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
Tape Drives: Monitoring and Recovery
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Recovery Operations Using SCF
Recovery Operations Using SCF
These SCF commands are available for controlling TAPE objects:
The SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem describes these commands.
Related Reading
For more information about tapes and tape drives, refer to the documentation listed in
Table 11-2.
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SCF Command Description
PRIMARY Causes the backup processor of a tape drive to become the
primary processor and the primary processor of the drive to
become the backup processor.
RESET Puts a tape drive in a state from which it can be restarted.
START Initiates the operation of a tape drive.
STATUS Displays current status information about a tape drive.
STOP Terminates the operation of a tape drive in a normal manner.
Table 11-2. Related Reading for Tapes and Tape Drives (page 1 of 2)
For Information About... Refer to...
Tape drives Integrity NonStop NS-Series Supported Hardware
BACKUP, RESTORE, and
BACKCOPY utilities
Guardian Disk and Tape Utilities Reference Manual (for
Enscribe and SQL/MP files)
BRCOM utility Backup and Restore 2.0 Manual (OSS and SQL/MX
files)
OSS pax
utility Open System Services Management and Operations
Guide (backup and restore of OSS files)
Performing system operations
involving tape drives
Guardian User’s Guide
Replacing tape drives CSSI Web
Recovery operations for generic
tape processes
SCF Reference Manual for the Kernel Subsystem
Recovery operations for tape
drives
SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem
Configuring tape drives SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem
Starting and stopping tape drives SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem
Using the MEDIACOM utility DSM/Tape Catalog User’s Guide
DSM/Tape Catalog Operator Interface (MEDIACOM)
Manual
Guardian User’s Guide