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Shelf Management Overview

Theshelfcontainsanon‐volatilestoragedevicethatstoresshelfFRUinformation,including

detailsoftheshelfitselfandtheshelfconfiguration.TheMultiRecordareaoftheshelfFRU

informationcontainsdatasuchasshelfaddressing,powermanagement,andE‐Keyrecords.A

proxyFRUmakesthisinformationavailable

totheShelfManager.Redundantcopiesofthe

shelfFRUinformationarestoredontheshelfmanagementserver(ShMS)filesystem.

Hardware platform interface (HPI)

AlthoughIPMIoverLANcanbeusedtocommunicatebetweentheShelfManagerandsystem

manager,HPIprovidesahigherlevelinterfacethatcanbeusedgenericallyasamanagement

interfaceforhighlyavailablesystems.ImplementingtheHPIinterface intheShelfManager

allowsmuchoftheautonomousshelfmanagementfunctionalitytobeterminatedatthe

ShelfManagerandaclean,portableinterfacetobepresentedtothesystemmanagerusing

HPI.Furthermore,thisHPIinterfaceallowssystemmanagementsoftwaretobeeasily

portabletoanyHPI‐compliantplatform,includingnon‐AdvancedTCAplatformssuchas

CompactPCI.

ForadescriptionoftheHPIarchitecture,seeHPIarchitectureonpage 20.Forinformationon

usingHPI,seeChapter4,ChangingShelfSettingsUsingHPI,onpage 53.

System manager

Asystemmanagerisahigh‐levelmanagementapplicationthatmaymanageentitiesranging

fromasingleshelftomultiplesystems.Thesystemmanagerusesthecapabilitiesand

interfacesprovidedbyshelfmanagementtomanagetheATCAshelf.Althoughasystem

managerisnotdeliveredwithRadisysATCAproducts,theinterfacebetweentheShelf

Managerandasystemmanagerisdescribedinthismanual.

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