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
Index-1
Index
A
Asynchronous Terminal Process 6100
(ATP6100) 6-3
ATM 3 ServerNet adapter (ATM3SA) 6-2
ATM3SA 6-2
ATP6100 6-3, 16-22
Automating
system shutdown 16-3
system startup 16-3
B
BACKCOPY utility B-2
BACKUP utility
backing up configuration and operations
files 9-20
description of B-2
Batteries
charging 14-4
maintaining 14-4
Battery ride-through 15-22
Binary number system D-2
Binary to decimal conversion D-3
Bus dumps
See Dumps
C
Cartridge tape, handling and storing 17-3
CIIN file
contents 16-6
establishing 16-7
file name 16-7
initial location of 16-3
modifying 16-7
ownership 16-7
security 16-7, 16-8
specifying 16-7
system behavior when absent 16-8
Cleaning enclosures 17-2
Collector (spooler), checking status of 12-2
Command files
examples 16-5/16-24
Communications line 6-10
Communications Process subsystem
(CP6100) 6-3
Compaq TSM
See TSM
Configuration
files
CONFTEXT
See CONFTEXT file
INITIAL_COMMAND_FILE 16-7
TCP/IP stacks 16-16
CONFLIST file 9-20
CONFTEXT file 9-20
INITIAL_COMINT_INFILE 16-7
INITIAL_COMMAND_FILE 16-7
Converting numbers
See Number conversion
CP6100 6-3
CPU n has been dumped to dumpfile
message 9-18
D
DCOM 10-15, B-2
Decimal number system D-2
Decimal to binary conversion D-7
Decimal to hexadecimal conversion D-9
Decimal to octal conversion D-8
Direct-connect line
shutdown file 16-23
startup file 16-19
Disk Compression Program
(DCOM) 10-15, B-2
Disk drives
common problems 10-11
description of 10-2