Displaying State Of An External I/O Expansion Unit And Administration - Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 User Manual

Caution – IMPORTANT - An XSCF reset or failover might prevet the above setting
operation from completing. If a reset or failover occurs during the operation, log in
to the active XSCF to determin if the operation succeeded. If not, try it again. For
details on DR, see the Dynamic Reconfiguration User's Guide.
4.9 Displaying State of an External I/O
Expansion Unit and Administration
This section describes the management overview of an External I/O expansion unit
connected to the server, components in the External I/O Expansion Unit such as I/O
boards, link cards, and power supply units (PSUs), and downlink cards mounted in
PCI slots in the server.
Note – For the hardware configuration of an External I/O Expansion Unit, see the
External I/O Expansion Unit Installation and Service Manual or the Service Manual for
your server. For details and examples of use of commands, see the XSCF Reference
Manual and the ioxadm(8) man page.
TABLE 4-4
TABLE 4-4
Term
Host path
Downlink card
path
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lists terms used in External I/O Expansion Unit administration.
External I/O Expansion Unit
Description
Device path. A device name and device number are used to represent the
layer location of a component in the component layer structure.
(Example: IOU#1-PCIE#4)
A downlink card that is mounted in a PCI slot in an I/O unit of the
server and connected to an External I/O Expansion Unit. An External
I/O Expansion Unit is connected to one or two downlink cards. A
downlink card path represents the layer location indicating which
downlink card is connected to the External I/O Expansion Unit in the
layer structure. (Example: IOU#1-PCIE#2)
lists setting items and the corresponding shell commands.
Administration Terms