Manually running the SNMP subagent .............................................................................................

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Subagent log file ...........................................................................................................................

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Using the SNMP sample config files...........................................................................................................

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Enabling SNMP test mode ........................................................................................................................

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Troubleshooting SNMP ............................................................................................................................

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Supported SNMP MIB fields .....................................................................................................................

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Maintenance ..............................................................................................................................

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Maintenance tools ...................................................................................................................................

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Device LED indicators ..............................................................................................................................

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HP IO Accelerator Management Tool.........................................................................................................

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Command-line utilities ..............................................................................................................................

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Enabling PCIe power override ..................................................................................................................

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Enabling the override parameter .....................................................................................................

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Common maintenance tasks .....................................................................................................................

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Unloading the IO Accelerator driver ................................................................................................

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Uninstalling the IO Accelerator driver RPM package ..........................................................................

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Uninstalling the IO Accelerator Utilities, IO Accelerator Management Tool 2.x, and other support packages

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Disabling auto attach .....................................................................................................................

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Unmanaged shutdown issues ..........................................................................................................

39

Disabling the driver .......................................................................................................................

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Utilities ......................................................................................................................................

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Utilities reference.....................................................................................................................................

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fio-attach................................................................................................................................................

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fio-beacon ..............................................................................................................................................

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fio-bugreport...........................................................................................................................................

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fio-detach ...............................................................................................................................................

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fio-format ...............................................................................................................................................

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fio-pci-check ...........................................................................................................................................

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fio-snmp-agentx.......................................................................................................................................

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fio-status.................................................................................................................................................

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fio-sure-erase ..........................................................................................................................................

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fio-update-iodrive ....................................................................................................................................

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Monitoring IO Accelerator health .................................................................................................

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NAND flash and component failure...........................................................................................................

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Health metrics.........................................................................................................................................

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Health monitoring techniques....................................................................................................................

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About flashback protection technology.......................................................................................................

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Software RAID and health monitoring ........................................................................................................

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Performance and tuning...............................................................................................................

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Introduction to performance and tuning ......................................................................................................

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Disabling DVFS.......................................................................................................................................

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Limiting APCI C-states ..............................................................................................................................

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Setting NUMA affinity..............................................................................................................................

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Setting the interrupt handler affinity ...........................................................................................................

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NUMA configuration...................................................................................................................

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Introduction to NUMA architecture ............................................................................................................

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NUMA node override parameter...............................................................................................................

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Advanced configuration example ..............................................................................................................

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