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Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards
OLAR Tools and Interfaces
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 370
Partition Manager /opt/parmgr/bin/parmgr
Partition Manager’s interface is exclusively a GUI. In addition
to supporting nPartition administration tasks, Partition
Manager has complete support for PCI card OLAR.
To perform OLAR tasks from Partition Manager, select and
“open” an I/O chassis in the primary window, which gives a
listing of all PCI cards in the selected I/O chassis. When you
select a slot or path from this list, items in the I/O menu enable
you to perform OLAR-related tasks on the selection.
Note that when using Partition Manager you can add or replace
cards in the local nPartition’s active I/O chassis only.
/usr/bin/rad The rad command is a command-line interface for performing
some OLAR tasks and getting system PCI card and driver
status information for the local nPartition.
HP recommends you perform online card add or replace tasks
using SAM or Partition Manager—not rad.
However, the rad command can be useful for listing status,
getting additional slot or card details, and for independently
managing card slot attention indicators (LEDs).
The rad command reports the default speed/frequency for PCI
slots when they are not occupied. When a slot is occupied with a
card the rad command reports the operating speed/frequency
for the card and slot.
See Example Uses of Common rad Commands on page 372 for
other details.
Table 8-1 Tools and Interfaces for PCI Card Online Addition
and Replacement (OLAR) (Continued)
OLAR Tool/Interface Description