Superdome Servers - I/O Expansion Cabinet Guide, Fifth Edition

Chapter 7
Testing the IOX
Checking I/O Expansion Cabinet Status
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Listing Chassis or PCI Slot Populations for I/O Expansion Cabinets
You can list which I/O chassis are installed in I/O Expansion cabinets, and which PCI slots are populated in
the chassis, using these methods:
• “GSP” on page 176
This procedure (GSP Command menu, PS command, B option) lists I/O chassis population from the
Guardian Service Processor (GSP) Command menu.
• “BCH” on page 176
This procedure (BCH Information menu, IO command) lists I/O chassis and PCI slot information for
currently active I/O chassis in the local partition.
• “HP-UX” on page 177
This procedure (parstatus -I or rad -q commands) lists complex-wide I/O chassis details or local partition
PCI slot details from HP-UX running on a partition.
I/O Expansion cabinets are cabinets number 8 and 9.
GSP
This procedure (GSP Command menu, PS command, B option) lists I/O chassis population from the
Guardian Service Processor (GSP) Command menu.
Step 1. Log in to the complex’s GSP and access its Command menu.
From the GSP main menu, enter CM to access the Command menu.
Step 2. Issue the PS command, select B for cabinet info, and specify the cabinet number whose status you
want to check.
The I/O chassis population details are listed in the PS command’s output.
BCH
This procedure (BCH Information menu, IO command) lists I/O chassis and PCI slot information
for currently active I/O chassis in the local partition.
Step 1. Access the BCH interface for the partition whose IO details you want, and access the Information
menu.
Step 2. Enter the IO command from the BCH Information menu.