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Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards
OLAR Tools and Interfaces
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 369
OLAR Tools and Interfaces
This section discusses the tools available for performing online card
addition and replacement tasks. Also given here are example uses of
some of the commonly used OLAR commands and interfaces.
The primary tools for performing PCI card OLAR tasks are the System
Administration Manager utility (SAM, /usr/sbin/sam) and Partition
Manager (/opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr).
NOTE Always use SAM or Partition Manager when performing card addition
and replacement tasks, because these tools perform critical resource
analysis and properly execute all scripts and commands in the correct
sequences.
The /usr/bin/rad command and other utilities also can provide useful
OLAR-related information.
Details on the OLAR tools and interfaces are given in Table 8-1.
Table 8-1 Tools and Interfaces for PCI Card Online Addition
and Replacement (OLAR)
OLAR Tool/Interface Description
System Administration
Manager (SAM)
/usr/sbin/sam
SAM provides both a graphical user interface (GUI) and an
equivalent text-based terminal interface.
To perform OLAR tasks from SAM, enter the
Peripheral Devices > Cards area, which gives a listing of all PCI
cards currently available in the local nPartition. When you
select a slot or path from this list, items in the Actions menu
enable you to perform OLAR-related tasks on the selection.