Installing IBM PCI Hot Plug and Fault Tolerant Management Interface

Installing IBM PCI Hot Plug and Fault Tolerant Management Interface

You must use the following software to provide IBM PCI Hot Plug and Fault Tolerant Management support for hot plug-capable IBM Netfinity systems.
You can download this software from www.ibm.com/pc/support/netfinity .

Intel DMI Agent
IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and Fault Tolerant Management Interface
IBM Fault Tolerant Device Drivers

You can install the same components on a non Hot Plug systems in order to support the following:

Monitor the status of every Fault Tolerant group on the network.
Force a failover remotely from an active adapter to its backup.
Monitor the status of Hot Plug PCI slots on Hot Plug-compatible servers on the network.

Step 1: Installing Windows NT4.0 SP4 or SP5

You must install Windows NT4.0SP4 or SP5 in order to proceed to the next steps.
You can find system configuration information on the following IBM page on the World Wide Web:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/support

Step 2: Installing Intel DMI agent

This software will install DMI version 2.0 on your system.
You must install the DMI agent before you can install the IBM PCI Hot Plug Services.

If DMI is already installed on your system, proceed to installing IBM PCI Hot Plug Services.

Download the DMI Agent exe file from the web page and extract the files onto a diskette.
Insert the diskette into the floppy drive.
From the Start menu, select Run.
Type A:\Setup.exe in the Open box.
Click OK. The Setup wizard opens.
Check both 'DMI 2.0 Service Provider' and 'DMI 2.0 DCE Client' items.
Follow the instructions on the setup wizard until the program is installed.
Reboot.

Step 3: Installing IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and Fault Tolerant Management Interface

Download the IBM PCI Hot Plug Services and Fault Tolerant Management Interface exe file from the web page and extract the files onto a diskette.
Log in to Windows NT as a user in the Administrator group.
Insert the diskette into the floppy drive.
From the Start menu, Select Run.
Type A:\SETUP.EXE in the Open box.
Click OK. The Setup wizard opens.
Follow the instructions on the setup wizard until the program is installed.
Notes: If you have an older version of IBM PCI Hot Plug Services on your system a message box will prompt you to upgrade.
Otherwise, click Yes and the Setup wizard will guide you through the rest of the installation.

Step 4: Installing Hot Plug Adapters Software

Please read the adapter's user manual for specific Hot Plug and Fault Tolerant support.
To insure that any of the Hot Plug features work properly, you must install the Hot Plug aware drivers.
If you already have an adapter configured on your system make sure that the drivers are Hot Plug aware.
In the case of an old version of the driver, those must be removed and replaced with the latest.
A reboot will be required.

Download the driver .exe file from the web page and extract the files onto a diskette.
Place the diskette into the floppy drive.
Proceed with the normal upgrade of the adapter drivers.
Please consult the documentation that came with your adapter or contact the manufacturer of the adapter for further information.
(Note: Most of the time, you will need to remove the old driver and reinstall the adapter with the new one)
Reboot

Step 5: Tips to know before using PCI Hot Plug features and Fault Tolerant Management Interface

Hot Plug Aware Drivers

To insure that any of the Hot Plug features work properly, you must install the Hot Plug aware drivers.
If you already have an adapter configured on your system make sure that the drivers are Hot Plug aware.
In the case of an old version of the driver, those must be removed and replaced with the latest.
A reboot will be required.

Hot Add of an Adapter previously removed

When an administrator attempts to Hot-Add a SCSI or RAID adapter on a Hot Plug system on which the adapter has already been installed and removed, the Hot Add will fail.

The administrator is strongly advised to mark all SCSI drivers which have no device as "DISABLED" via the Devices Control Applet.
This will prevent the driver from being started and allow the Hot Add to proceed normally.

MAC address incorrect (all zeros) for Hot Added card

After a Hot Add of an NIC Card, the MAC addresses are being returned as all zeros (000000000000).
This does not affect the abilities of the adapter.

Hot Remove

Hot Remove is the ability to remove an adapter completely. This feature is NOT supported.

Best Time to perform PCI Hot Plug action

It is highly recommended to perform any of the PCI Hot Plug features during low traffic.

Reboot Message

After Hot Adding an adapter, the Windows NT applications (Network Applet and SCSI Applet) will ask the user to Reboot. DO NOT REBOOT!

Event Log Message " CreateFile failed to \\\\.\\pipe\\hotsrv "
Event ID: 1007
Source: ipssvc
Type: error
Category : none

This behavior is logged in the Event Viewer as a step to trace events.
The Hot Swap wizard may log such error if the system is unable to fulfill the request at the time.
Since the Hot Swap wizard retries 5 times before giving up.
If the Hot Swap worked correctly, you can ignore this message.

Fault Tolerant Management Interface Limitations

When managing a server remotely, there may be a few minutes where DMI events on a remotely managed machine could be missed by the FTMI service on the managing machine.
Under heavy stress, FTMI may take up to several minutes to refresh adapters status.

DHCP will only bind to the first NIC adapter in an NT system.

While Hot Adding an adapter in a DHCP server, clients attached to that Hot Added NIC will not receive an IP address from the DHCP.

Same Network

It is not recommended to add two stand alone NIC adapters connected to the same network.

Hot Adding Two 'IBM PCI Token Ring 2' Adapters

When Hot Adding two IBM PCI Token Ring II cards into the same PCI bus, the Hot Plug service may enter two warnings into the event log:

IBM PCI Hot Plug Services: An active unclaimed PCI resource will be deactivated: Bus 1, DeviceNumber 1, BAR[2] = F7FFF000 value. IBM PCI Hot Plug Services: An active unclaimed PCI resource will be deactivated: Bus 1, DeviceNumber 1, BAR[1] = F7FFFF00 value.
These warnings are expected. The cards do not use these resources.

ServeRAID on Netfinity 7000 M10

Do Not Hot Add a ServeRAID adapter in slot 11 and 12.

Windows NT will look for a boot device on that ServeRAID card and fail to boot from the onboard drive.
Hot Adding this adapter also while the default is NT VGA mode will make the system unusable and will require a reboot.

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