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

HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide—529869-001
C-1
C Related Reading
For more information about tools and utilities used for system operations, refer to the
documentation listed in Table C-1.
Table C-1. Related Reading for Tools and Utilities (page 1 of 5)
Tool Documentation Description
BACKCOPY
BACKUP
DCOM
DSAP
Guardian Disk and
Tape Utilities Manual
This manual describes these disk and
tape utilities: BACKCOPY, BACKUP,
DCOM, DSAP, and RESTORE. This
manual supports D-Series, G-series, and
H-series RVUs.
EMSA Event Management
Service (EMS)
Analyzer Manual
This manual describes how to specify
parameters, such as subsystem ID, event
number, text, start time and stop time,
through the EMS conversational interface.
The EMS Analyzer selects events from
EMS log files.
EMSDIST Guardian User’s
Guide
This guide describes how to use
EMSDIST to display operator messages
with a printing distributor, direct messages
to a disk file, and print messages.
Measure Measure User’s
Guide
This manual describes how to use the
Measure performance monitor to collect
and examine system performance data.
Measure Reference
Manual
This manual describes the commands,
callable procedures, and error messages
of the Measure performance monitor.
MEDIACOM DSM/Tape Catalog
User’s Guide
This guide describes the Distributed
Systems Management/Tape Catalog
(DSM/TC) software product, which allows
users to organize, manage, and track tape
volumes. It describes the components of
DSM/TC and provides instructions and
examples of how to configure, run, and
maintain the DSM/TC system.
DSM/Tape Catalog
Operator Interface
(MEDIACOM) Manual
This manual explains how to run a
MEDIACOM session and describes the
purpose and the syntax of the
MEDIACOM commands.
Guardian User’s
Guide
This guide contains information explaining
how to perform routine operations relating
to the tapes and tape drives on your
system. The guide explains the
MEDIACOM utility and provides examples
for using it.










