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-6
T
TMF warm start 16-15
X.25 lines 16-18
States
FCSA 8-3
G4SA 8-5
Stopping the system 15-16, 15-17
Storing cartridge tapes 17-3
Subsystem Control Facility (SCF)
See SCF
Subsystems
displaying configuration of 2-9
Kernel 2-10
SLSA 2-12, 6-2
storage 2-10
TCP/IP 2-9
WAN 2-13, 6-2
SWAN concentrator 16-15
System
performance 15-14
powering off 15-17
recording configuration of 2-3
stopping 15-16, 15-17
System console
TACL window 16-6
System console, recovery operations
for 1-3
System time, setting 14-5
S-series -xv
T
TACL 9-22, 16-6, B-5
Tape drives
common problems 11-7
monitoring 11-2
recovery operations for 11-8
Tapes, handling and storing 17-3
TCP/IP
configuration file 16-16
startup file 16-15
TCP/IPv6 6-3
Terminals
monitoring 12-1
recovery operations for 12-1
Time, system, setting 14-5
TMF 16-15, 16-24
states of 13-3
STATUS command 13-1, 13-2
TMFCOM command 13-1/13-3
Token-Ring ServerNet adapter (TRSA) 6-2
TRSA 6-2
TSM
CIIN file 16-8
launching 1-12
security 16-8
TSM workstation
See System console
V
ViewPoint
description of B-5
using to monitor EMS event
messages 4-2
ViewSys utility 9-7, B-6
Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) 16-5
W
Web ViewPoint
using to access the Event Viewer 4-2
X
X.25 lines 16-22
Special Characters
$SYSTEM, recovery operations for 15-20
$YMIOP.#CLCI 16-4, 16-6
$YMIOP.#CNSL 16-4
$ZHOME 16-4










