Blade management

The PMAC GUI provides interfaces that enable you to retrieve data about the blades in the PMAC hardware inventory. You can point and click to the bay where a given blade resides. From there, you can view summary or hardware information about the blade. You can obtain detailed information about the blade such as blade type.

A server blade is a general purpose blade that hosts telecommunications software. The PMAC GUI lets you launch operations on a server blade such as installing the TPD operating system on one or more blades simultaneously. You can perform a warm reset on a server blade, which restarts the server blade. Or you can perform a cold reset on a server blade or a switch. The cold reset command restarts the blade.

The Onboard Administrator controls power to the server blades. When a server blade is inserted into a bay, the server blade communicates with the Onboard Administrator to negotiate power and server blade activation.

The Onboard Administrator is configured to activate automatically any server blade coming up, which allows the server blade to get its power allocation.

See Blades for additional information related to blade management.