The Support Management Station (SMS) is a workstation
or PC that is connected to an HP Superdome server through the service
processor private LAN. The SMS may either be an HP-UX workstation
or an HP ProLiant system running Microsoft® Windows® 2000
with Service Pack 3 or later.
The SMS primarily is used by HP-certified service
and support personnel for system scan, upgrade, and hardware verification
purposes.
The Windows SMS is an HP ProLiant system running
the Windows operating system that has an enhanced system support toolset,
including Partition Manager and the HP nPartition commands (such as parcreate and parstatus, among others).
Use of the nPartition commands from a Windows SMS
requires specifying the remote management command-line options (either
the -u... -h... set of options or the -g... -h... options). For details see “Specifying Remote Management Options to Commands”.
You can use the Windows versions of the nPartition
commands to remotely manage servers based on the HP sx1000 chipset
or HP sx2000 chipset. Remote management using IPMI over LAN is supported
for all servers based on the HP sx1000 chipset or HP sx2000 chipset.
Remote nPartition management using WBEM is supported for nPartitions
running an operating system with the HP nPartition Provider.
Details on the Windows SMS release of nPartition
commands are given in “Commands for Configuring nPartitions”.
For more details about the SMS for Superdome servers,
refer to the Service Guide for your model of
Superdome server.
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