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CONTENTS
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1.0 What are the IBM PCI Hot Plug Solution and
Fault Tolerant Management Interface?
2.0 Requirements
2.1 Systems Requirements
2.2 Software Requirements
2.3 Hardware Supported for Hot Plug
3.0 IBM PCI Hot Plug Installation
3.1 Installing Intel DMI agent
3.2 Installing IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and
Fault Tolerant Management Interface (FTMI)
3.3 Installing Hot Plug Adapters Software
3.4 Tips to Know before using PCI Hot Plug features
4.0 Changes to the IBM Hot Plug Solutions code
4.1 Changes from version 1.0 to 2.0
4.2 Changes from version 2.0 to 3.0
5.0 Notices
6.0 Trademarks and Service Marks
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1.0 What are the IBM PCI Hot Plug Solution
and Fault Tolerant Management Interface?
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+ The IBM PCI Hot Plug solution for Windows NT 4.0
ensures High Availability on PCI Hot Plug-compatible
IBM servers. With IBM PCI Hot Plug, you can use:
* Hot Add to install and configure a new adapter
while the server is running
* Hot Swap to replace a faulty standalone or redundant
adapter while the system is running
* The IBM PCI Hot Plug Applet to monitor the status of
Hot Plug PCI slots on your server
IBM PCI Hot Plug includes two wizards, IBM PCI Hot Plug and
Play and IBM PCI Hot Swap. These wizards provide clear,
step-by-step guidance while you are adding or swapping an
adapter.
+ The IBM Fault Tolerant Manager Interface (FTMI) for
Windows NT 4.0 allows you to manage the failover operation
on Hot Plug-compatible servers. It provides an integrated
view of network machines that require failover management.
With FTMI, you can:
* Monitor the status of every Fault Tolerant group on
the network.
* Force a failover remotely from an active adapter to
its backup.
* Replace a faulty standalone or redundant adapter while
the system is running using Hot Swap
* Monitor the status of Hot Plug PCI slots on
HotPlug-compatible servers on the network.
IBM Fault Tolerant Manager Interface includes the
IBM PCI Hot Swap wizard. This wizard provides clear, step-by-step
guidance while you are swapping an adapter.
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2.0 Requirements
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2.1 Systems Requirements
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IBM Netfinity 5500, 5500 M10, 5500 M20 and 7000 M10
2.2 Software Requirements
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* Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP4 and SP5
* IBM PCI Hot Plug Package which includes:
+ Intel DMI agent
This agent automatically installs DMI services
on your system.
+ IBM Fault Tolerant Management Interface and
IBM PCI Hot Plug Solution
- IBM PCI Hot Plug Applet
(Not applicable for non-Hot Plug systems)
- IBM PCI Hot Plug and Play Wizard
(Not applicable for non-Hot Plug systems)
- IBM PCI Hot Swap Wizard
(Not applicable for non-Hot Plug systems)
- IBM Fault Tolerant Manager Interface
* Hot Plug Adapters Software
Look for a list of the supported adapters on
www.ibm.com/pc/support/netfinity
You also can download IBM PCI Hot Plug package from
www.ibm.com/pc/support/netfinity.
2.3 Hardware Supported for Hot Plug
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You can obtain a list of the supported adapters and
download the most current versions of the adapter
device drivers and programs from the following IBM
pages on the World Wide Web:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/support
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat/hotplug/
For additional information about future support, contact
your IBM marketing representative.
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3.0 IBM PCI Hot Plug Installation
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You must use the following software to provide IBM PCI
Hot Plug and Fault Tolerant Management support for
hot plug-capable IBM Netfinity systems. You can download this software from www.ibm.com/pc/support/netfinity.
- Intel DMI Agent
- IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and Fault Tolerant Management Interface
- IBM Fault Tolerant Device Drivers
You can install the same components on a non Hot Plug systems
in order to support the following:
- Monitor the status of every Fault Tolerant group on the network.
- Force a failover remotely from an active adapter to its backup.
- Monitor the status of Hot Plug PCI slots on Hot Plug-compatible
servers on the network.
3.1 Installing Intel DMI agent
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This software will install DMI version 2.0 on your system.
You must install the DMI agent before you can install the
IBM PCI Hot Plug Services.
If DMI is already installed on your system, proceed to Step 2.
1. Download the DMI Agent exe file from the Netfinity Support web page
and extract the files onto a diskette.
2. Insert the diskette into the floppy drive.
3. From the Start menu, select Run.
4. Type A:\SETUP in the Open box.
5. Click OK. The Setup wizard opens.
6. Check both "DMI 2.0 Service Provider" and "DMI 2.0 DCE Client" items.
7. Follow the instructions on the setup wizard until the program
is installed.
8. Reboot
3.2 Installing IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and
Fault Tolerant Management Interface (FTMI)
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1. Download the IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and
Fault Tolerant Management Interface exe file from the
Netfinity Support web page and extract the files onto a diskette.
2. Log in to Windows NT as a user in the Administrator group.
3. Insert the diskette into the floppy drive.
4. From the Start menu, Select Run.
5. Type A:\SETUP.EXE in the Open box.
6. Click OK. The Setup wizard opens.
7. Follow the instructions on the setup wizard until the program
is installed.
NOTES:
* If you have an older version of IBM PCI Hot Plug Services
and Fault Tolerant Management interface on your system a
message box will prompt you to upgrade. Click Yes and the Setup
Wizard will guide you through the rest of the installation.
3.3 Installing Hot Plug Adapters Software
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Please read the adapterÆs user manual for specific Hot Plug
and Faut Tolerant support.
To insure that any of the Hot Plug features work properly, you must
install the Hot Plug aware drivers. If you already have an adapter
configured on your system make sure that the drivers are Hot Plug aware.
In the case of an old version of the driver, those must be removed and
replaced with the latest. A reboot will be required.
1. Download the driver .exe file from the web page and extract
the files onto a diskette.
2. Place the diskette into the floppy drive.
3. Proceed with the normal upgrade of the adapter drivers.
See your Windows NT documentation for information about
upgrading drivers.
4. Reboot
3.4 Tips to Know before using PCI Hot Plug features
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1. Hot Plug Aware Drivers
To insure that any of the Hot Plug features work properly,
you must install the Hot Plug aware drivers. If you already
have an adapter configured on your system make sure that the
drivers are Hot Plug aware. In the case of an old version of
the driver, those must be removed and replaced with the latest.
A reboot will be required.
2. Hot Add of an Adapter previously removed
When an administrator attempts to Hot-Add a SCSI or RAID adapter
on a Hot Plug system on which the adapter has already been installed
and removed, the Hot Add will fail.
3. The administrator is strongly advised to mark all SCSI drivers which
have no device as "DISABLED" via the Devices Control Applet. This
will prevent the driver from being started and allow the Hot Add to
proceed normally.
4. MAC address incorrect (all zeros) for Hot Added card
After a Hot Add of an NIC Card, the MAC addresses are being returned
as all zeros (000000000000).This does not affect the abilities of
the adapter.
5. Hot Remove
This feature is NOT supported.
6. Best Time to perform PCI Hot Plug action
It is highly recommended to perform any of the PCI Hot Plug features
during low traffic.
7. Reboot Message
After Hot Adding an adapter, the Windows NT applications
(Network Applet and SCSI Applet) will ask the user to Reboot.
DO NOT REBOOT!
8. Event Log Message " CreateFile failed to \\\\.\\pipe\\hotsrv "
Event ID: 1007
Source: ipssvc
Type: error
Category : none
This behavior is logged in the Event Viewer as a step to trace events.
The Hot Swap wizard may log such error if the system is unable to fulfill
the request at the time. Since the Hot Swap wizard retries 5 times before
giving up. If the Hot Swap worked correctly, you can ignore this message.
9. Fault Tolerant Management Interface Limitations
+ When managing a server remotely, there may be a few minutes where DMI
events on a remotely managed machine could be missed by the FTMI
service on the managing machine.
+ Under heavy stress, FTMI may take up to several minutes to refresh
adapters status.
10. DHCP will only bind to the first NIC adapter in an NT system.
While Hot Adding an adapter in a DHCP server, clients attached to that
Hot Added NIC will not receive an IP address from the DHCP.
11. It is not recommended to add two stand alone NIC adapters connected to
the same network.
12. Hot Adding Two IBM PCI Token Ring 2 Adapters
When Hot Adding two IBM PCI Token Ring II cards into the same PCI bus,
the Hot Plug service may enter two warnings into the event log:
IBM PCI Hot Plug Services: An active unclaimed PCI resource will
be deactivated: Bus 1, DeviceNumber 1, BAR[2] = F7FFF000 value.
IBM PCI Hot Plug Services: An active unclaimed PCI resource will
be deactivated: Bus 1, DeviceNumber 1, BAR[1] = F7FFFF00 value.
These warnings are expected. The cards do not use these resources.
13. ServeRAID on Netfinity 7000 M10
Do Not Hot Add a ServeRAID adapter in slot 11 and 12.
- Windows NT will look for a boot device on that ServeRAID card
and fail to boot from the onboard drive.
- Hot Adding this adapter also while the default is NT VGA mode
will make the system unusable and will require a reboot.
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4.0 Changes to the IBM Hot Plug Solutions code
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4.1 Changes from version 1.0 to 2.0
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The new version 2.0 provides the following new support:
o Support for the IBM Netfinity 7000 M10
o IBM Token Ring 2 (Hot Add)
4.2 Changes from version 2.0 to 3.0
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The new version 3.0 provides the following new support:
o Fault Tolerant Management Interface
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5.0 Notices
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6.0 Trademarks and Service Marks
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The following terms, denoted by an asterisk (*)
in this README, are trademarks or registered
trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United
States or other countries:
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IBM
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NetFinity
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ServeRAID
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The following terms, denoted by a double
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other companies as follows:
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Windows NT Microsoft, Inc.
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