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
Overview of Monitoring and Recovery
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Tools for Checking the Status of System Hardware
Table 3-1. Monitoring System Components (page1of3)
Resource
Monitored
Using These
Tools See...
Adapters for communications
subsystems:
G4SA
OSM Service
Connection
SCF interface
to various
subsystems
Using the OSM Service Connection
on
page 3-7
Section 6, Communications Subsystems:
Monitoring and Recovery
Section 8, I/O Adapters and Modules:
Monitoring and Recovery
OSM User’s Guide (or OSM Service
Connection online help)
Adapters for the storage
subsystem:
Fibre Channel ServerNet
adapter (FCSA)
OSM Service
Connection
SCF interface
to the storage
subsystem
Using the OSM Service Connection
on
page 3-7
Section 8, I/O Adapters and Modules:
Monitoring and Recovery
OSM User’s Guide (or OSM Service
Connection online help)
AWAN access server RAS
management
tool
AWAN 3886 Server Installation and
Configuration Guide
Communications lines SCF interface
to the various
subsystems
Section 6, Communications Subsystems:
Monitoring and Recovery
Disk drive enclosure (and
individual disk drives)
attached to FCSAs
OSM Service
Connection
SCF interface
to the storage
subsystem
DSAP
Using the OSM Service Connection on
page 3-7
Section 8, I/O Adapters and Modules:
Monitoring and Recovery
Section 10, Disk Drives: Monitoring and
Recovery
Guardian User’s Guide.
Disk drives attached to
ServerNet adapters in legacy
S-series enclosures
OSM Service
Connection
SCF interface
to the storage
subsystem
DSAP
Using the OSM Service Connection
on
page 3-7
Section 10, Disk Drives: Monitoring and
Recovery
Guardian User’s Guide
Modular I/O adapter module
(IOAM) and subcomponents,
including ServerNet switch
boards, power supplies, and
fans
OSM Service
Connection
Using the OSM Service Connection
on
page 3-7
Monitor Batteries
on page 14-4
OSM User’s Guide (or OSM Service
Connection online help)