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» Hardware Status Legend
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Hardware Status Legend

In several views, the status of each displayed hardware component is represented by an icon attached to the component. The meaning of each icon is identified by the hardware status legend at the bottom right of the view (for example, see overview, Figure 1.).

Some of these status icons are also used in tables displayed by several Partition Manager actions (for example, show complex details).

The hardware status icons do not reflect iCAP status. Refer to the iCAP and Partition Manager section below for more information.

Table 1 Status Icons

[active/ok status icon]Active/OKPowered on and active; no fault detected.
[inactive status icon]InactivePowered on, but inactive.
[deconfigured status icon]DeconfiguredInstalled but deconfigured; not available for use.
[minor problem status icon]Minor ProblemCell contains deconfigured or failed CPUs or DIMMs.
[failed status icon]FailedFailed power-on self-test; not available for use.
[powering on status icon]Powering OnCell is executing power-on self-test.
[powered off status icon]Powered-OffPowered off; no further information is available.
[unknown status icon]UnknownNo information is available about this component.

 

Unknown Status

The Unknown status indicator ( [unknown status icon] ) is displayed when Partition Manager cannot read information about cells, I/O chassis, or nPartitions from the local service processor, or cannot obtain this information from the remote WBEM services provider.

This does not necessarily indicate an error condition. For example, some cell information (such as memory configuration) cannot be obtained if the cell is powered off or has not completed its power-on self-test.

Unknown status may also be caused by an error condition or a lock contention problem. In some circumstances, the status indicator will be followed by the reason for the unknown status, as shown below.

[unknown status icon] Read Error

A read error may be a transient condition. Repeating the action may succeed in retrieving the information.

[unknown status icon] Locked

Read and write locks are used to synchronize access to complex and nPartition information. Usually, lock contention is a transient condition that is automatically resolved. When a lock is held for an abnormally long time (for example, when the process that holds the lock terminates abnormally), you can forcibly release it. Stale locks are automatically broken after they have been held for 25 minutes. Refer to the Lock Contention message for more information.

Unknown status may also be shown when retrieving information from a remote nPartition, if the WBEM user name and password are not known on the remote nPartition. Refer to user authentication for more information.

iCAP and Partition Manager

If the complex contains Instant Capacity (iCAP) components (CPUs, cells, or memory) some hardware components may be displayed by Partition Manager as Active/OK even though they cannot be used. For example, Partition Manager displays the hardware state of CPUs rather than the operating system's state for those CPUs. As a result, CPUs shown to be active by Partition Manager may actually be inactive in the operating system.

To see how many CPUs are active in an operating system, use either the top(1) command or icod_stat(1M).

Similarly, cells that are assigned to nPartitions but have their Use On Next Boot flag set to “No” may be iCAP cells (possibly containing iCAP memory). Unassigned cells may also be iCAP cells.

Actions related to assigning or activating cells via Partition Manager may fail if the result of such assignment or activation would require the activation of unlicensed iCAP components. Use icod_stat(1M) to get the current iCAP status of the complex, including the quantities of unlicensed CPUs, cells, and memory and the distribution of the iCAP CPUs among nPartitions and unassigned cells.

The nPartition Configuration Privilege does not control provisioning of iCAP processors.

See Also

  • icod(5)

  • HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for versions B.07.x, installed in /usr/share/doc/icodUserGuide.pdf