Technical data

Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards
Online Addition (OLA) for a PCI Card
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 387
In SAM, select (highlight) the slot, then select the Actions —> Light
I/O Slot LED
menu item. SAM flashes the selected PCI card slot’s
LED.
In Partition Manager, select (highlight) the slot, then select the I/O
—> Light Chassis and Slot LEDs
menu item. Partition Manager flashes
the selected PCI card slot’s LED, and on HP Superdome servers also
flashes the corresponding I/O chassis LED and cabinet number LCD.
From the HP-UX command line, you can issue the
rad -f attention slot command to flash the PCI card slot’s
attention indicator (LED).
B. Locate the server, and view the PCI card slot attention indicators.
The LED for the specified card slot should be flashing.
C. After locating the server and card slot, turn off the card slot LED.
In SAM or Partition Manager, click the OK button to return the
attention indicators to their normal state.
From the HP-UX command line you can issue the rad -f off slot
command to turn off the PCI card slot’s attention indicator.
This step is optional, but performing it is recommended to confirm that
the actual location is known and accessible.
Step 7. Begin the online PCI card addition procedure.
• To initiate online card addition in SAM, select the Actions—>Add
menu item.
Then select (highlight) the slot where the card will be installed, and
click the OK button.
• To initiate online card addition in Partition Manager, select
(highlight) the slot where the card will be installed, and then select
the I/O—>Add Card menu item.
Step 8. Review the results of the critical resource analysis for the slot.
The first lines of the analysis indicate whether the card addition can or
cannot proceed. For example:
Critical Resource Analysis for slot 0-1-3-8:
No affected resources found.