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Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards
Online Replacement (OLR) for a PCI Card
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 393
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 before the card’s services are
suspended.
Step 6. Select the PCI card to be replaced from the card list displayed by SAM or
Partition Manager.
Highlight the card in the list. If you are replacing a multi-function card,
you only need to highlight any one of the hardware paths in the slot.
For a multi-function (multi-port) card, SAM and Partition Manager list
one entry per port, with each port having the same slot number in the
“Slot” column and a unique path in the “Hardware Path” column.
Step 7. Begin the online replacement procedure for the selected card.
To initiate online card replacement in SAM, select the Actions—>Replace
menu item.
To initiate online card replacement in Partition Manager, select the
I/O—>Replace Card menu item.
Both of these menu items initiate the same processes, beginning with an
analysis of any resources provided by the selected card.
Step 8. Review all results from the critical resource analysis of the card.