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
Index
HP Integrity NonStop NS-Series Operations Guide—529869-001
Index-4
O
NSKCOM B-3
Number conversion
binary to decimal D-3
decimal to binary D-7
decimal to hexadecimal D-9
decimal to octal D-8
hexadecimal to decimal D-5
octal to decimal D-4
overview D-1
O
Octal number system D-2
Octal to decimal conversion D-4
OSM
CIIN file 16-8
description of B-3
documentation C-2
guided procedures 1-13
launching 1-12
security 16-8
using to monitor and resolve
problems 3-7
OSM Event Viewer 4-2
Outages, planned 15-14
P
PAM 6-3
Parallel Library TCP/IP 2-9
PATHCOM 13-4
PATHMON processes 13-4
Pathway
commands 13-4
processes 13-4
transaction processing
applications 13-1, 13-4
PEEK program B-4
Physical interfaces (PIFs) 6-3
PIFs 6-3
Planned outages 15-14
Port Access Method (PAM) 6-3
POSTs
See Power-on self-tests (POSTs)
Power failure
how external devices respond to 14-2
preparing for
maintaining batteries 14-4
monitor batteries 14-4
monitor power supplies 14-3
ride-through time 14-3
recovery operations 14-4
response
ESS cabinets 14-3
external devices 14-2
NonStop NS-series cabinets 14-2
NonStop S-series enclosures 14-2
systems 14-2
Powering off the system 15-17
Powering on
external system devices 15-3
Power-on self-tests (POSTs)
system power-on 15-2
Printers
monitoring 12-1
recovery operations for 12-2
Problems, common
disk drive 10-11
tape drive 11-7
Processes
generic 5-2
I/O 5-2
monitoring 5-3/5-6
recovery operations for 5-6
system 5-1
Processor halts
halt code = %nn message 9-8
recovery operations for 9-9
Processors
dumps
See Dumps
freeze