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Power & Cooling View

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Assistance
»Overview
»Features & Capabilities
»About Partitioning
»Starting & Stopping
»Complex Scope
»Hardware View
»nPartitions View
Power & Cooling View
»Cells View
»I/O View
»General View
»Partition Scope
»Cell Scope
»I/O Chassis Scope
»Actions
»Status Indicators
»Messages
»Release Notes
»About Partition Manager
»Glossary
»Using Help
» About This View
» Device Groups
» Device Group Summary Table
» Individual Device Status
» Actions

About This View

This view shows the status of all the power supplies, cabinet blowers, and I/O fans in the complex. Use this view to monitor the physical environment of the complex, check the high availability status, and find failed components.

The power and cooling domains are shown for each cabinet in the complex, grouped as appropriate to the cabinet type.

Device Groups

The following device groups are shown in this view.

Cabinet Blowers / Cabinet Fans

Cabinet blowers provide the main air flow through HP Superdome-class Compute cabinets. On rp-class and rx-class partitionable systems, the term used is “cabinet fans”.

Backplane Power

Power for the cell interconnect backplane. Not all server models contain backplane power.

I/O Fans

I/O fans provide cooling for I/O chassis.

Cabinet Power

Bulk power supplies provide the primary power source for cells and other components in the cabinet.

If the cabinet includes additional power and cooling devices, they will be displayed after these device groups.

Device Group Summary Table

The overall status of each device group is shown in a summary table with the following fields.

Table 1 Power & Cooling Device Fields

 HA Status

The high availability status of the component. One of the following:

Not Applicable

High availability checks do not apply to this type of device in this type of cabinet.

N+

This device group can experience a device failure and still function normally.

N

This device group has just enough good devices to function normally. Failure of a device may (or may not) cause the cabinet to shut down.

N-

This device group does not have enough good components to function normally. If a cabinet is running and goes into an N- cooling state, then the cabinet will be automatically shut down. If a cabinet has an N- power state, then devices cannot be powered on. This means that if the cabinet is running, it will continue running, but no additional devices can be powered on. If the cabinet is off and comes up in the N- power state, then none of its devices will be powered on.

[active/ok status icon]OK

The number of devices in this group that are functioning normally.

[failed status icon]Failed

The number of devices in this group that have failed.

 Maximum

The maximum number of devices in this group that can be installed in this cabinet.

 

Individual Device Status

Following the device group summary table, each individual device in the group is displayed with its device number and status icon:

[active/ok status icon]Powered on and active; no fault detected.
[failed status icon]Failed self-test; not available for use.

If you position the mouse cursor over a device icon, a pop-up tool tip will display the complete name of the device and its status.

Actions

At the right side of each view is a menu of actions that Partition Manager can perform. These actions are grouped into six submenus. To expand a submenu, click on the [+] icon to the left of the submenu name. The actions under that submenu will be shown, and the icon will change to [-]. Click on that icon to collapse the submenu. The actions under the submenu will be hidden, and the icon will change back to [+].

When Partition Manager begins, each submenu is collapsed. When you change views, submenus that you have expanded will remain expanded, and submenus that are collapsed will remain collapsed.

Not all actions appear in the menu in each view. Some actions that do appear in the menu are disabled under certain conditions. Actions that are disabled are dimmed in the menu and cannot be clicked. Actions are enabled or disabled based on the current state of the system and which objects are currently selected.

If you position the mouse cursor over the name of an action without clicking, a pop-up tool tip will appear. If the action is currently enabled, the text will explain what the action does. If the action is currently disabled, the text will explain why it is disabled.

The following table shows the actions that are enabled in this view. Actions that cannot be enabled in this view are not included. To the right of each submenu and action is a brief description, including any requirements for the action to be enabled. If the required conditions are not met, then the action will be dimmed in the menu, and it cannot be selected. Click on an action name to go to the detailed help for that action.

Table 2 Actions Menu

[-]Complex

Actions associated with the overall complex. These actions are enabled in all views.

 
» Set Complex Name
Change the name of the complex.
 
» Analyze Complex Health 

Execute a suite of problem detectors to analyze the overall health of the complex.

 
» Clear All LEDs

Turn off all attention indicators.

 
» Show Complex Details

Display a text report showing the detailed composition and status of the entire complex.

[-]nPartition

Actions associated with one or more existing nPartitions. Create nPartition is enabled in all views. Other nPartition actions are enabled when an nPartition is selected, or implicitly selected in the current scope. In a cell scope or I/O chassis scope the nPartition containing the cell or I/O chassis is considered implicitly selected.

 
» Create nPartition

Start the create nPartition wizard to create a new nPartition. Required: there must be free cells in the complex. There must not be any non-free cells selected. Optional: if any free cells are selected, those cells will be pre-selected in the Select Cells step of the wizard.

[-]Tools

Utility actions provided by Partition Manager. These actions are always enabled.

 
» Refresh Data

Perform a new complex scan and update the display.

 
» Show Log File

Display the system administration log file on the system running Partition Manager.

 
» Switch Complexes

Return to the user authentication screen, in order to connect to another complex.

[-]Help

These actions display online help in a separate browser window. If a help browser window is already open, that window will be re-used for the selected help page. These actions select the initial help page that will be displayed. From there, you can browse to any other help page. These actions are always enabled.

 
» Current View

Display help that is specific to the current context. The help page that is displayed will be associated with the current view.

 
» Overview

Display the overview help topic. This topic provides an introduction to Partition Manager and the concepts and terminology used in the application and in the online help.

 
» About

Display the about partition manager help topic. This page displays the product version and release history, copyright and trademark information, and other legal notices.