NonStop Operations Guide for H-Series and J-Series RVUs

POSTs, 176
see also Power-on self-tests (POSTs)
Power failure
how external devices respond to , 171
preparing for
maintaining batteries , 173
monitor batteries , 173
monitor power supplies, 173
ride-through time , 173
recovery operations, 174
response
ESS cabinets, 172
external devices, 171
IB CLIMs, 172
IP CLIMs, 172
NonStop cabinets, 171
NonStop S-series enclosures, 171
SAS disk drive enclosures, 172
Storage CLIMs, 172
systems , 171
Telco CLIMs, 172
Powering off the system , 192
Powering on
external system devices, 177
power cycling processors, 179, 181
system from low-power state, 176
system from no power state, 177
Power-on self-tests (POSTs)
system power-on, 176
Printers
monitoring, 162
recovery operations for, 162
Problems, common
disk drive, 150, 151
tape drive, 159
Processes
generic, 80
I/O, 79
monitoring , 80
recovery operations for, 84
system, 79
Processor halts, 129
halt code = %nn message, 129
recovery operations for, 130
Processors
dumping to disk, 134
dumps, 135
see also Dumps
freeze, 129
halt, 129
halting processors, 130
hang, 128
monitoring, 59
recovery operations for , 129
R
RCVDUMP utility, 136
Recovery operations
for $SYSTEM, 194
for disk drives, 151, 152
for printers, 162
for processor halt, 130
for processors , 128
for ServerNet fabrics, 105
for system console, 28
for tape drives, 160
RESTORE utility, 225
S
SACs, 86
SCF, 225
commands
LISTDEV, 41
STATUS ADAPTER, 89
STATUS DISK, 145
STATUS LIF, 90
STATUS LINE, 97
STATUS PIF, 90
STATUS SAC, 89
STATUS TAPE, 157
STATUS, examples of, 61
determining device states, 60
managing disks, 161
object states, 62
powering off the system, 193
storage device recovery, 151, 160
used for system monitoring, 60
SCSI (SAS) disk drive enclosure, 33
ServerNet addressable controllers (SACs), 86
ServerNet clusters, 100
ServerNet connectivity, 100
ServerNet fabrics
monitoring , 102
recovery operations for, 105
ServerNet switch board, 107
Setting system time, 174
Shutdown files
about, 214
ATP6100 lines, 215
automating, 201
CP6100 lines, 215
Expand-over-IP lines, 216
security, 214
sequence, 201, 214
spooler, 217
system shutdown file, 214
TMF, 217
X.25 lines, 216
SNAX/APN, 87
Software Essentials, 57, 224
see also NonStop Software Essentials
Solid state disks (SSDs), 142, 172
SPOOLCOM, 225
Spooler, 209, 217
Startup files
about, 203
ATP6100 lines, 212
automating, 201
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