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
Creating Startup and Shutdown Files
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$ZHOME Alternative
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Never specify $ZHOME for the INFILE for a process. The $ZHOME process
returns the FEINVALOP error (file-system error 2) in response to any read
operation.
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Generic processes started by the $ZPM persistence manager inherit
$YMIOP.#CLCI as the HOMETERM, INFILE, and OUTFILE unless these attributes
are changed in the configuration record for the generic process. HP recommends
that you configure most NonStop Kernel and system-level generic processes to
use $ZHOME for the HOMETERM and OUTFILE.
$ZHOME Alternative
Instead of $ZHOME, you might want to use the optional NonStop Virtual Hometerm
Subsystem (VHS) product if both of the following conditions are true:
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The processes you are configuring cannot handle error responses returned if
$YMIOP.#CNSL or $YMIOP.#CLCI is not available.
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The process must perform read operations to the device.
Example Command Files
This section describes and shows examples of command files that can be used to start
up and shut down the server:
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Examples and sample programs are for illustration only and might not be suited for
your particular purpose.
HP does not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations regarding the use or
the results of the use of any examples or sample programs in any documentation.
You must verify the applicability of any example or sample program before placing
the software into production use.
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These examples are for a system whose configuration has been changed from the
factory-installed configuration. Your system’s initial configuration will differ from
these examples.
The startup files in this section assume that the objects they start have already
been added to the system configuration database.
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The IP addresses used in this section are examples only. If you use the example
files described in this section on your system, you must change the IP addresses
in these examples to IP addresses that are appropriate for your LAN environment.
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The configuration track-ID for the SWAN concentrator used in the example files,
X001XX, is also an example.
If you use the example files described in this section on your system, you must
change the configuration track-ID used in these examples to the actual
configuration track-ID assigned to your SWAN concentrator.










