[hobbit] HP PA-RISC Hardware monitoring ?

Deiss, Mark Mark.Deiss at acs-inc.com
Fri Sep 14 16:05:28 CEST 2007


If you elect to use ioscan for checking for claimed hardware (using the -f
option), then recommend you put in a chunk of timeout logic and send an
appropriate error message if a timeout condition occurs. The HPUX ioscan
command is not terribly robust (as we discovered after implementing a BB
module using it).

The ioscan command can hang for the sort of adverse hardware conditions you
are trying to check for. 

This is commonly known as a "feature". - to be spoken aloud as either Eric
Idle or John Cleese.

To T. Yang: I never bothered putting together a tarball for www.deadcat.net;
lack of energy to write up a usage document. It supports table and group
files for defining classes of hardware components to be checked for (number
of HBAs, tape drives, etc). If you want a tarball to play with or use as a
starting point for development, let me know. The module does not have a
timeout control - knocking down a hung ioscan is problematic. Will not post
tarball here as Mr. Storner would probably hunt me down and toss a holy hand
grenade and/or taunt me mercilessly. (What can I say, it's a Monty Python
kind of day).

-----Original Message-----
From: T.J. Yang [mailto:tj_yang at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:04 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] HP PA-RISC Hardware monitoring ?


Hi, Thomas

But ioscan is jus a scan of existing hardwares, it doesn't tell if each
component
is ok or not. following is an example of a C3600.

root at 8519> uname -a
HP-UX ilad8519 B.11.11 U 9000/785 2013140223 unlimited-user license
root at 8519> model
9000/785/C3600
root at 8519> ioscan -k
H/W Path       Class                     Description
====================================================
               bc
10             ioa                       System Bus Adapter (582)
10/0               ba                    Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
10/0/12/0                lan             HP PCI 10/100Base-TX Core
10/0/13/0                audio           Built-in Audio
10/0/14/0                ext_bus         IDE Primary Channel
10/0/14/0.0                 target
10/0/14/0.0.0                  disk      TEAC    CD-532E-B
10/0/14/0.7                 target
10/0/14/0.7.0                  ctl       Initiator
10/0/14/1                ba              PCI Core I/O Adapter
10/0/14/1/1                 tty          Built-in RS-232C
10/0/14/1/2                 tty          Built-in RS-232C
10/0/14/1/3                 ext_bus      Built-in Parallel Interface
10/0/14/1/4                 siopc        Built-in Floppy Drive
10/0/14/1/4.1                  floppy    HP_PC_FDC_FLOPPY
10/0/14/2                usb             Built-in USB Interface
10/0/14/2.1                 usbhub       USB Root Hub
10/0/15/0                ext_bus         SCSI C896 Ultra Narrow Single-Ended
10/0/15/0.7                 target
10/0/15/0.7.0                  ctl       Initiator
10/0/15/1                ext_bus         SCSI C896 Ultra2 Wide LVD
10/0/15/1.5                 target
10/0/15/1.5.0                  disk      QUANTUM ATLAS10K-9LVD
10/0/15/1.6                 target
10/0/15/1.6.0                  disk      QUANTUM ATLAS10K-9LVD
10/0/15/1.7                 target
10/0/15/1.7.0                  ctl       Initiator
10/1               ba                    Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
10/1/4/0                 lan             PCI Ethernet (11484320)
10/4               ba                    Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
10/6               ba                    Local PCI Bus Adapter (782)
10/6/2/0                 graphics        PCI Display (103c108b)
32             processor                 Processor
49             memory                    Memory
root at 8519>

T.J. Yang

> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:26:49 +0200
> From: thomas.seglard at mxp4.com
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] HP PA-RISC Hardware monitoring ?
>
> Hi !
>
> the magical command on HP-UX (PA-RISC) is 'ioscan' on HP-UX (IA64) it's
> 'machinfo'. For example, if you want information on processors or fc
> hba, you could make :
>
> # ioscan -fknC processor | grep -i processor
> # ioscan -fknC fc | grep -i fc
>
> or simply :
>
> # ioscan -fknC
>
> to see all possibilities. Hobbit runs just fine on this kind of
> hardware, I've tested it for months on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11i. You just
> need 'gcc' and GNU 'make' to build clients and that's all.
> Sincerly,
>
> ThomaS
>
> T.J. Yang a écrit :
>> Anyone know is there a module (bb or hb) to monitor HP hardware ?
>> May be better question is what is the similar command for ipmitool or
prtdiage in HP-UX ?
>>
>> T.J. Yang
>>
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