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Administration Guide


Chapter 19. Using SP Perspectives

SP Perspectives is a set of applications, each with a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables you to perform SP system monitoring and management tasks by letting you directly manipulate icons that represent system objects. This chapter is an overview for using SP Perspectives, covering the following topics:

Specific instruction for performing tasks using the various SP Perspectives interfaces is available through an extensive online help system. It is not repeated in this book. To look at the online help, see Accessing help.

In general, after starting SP Perspectives, you simply select an SP system object (an SP system managed resource such as a frame, node, or switch) by clicking on it with the mouse, then select an action to perform on that object from the menu or tool bar. Use this pattern, of selecting an object then selecting an action, to accomplish numerous system management tasks with SP Perspectives. Many actions are common to each Perspective, such as: view and modify properties, open TTY, and run command. Table 13 lists the high-level tasks, some common and some unique, that can be performed by each Perspective. The online help, which explains how to perform each of the tasks, can be started from the SP Perspectives launch pad.


Table 13. Perspectives high-level tasks

This Perspective: Enables you to perform these high-level tasks:
Hardware Perspective
  • Select a hardware object
  • Set the current system partition
  • View hardware attributes
  • Monitor hardware objects
  • Control system partitions
  • Control nodes
  • Control node groups
  • Control frames and switches
  • Control SP Expansion I/O Units

Event Perspective
  • Create an event definition or condition
  • View or modify an event definition or condition
  • Register or unregister event definitions or conditions
  • Set notification of events or conditions
  • Delete event definitions or conditions

VSD Perspective
  • Create or Define IBM VSDs
  • Designate a node as an IBM VSD node
  • Create or Define IBM HSDs
  • Control IBM RVSD Subsystem
  • Configure IBM VSDs and IBM HSDs
  • Change IBM VSDs State
  • Unconfigure IBM VSDs and IBM HSDs
  • Undefine IBM VSDs
  • Remove IBM VSDs
  • Undefine IBM HSDs
  • Remove IBM HSDs
  • Remove IBM VSD Node Designation
  • Display IBM VSD Diagnostics
  • Change Owner and Group of IBM VSDs

System Partitioning Aid Perspective
  • Define a new system partition
  • Add nodes to a system partition
  • Verify the system partition configuration
  • Generate and save a new system partition
  • Delete a system partition

Perspectives launch pad
  • Provides access to system management tools such as SMIT
  • Provides a launch point for all Perspectives
  • You can add applications to the launch pad

SPMON GUI Equivalency: If you previously used the System Monitor GUI to perform hardware administrative tasks, you can now use the Hardware Perspective to perform the equivalent functions. See Performing common administration tasks with SP Perspectives that were previously performed using the System Monitor GUI for more information.


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