Enclosure management

The PMAC GUI facilitates enclosure management by providing options to view the enclosures provisioned in the hardware inventory and to make additions and changes to that inventory.

Adding an enclosure to the hardware inventory identifies the enclosure to the PMAC application so that PMAC can then begin managing and monitoring the enclosure. Adding the enclosure also associates it to a cabinet. Between 1 and 3 enclosures can be associated to the same cabinet in the PMAC hardware inventory.

The PMAC GUI provides an option to delete an enclosure. Deleting the enclosure removes it from the PMAC hardware inventory. The operation does not shut the enclosure down.

The PMAC GUI provides an option to edit an enclosure configuration. This option is used to inform PMAC of the IP addresses of the enclosure's OAs.

Once enclosures have been provisioned into the PMAC hardware inventory, the PMAC GUI lets you pull up a list of all the provisioned enclosures. You can launch the Add Enclosure, Delete Enclosure, and Edit Enclosure commands from that page.

Enclosure inventory options in the PMAC GUI let you drill-down to view details about a given enclosure and its components.

When an enclosure is added to the inventory, PMAC launches a background task that discovers the hardware present within the enclosure. You can then view from the PMAC GUI the hardware components (server blades, switches, Onboard Administrators, fans, and power supplies) that are discovered in the enclosure.

You can also see from the PMAC GUI if the state of a device changes. An enclosure diagram in the GUI lets you point and click to obtain information or launch a procedure on the selected device.

You can tell from the PMAC GUI menu whether a bay's orientation is front or rear. PMAC appends an F on the front bays labels and R on the rear bay labels. For example, Bay 7F indicates that the bay is a front bay.

See Enclosures for additional information related to enclosure provisioning and management.