Windows Setup and Operation
3.Stop the operation of a PCI module using the ft server utility.
Select [Start] - [All Programs] - [NEC ESMPRO Agent] - [ft server utility] to start the ft server utility.
Then, from the ft server utility, select [PCI Module] then the primary PCI module from the [FTSever] tree on the left pane, and click [Down] of [Bring Up/Bring Down]. When you stop the operation of the primary PCI module, a failover occurs and the secondary PCI module becomes the primary module.
The following events or changes occur when stopping the primary PCI module and the module fails over:
The screen temporarily blacks out and then displayed again. The following message will appear from the taskbar:
Windows - FT Orphaning: A disk that is part of a
* The message denotes that the mirror volumes of the hard disk stored in the disconnected PCI module are released.
* The message will not appear if disks are duplicated by the RDR function. Indications of PCI modules’ status LEDs change as follows:
[Indications of status LEDs]
| LED | Secondary* | Primary* |
1 | BMC status LED | - | Green and blinking |
2 | PCI module status LED1 | Red | - |
3 | PCI module status LED2 | - | Amber |
4 | DISK ACCESS LED | - | Amber |
DISK LED | - | Amber | |
* The primary and secondary modules after failover
4. Restart the PCI module.
From the ft server utility, click [Up] of [Bring Up/Bring Down] to the PCI module which was stopped in the step 3, and the PCI module will be started. Once the PCI module is started, PCI module diagnosis, mirror volume duplication and PCI module duplication are performed.