3 Overview of Monitoring and Recovery
- 4 Monitoring EMS Event Messages
- 5 Processes: Monitoring and Recovery
- 6 Communications Subsystems: Monitoring and Recovery
- 7 ServerNet Resources: Monitoring and Recovery
- 8 I/O Adapters and Modules: Monitoring and Recovery
- 9 Processors and Components: Monitoring and Recovery
- When to Use This Section
- Overview of the NonStop Blade Complex
- Monitoring and Maintaining Processors
- Identifying Processor Problems
- Recovery Operations for Processors
- Recovery Operations for a Processor Halt
- Halting One or More Processors
- Reloading a Single Processor on a Running Server
- Recovery Operations for a System Hang
- Enabling/Disabling Processor and System Freeze
- Freezing the System and Freeze-Enabled Processors
- Dumping a Processor to Disk
- Backing Up a Processor Dump to Tape
- Replacing Processor Memory
- Replacing the Processor Board and Processor Entity
- Submitting Information to Your Service Provider
- Related Reading
- 10 Disk Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
- 11 Tape Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
- 12 Printers and Terminals: Monitoring and Recovery
- 13 Applications: Monitoring and Recovery
- 14 Power Failures: Preparation and Recovery
- 15 Starting and Stopping the System
- When to Use This Section
- Powering On a System
- Starting a System
- Minimizing the Frequency of Planned Outages
- Stopping Application, Devices, and Processes
- Stopping the System
- Powering Off a System
- Troubleshooting and Recovery Operations
- Fans Are Not Turning
- System Does Not Appear to Be Powered On
- Green LED Is Not Lit After POSTs Finish
- Amber LED on a Component Remains Lit After the POST Finishes
- Components Fail When Testing the Power
- Recovering From a System Load Failure
- Getting a Corrupt System Configuration File Analyzed
- Recovering From a Reload Failure
- Exiting the OSM Low-Level Link
- Opening Startup Event Stream and Startup TACL Windows
- Related Reading
- 16 Creating Startup and Shutdown Files
- Automating System Startup and Shutdown
- Processes That Represent the System Console
- Example Command Files
- CIIN File
- Writing Efficient Startup and Shutdown Command Files
- How Process Persistence Affects Configuration and Startup
- Tips for Startup Files
- Startup File Examples
- Tips for Shutdown Files
- Shutdown File Examples
- 17 Preventive Maintenance
- A Operational Differences Between Systems Running GSeries and HSeries RVUs
- B Tools and Utilities for Operations
- When to Use This Appendix
- BACKCOPY
- BACKUP
- Disk Compression Program (DCOM)
- Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP)
- EMSDIST
- Event Management Service Analyzer (EMSA)
- File Utility Program (FUP)
- Measure
- MEDIACOM
- NonStop NET/MASTER
- NSKCOM and the Kernel-Managed Swap Facility (KMSF)
- OSM Package
- PATHCOM
- PEEK
- RESTORE
- SPOOLCOM
- Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
- HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL)
- TMFCOM
- Web ViewPoint
- ViewPoint
- ViewSys
- C Related Reading
- D Converting Numbers
- Safety and Compliance
- Index
Disk Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
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Recovery Operations for Disk Drives
Recovery Operations for Disk Drives
These SCF commands control DISK objects:
For more information, see the SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem.
Command Description
ABORT Terminates the operation of a disk drive immediately, leaving it in the
STOPPED state, HARDDOWN substate.
ALTER Changes attribute values for a storage device.
BYPASS Bypasses one or more disks in a Fibre Channel disk-drive enclosure.
CONTROL Issues disk-specific commands.
PRIMARY For a disk drive, causes the backup processor to become the primary
processor and the primary processor to become the backup processor.
RENAME Changes the name of a disk drive.
RESET Puts a disk drive in a state from which it can be restarted.
START Initiates the operation of a disk drive.
STOP Terminates the operation of a disk drive in a normal manner.
SWITCH Switches paths to a disk drive.
Table 10-3. Common Recovery Operations for Disk Drives (page 1 of 2)
Problem Recovery
Free-space
fragmentation
Use the Disk Compression Program (DCOM) to consolidate disk space.
See Disk Compression Program (DCOM)
on page B-2.
Disk full 1. Use DSAP to identify large, old, and little used files.
2. If you are authorized:
•
Use the BACKUP utility to back up these disk files to tape and then
purge them from the disk. Do not purge important system files.
•
Move files to another disk. Do not move important system files.
•
Ask users to purge files.
For more information about these utilities, see BACKUP
on page B-2 and
Disk Space Analysis Program (DSAP) on page B-2.
Down disk or
disk path
Recovery Operations for a Down Disk or Down Disk Path
on page 10-14
Defective
sectors
If you are authorized, use the SCF CONTROL DISK, SPARE command to
spare defective sectors. For information on reinitializing the disk drive, see
the SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem.
Disks come formatted from HP. No disk format utility is available. Return
any disk that requires formatting to HP.