Onboard Administrator

To be added to the PMAC hardware inventory, OA hardware must be physically installed and in service. Then OAs are added to the enclosure configuration. PMAC is provisioned with the OA IP address of the active OA and the standby OA. If a failure occurs, the standby OA automatically takes over the role of active OA and PMAC automatically uses the new OA.

Caution:

Both OA IP addresses must be installed, the OA IP address must be configured in PMAC using the Add Enclosure or the Edit Enclosure command. If this configuration is not performed, PMAC does not have a connection to the newly active OA after an OA failover, and consequently, has no knowledge of the system hardware.

The PMAC GUI lets an authorized user perform the following operations:

• Add an Onboard Administrator to the hardware inventory as part of the enclosure configuration (see Adding an enclosure ).
• Add a standby OA to an existing enclosure configuration.
• Inform PMAC of a change in the active or standby OA's IP address.
• Remove an OA from an enclosure configuration.
• View a list of the provisioned OAs in the hardware inventory.

Any changes to the configuration cause the enclosure to be rediscovered by PMAC.