Administration Guide
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:
- Getting started
- Understanding the SP Perspectives interface
- Accessing help for SP Perspectives
- What you can do with SP Perspectives that was previously done using the
System Monitor GUI
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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