Technical data

Online Add and Replacement (OLAR) of PCI Cards
Online Replacement (OLR) for a PCI Card
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1 394
The first lines of the analysis indicate whether the card replacement can
or cannot proceed. For example:
Critical Resource Analysis for slot 0-1-3-8:
No affected resources are in use.
If the card resource analysis determines that the card cannot be taken
offline, this result is indicated with a “critical” message such as the
following output.
CRITICAL: Affected resources are essential for system
operation.
The operation cannot proceed.
For a multi-function card, SAM and Partition Manager list the analysis
results for all ports on the card.
CAUTION Review all parts of the critical resource analysis report to determine
whether to continue or cancel an online card replacement procedure.
Even when the analysis indicates that “no affected resources are in use”,
continuing the card replacement procedure will take the card offline and
will halt any services the card provides.
For example, replacing a networking card causes any network
connections the card provides to be suspended or terminated.
Step 9. Click either the Cancel or OK button.
To cancel the card replacement procedure click the Cancel button. This
cancels the procedure and returns to the list of PCI cards. After you click
Cancel you must not perform the remaining steps in this procedure.
To continue the card replacement procedure click the OK button. This
proceeds to suspend the card’s driver(s), power off the card’s slot, and
flash the card’s attention indicator (LED).
Step 10. Review the information presented in the Replace Cards screen.
This screen lists the actions that SAM or Partition Manager has already
performed to take the selected card offline.