Platform Drivers And Applications - Sun Microsystems Fire V20z Management Manual

Platform Drivers and Applications

Installation of the platform drivers and applications provides the following
capabilities:
Enables communication between the SP and the platform. This allows for better
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control of the platform. For example, the platform can be shut down or rebooted
properly, rather than forcefully, via power downs and resets.
Allows the platform SNMP traps to be forwarded through the SP's SNMP
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daemon.
Allows the SP to monitor the health of the platform operating system when
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platform difficulties occur, and to attempt to handle machine check errors.
Allows the SP to gather additional Vital Product Data about system components.
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Allows the SP to gather inventory information about operating system software.
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Allows updates to the platform BIOS from the SP.
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If you do not install the Newisys platform software, these features will not be
available from the SP:
Ability to gracefully shutdown and reboot the platform.
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Ability to receive notices of recoverable machine check events and ECC errors.
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Ability to obtain platform hostname.
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Ability to determine the current OS status.
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Ability to determine the current version and inventory of platform software.
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Ability to obtain CPU Vital Product Data and inventory information.
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Ability to determine if the platform is running, via the platform heartbeat.
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Ability to obtain platform-side SNMP information, if attached to the SP's SNMP
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server.
Ability to set the platform jnet address with the sp set jnet command.
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The features or characteristics below are available without installation of the
platform drivers. However, they require that the SP was fully booted during the last
BIOS boot:
BIOS inventory information is available from the SP.
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SP time is synchronized to the platform.
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Optimized thermal management is available via the SP.
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