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

Determining Your System Configuration
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Displaying SCF Configuration Information for
Subsystems
To get detailed configuration information in command format for all tape drives on the
system, issue this command:
-> INFO TAPE $*,OBEYFORM
ServerNet LAN Systems Access (SLSA) Subsystem
Before using commands listed in Table 2-5, type this command to make the SLSA
subsystem the default object:
> SCF ASSUME PROCESS $ZZLAN
The SLSA subsystem provides access to parallel LAN and WAN I/O for Integrity
NonStop servers. The SLSA subsystem provides access to Ethernet, token-ring, and
multifunction I/O board Ethernet adapters and to the ServerNet wide area network
(SWAN) concentrator.
When displaying configuration files for adapter and LIF devices in the SLSA
subsystem, you can use the OBEYFORM option with the INFO command to display
currently defined attribute values in the format that you would use to set up a
configuration file. Each attribute appears as a syntactically correct system configuration
command. For example:
ADD ADAPTER $ZZLAN.E0154, &
LOCATION (1 , 1 , 54 ) , &
TYPE G4SA, &
ACCESSLIST (0, 1)
Table 2-5. Displaying Information for the SLSA Subsystem ($ZZLAN)
To Display Information About These
Configured Objects Enter This Command
The SLSA subsystem manager LISTDEV SLSA
All SLSA subsystem object and process
names
NAMES $ZZLAN
All configured adapters, with
group/module/slot and adapter type
INFO ADAPTER *
A specific adapter INFO ADAPTER adapter, DETAIL
All logical interface (LIF) names, with
associated MAC addresses, associated
physical interface (PIF) names, and port
types
INFO LIF *
A specific LIF INFO LIF lifname, DETAIL
A specific PIF INFO PIF pifname, DETAIL
All ServerNet addressable controller (SAC)
names
INFO SAC *
A specific SAC INFO SAC sacname.n, DETAIL










