Emerson 4620 manual System Management Interfaces Overview, Introduction, Standard Compliances

System Management Interfaces Overview

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1.1Introduction

Emerson provides an SAF Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) as part of its AdvancedTCA platforms. HPI provides an industry standard interface to monitor and control highly available telecommunications system platforms. The ability to monitor and control these platforms is provided through a consistent and standard set of programmatic interfaces that are targeted for adoption by the telecom building block industry to significantly reduce product time-to-market and development costs while retaining or enhancing total system/network availability.

HPI provides the interface between the middleware software solution stack and the hardware solution stack, allowing portability of middleware software building blocks across many different hardware platforms and portability of hardware platforms across many different middleware software building blocks.

This guide describes the HPI-B implementation targeted at the Emerson AdvancedTCA Centellis 4620 platform.

1.2Standard Compliances

The Emerson HPI-B implementation for the Centellis 4620 environment is compliant to the following standards.

Table 1-1 HPI-B Standards Supported by Emerson HPI-B Implementation

Standard	Description
SAI-HPI-B.01.02	HPI-B base specification. It abstracts hardware
	platform characteristics into a data model
	consisting of entities and resources.
SAIM-HPI-B.02.01-ATCA	HPI-B-AdvancedTCA mapping specification. It
	provides a vendor independent hardware
	platform view of an AdvancedTCA system.

Although the standards listed above are fulfilled, some specific limitations apply. For details, refer to Limitations on page 27.

1.3Architecture

The Emerson HPI implementation is provided in the form of a client-server architecture. In the Centellis 4620 system environment the server, called HPI daemon, runs on the ATCA-F120 switch blade, and the client, which is constituted by an HPI library and an application which links that library, runs on any node within a shelf. Internally each HPI daemon is connected to a Shelf

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