Installing and Using Utilities 5-15

Monitoring (Management) of NEC Express5800/ft series

NEC Express5800/ft series is a fault tolerant system. It can continue the operation even if a major component fails. NEC Express5800/ft series improves the system availability with the hardware, NEC ESMPRO, and system software functions.

If a major component fails, the NEC ESMPRO fault report function can notify the system Administrator of the occurrence of the fault. In addition, the data viewer of NEC ESMPRO Manager can monitor the system status and also identify the failed component.

NEC ESMPRO provides several maintenance functions such as the update of F/W and BIOS in the NEC Express5800/ft series in the online state (in which the system continues the operation but the components used to update F/W or BIOS is suspended) and the suspension of a specific component.

The table below lists the NEC Express5800/ft series management tasks using NEC ESMPRO and system functions.

NEC Express5800/ft series

NEC ESMPRO function or tool

NEC ESMPRO function or tool

(on managed NEC

management task

(on management manager)

Express5800/ft series)*

 

 

Monitoring of major

NEC ESMPRO Manager

component states

 

data viewer

Diagnosis and start/stop of

NEC ESMPRO Agent

NEC ESMPRO Manager

major components and F/W

ft server utility

data viewer

update

 

 

BMC F/W update

NEC ESMPRO Agent

NEC ESMPRO Manager

 

BMC F/W update utility

BMC F/W update utility

Confirmation of alert or

Event Viewer

NEC ESMPRO Manager

confirmation of fault

 

Alert Viewer

occurrence event

 

 

information

 

 

Confirmation of H/W error

NEC ESMPRO Agent

NEC ESMPRO Manager

log

 

 

*When the administration manager is also the managed NEC Express5800/ft series (or NEC ESMPRO Manager is installed on the managed NEC Express5800/ft series), all functions of the administration manager can be used on the managed NEC Express5800/ft series.

The report of a fault occurrence in the NEC Express5800/ft series (alert) is immediately sent to the NEC ESMPRO Manager. When the NEC ESMPRO Manager receives the alert, a popup message appears.

The alert contains the detailed information of the fault and the proper countermeasures. You can take the appropriate action for the alert.