Enhancements to the discover Command

Supporting the HP server blade platform in HP XC hardware configurations introduces the concept of enclosure-based systems. Server blades are housed in cabinets called enclosures. Enclosures have a device known as the Onboard Administrator (OA), which manages the enclosure and gathers all data necessary for the discover command to populate the HP XC configuration and management database.

The discover command has been enhanced to discover the switch topology as well as the OAs to discover all server blades in the hardware configuration.

In addition, to extend the enclosure concept to a hardware configuration that does not contain server blades, the discover command has been enhanced to recognize the concept of a real and virtual enclosure. A real enclosure is defined as an enclosure with one of more Onboard Administrators. A virtual enclosure is defined as a ProCurve switch that has at least one console port from a non-server blade node plugged into it.

In this release, the maximum number of server blade nodes in a real enclosure is 16. The maximum number of non-server blade nodes in a virtual enclosure is 38.