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    System Management Interface Based on HPI-B (Centellis 4620) User’ s Guide 6806800D85A July 2008[...]

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    © 2008 Emerson All rights reser ved. T rademarks Emerson, Business-Critical Continuity , Emerson Network P ower and the Emerson Network P ower logo are trademarks and ser vice marks of Emerson Electr ic Co . © 2008 Emerson Electric Co . All other product or ser vice names are th e proper ty of their respective owners . Intel ® is a trademark or [...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 3 About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1 System Manage ment Interfaces O verview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) Contents 4 4.3.5.1 Adding Shelve s and Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.3.5.2 Removing She lves and Doma ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4.4 Emerson Exte nsions . . [...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 5 T abl e 1-1 HPI-B Standar ds Suppor ted by Emerson HPI-B Implemen tation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 T able 2-1 RPM Files for HPI-B Clients and Daemons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 T abl e 2-2 Ov er view of HPI-[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) List of Tables 6[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 7 Figure 1-1 Overview of HPI Usage in Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Figure 4-1 Multishelf L ibrary - Represen tation of Shelves as Domain s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Figure 4-2 HPI M[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) List of Figures 8[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 9 About this Manual Overview of Contents This manual is divided into the f ollo wing chapters and appendices . z Chapter 1, Syste m Manageme nt Interfaces Overview , on page 13 Provides a n ov er view on HPI- B in Emerson Adv ancedTCA systems z Chapter 2, Soft[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) About this Manual 10 Con ventions The f ollo wing tab le describes the conv entions used throughout this man ual. LAN Local Area Network MVL Montavista Linux OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer PICMG PCI Industrial Comput er Ma nuf acturers Group RMCP Remote M[...]

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    About this Manual System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 11 Summary of Chang es This manual has been revised and replaces all pr ior editions. Comments and Suggestions W e welcome an d appreciate y our comment s on our documen tation. W e want to know what you think about ou r manuals and ho w we c[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) About this Manual 12[...]

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    1 System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 13 System Management Interf aces Ov er view 1.1 Intr oduction Emerson pr ovides an SAF Hardware Platform Int erf ace (HPI) as par t of its Ad v ancedTCA platf or ms. HPI pro vides an industry standard interf ace to monitor and control highly a vailab le tele[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) System Management Interfaces Overview HPI Library 14 Management Ala r m module (SAM) in the shelf . The communication bet ween HPI daemon and SAM is realized via RMCP (Remote Mana gement Control Protocol ) which is an IP- encapsulation of IPMI commands . The [...]

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    HPI Daemon System Management Interfaces Overview System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 15 The single shelf libr ar y supports the communication with one HPI daemon only . Since it is only used inter nally and is not intended to be used by user applications , it will not be described any fur ther i[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) System Management Interfac es Overview High Availability 16[...]

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    2 System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 17 Softw are Installation and Configur ation 2.1 Overview This section describes how to set-u p HPI-B daemons and clie nts and how to install all files needed to run client applications . Generally , all files are deliv ered in the f or m of RPMs. The conten[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Software Inst allation and Co nfiguration Installing an HPI-B Daemon 18 2.2.1 Installing an HPI-B Daemon As pre viously mentioned, it dep ends on the A TCA-F120 release if t he HPI-B daemon files are preinstalled or not . If the y are not preinstalled or if y[...]

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    Setting Up HPI Cli ents Software Installation and Configurat ion System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 19 The corresponding section in the conf iguration file is called ipmidirect . Within ipmidirect , you need to adapt the entr ies addr and port , where addr is the IP ad dress and port is the por[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Software Installati on and Configura tion Configuring HPI Clients 20 2.3.2 Configuring HPI Clients Bef ore running y our client, y ou need to conf igure the multish elf library on the node where the client is to run. The configuration ha s to be done in the f[...]

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    3 System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 21 De v eloping Applications 3.1 Overview This chapter describes how to de velop applications that make use of the HPI-B library . Depending on the CPU archite cture of the target system wh ere you want to run y our HPI-B application and on th e operat ing s[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Developing Appli cations Building the Ap plication 22[...]

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    4 System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 23 Using HPI-B 4.1 Overview This chapter provides inf ormation which is nece ssar y when wr iting applications tha t are based on the Emerson HPI-B distribution. It lists limitat ions with respect to the HPI-B specification and describes e xtensions which we[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B Limitations with Respect to HPI-B AdvancedTCA Ma pping Specification 24 4.2.2 Limitations with Respect to HPI-B Adv ancedTCA Mapping Specification The f ollowing limitations apply with respect to the compatibility with the HPI-B-AdvancedTCA mappin[...]

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    Accessing HPI Domains Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 25 The f ollowing figure illustr ates an e xample configuration with f our domains and three shelv es. Any FR Us av ailab le in a shelf a re represented as HPI resources together with Resource Da ta Records (RDRs) correspondin[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B How Domains and Shelves are Repres ented 26 4.3.3 How Domains and Sh elves are Represented As pre viously mentioned, each HPI implementati on has at least the def ault domain. It has the ID 0 assigned to it. Star ting with HPI-B , the def ault dom[...]

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    How Domains and Shelves ar e Repre sented Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 27 The Domain M anagement Re source contains on e HPI control and allo ws applications to add/remo v e HPI domains/she lv es to the HPI en vironment. The She lf Management Re source contains one HPI control[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B How Domains and Shelves are Repres ented 28 In the f ollowing, the Domain Management Reso urce and the Shelf M anagement resource will be described in detail. A descr i ption of typical usage e x amples/ scenarios will be given after that. 4.3.3.1[...]

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    How Domains and Shelves ar e Repre sented Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 29 4.3.3.2 Shelf Management Resource The shelf managemen t resource represents one daemon. F or each configured daemon, the def ault domain creates one shelf manage ment resource. The shelf management re so[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B How Domains and Shelves are Repres ented 30 The shelf management resource contains the f ollowing two RDRs: z Domain management cont rol Read-only HPI control which allo ws the applicatio n to obtain the IP addre ss, port, domain name and other co[...]

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    Discovering Shelves and Domains Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 31 4.3.3.3 HPI Domain Events Depending on the connection status , the Domain Connection sensor can thro w e v ents . The f ollowing tab le provides details. 4.3.4 Disco vering Shelves and Domains As pre viously menti[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B Adding and Rem o ving Shelves and Domains 32 Alternatively , you can use th e Shelf Managemen t Resources def ined in the def ault domain. An y shelves that were added to the HPI environment are repr esented by one Shelf Manageme nt Resource with [...]

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    Emerson Extensions Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 33 After calling saHpiControlStateSet(), a new res ource with the domain name you supplied as parameter is created. Ad ditionally , a hot s wap e v ent of type A CTIVE for t he created r esource is sent. The ne wly created shelf [...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B HPI Controls for Domain and Shelf Management 34 4.4.1 HPI Contr ols for Do main and Shel f Management This ref ers to the Domain Management Resource and She lf Management Re source which were pre viously explain ed. Both ar e Emerson- specific e x[...]

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    IPMI System Boot Options Support Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 35 Example: on most Em erson b lades , the BIOS sof tware is stored twice on a flash de vice, BIOS bank 1 and BIO S bank 2. The b ank to boot fro m can be selecte d with the Syst em Boot Opti ons Control. Y ou ha v [...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B POST Type Control 36 4.4.3 POST T ype Control This HPI contro l allows y ou to set/get the P ower-On Self T est (POST) type of the blade. T wo POST types are configur ab le: long POST and short POST . Refer to the respectiv e hardw are user manua [...]

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    HPI Logging Support Using HPI-B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 37 Refer to the heade r file MotorolaHpi.h f or used define s. T able 4-15 Lo g RDR SaHpiRdrT V alue RecordId Assigned by HPI RdrT ype SAHPI_CTRL_RDR Entity The same entity as logical shelf resource RdrT ypeUnion Defined in ne x[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Using HPI-B HPI Lo gging Support 38 T able 4-1 7 Log Control St ate SaHpiCtrlStateT V alue T ype SAHPI_CTRL_TYPE_OEM StateUnion.Oem.MId MO THPI_ MANUF A CTURER_ID_MO T OR OLA StateUnion.Oem.BodyLeng th 40 + length of log file name StateUnion.Oem.Body MOTHPI_L[...]

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    A System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 39 A Example Applications A.1 Overview The HPI-B client base pac kage contains precompiled e xample applications. They are in vok ed via the command line and can be conf igured via command line par ameters . Each e xample application illustrates a cer tain f[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Example Applications List of Supported Exampl e Applications 40 # # Lists the usage of all supported H PI-B example programs. # # Copyright (c) 2007 by Motorola Gmb H # Copyright (c) 2008, Emerson Networ k Power - Embedded Computing GmbH # #------------------[...]

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    List of Supported Example Applications Example Applicatio ns System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 41 Set the system boot optio n 1 (service partition) to value 2 fo r resource 4 on domain 0: hpibootoptions -d 0 -r 4 1 2 Turn on console redirectio n and perform a cold -reset for resource 34 on dom[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Example Applications List of Supported Exampl e Applications 42 -A display everything -t display RDR with the event log -p display RPT with the event log -x display debug messag es -V print version inform ation and exit -h display this help an d exit #-------[...]

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    List of Supported Example Applications Example Applicatio ns System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 43 -r RESOURCE_ID use resource with id RESOURCE_ID -a {0|1} disable/enable Sh M activation -w DELAY set delay before next power on to DELAY * 1/10 sec -V print version inf ormation and exit -h displa[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Example Applications List of Supported Exampl e Applications 44 #------------------------------# # hpiha #------------------------------# Usage: hpiha [OPTION]... HPI example application to show the HA state and to initiate a switch -over. Options: -d <dom[...]

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    List of Supported Example Applications Example Applicatio ns System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 45 -s STRING wr ite string STRING to User Info Ar ea -f FILE write conte nt of file FILE to Use r Info Area -w FILE wr ite User Info Area to file FILE -V pr int version information and exit -h di spl[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Example Applications List of Supported Exampl e Applications 46 #------------------------------# # hpilink #------------------------------# Usage: hpilink [OPTION]... HPI example application to display E-Keying link states and optiona lly listen for link stat[...]

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    List of Supported Example Applications Example Applicatio ns System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 47 ng|ipmipower|ipmiptpekeying|ipmisub| softwareupgrade|redundancy|script |shfruv alidation|sdrrepository|rmcp|deasser t|solmgmt|marshal|all #------------------------------# # hpiposttype #----------[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Example Applications List of Supported Exampl e Applications 48 on. Options: -d DOMAIN_ID use domain with id D OMAIN_ID -V print version inform ation and exit -h display this help an d exit #------------------------------# # hpirestartdaemon #----------------[...]

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    List of Supported Example Applications Example Applicatio ns System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 49 Usage: hpiship [OPTION]... HPI example application to display a nd set the Shelf Manager IP addre ss. Options: -d DOMAIN_ID use domain with id D OMAIN_ID -n CTRL_NUM use control with num ber CTRL_[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Example Applications List of Supported Exampl e Applications 50 -s display sensors -c display controls -w display watchdogs -i display inventorie s -a display annunciato rs -x display debug mess ages -V print version info rmation and exit -h display this help[...]

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    B System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A) 51 B Related Documentation B.1 Emer son Network P o wer - Embedded Computing Documents The Emerson Netw ork P ower - Embedde d Computing pub lications listed b elow are r ef erenced in this manu al. Y ou can o btain electronic cop ies of Emerson Netw ork P o[...]

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    System Management Interface Based on HPI- B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A ) Related Documentation R elated Specifications 52[...]