NAT-MCH Users Manual Version 1.16

NAT-MCH – Users Manual
4.3.2 Temperature Management ............................................................................................................ 28
4.4 NAT-MCHS OPERATING WITH UNMANAGED POWER MODULES ........................................................ 28
5 MCH CONFIGURATION........................................................................................................................ 30
5.1 CONFIGURATION VIA CONSOLE PORT ................................................................................................. 30
5.2 CONFIGURATION VIA THE WEB INTERFACE....................................................................................... 31
5.3 CUSTOMIZING THE NETWORK CONFIGURATION ................................................................................. 31
5.4 DISPLAYING AND CHANGING MCH OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS ....................................................... 31
5.4.1 MCH Global Parameters [3] ........................................................................................................ 32
5.4.2 Shelf Manager Configuration [4].................................................................................................. 34
5.4.3 Carrier Manager Configuration [5] ............................................................................................. 34
5.4.4 SEL Configuration Flags [6] ........................................................................................................ 35
5.4.5 GbE Switch Configuration [7] ...................................................................................................... 35
5.4.6 CLK Module Configuration [8] (optional).................................................................................... 35
5.4.7 PCIe Switch Configuration [9] (optional) .................................................................................... 36
5.4.8 SRIO Switch Configuration [9] (optional).................................................................................... 37
5.4.9 NTP Configuration [10]................................................................................................................ 37
5.4.10 DHCP Configuration [11] ....................................................................................................... 37
6 UPDATING THE MCH FIRMWARE.................................................................................................... 38
6.1 FIRMWARE UPDATE FROM WITHIN THE RUNNING MCH FIRMWARE ................................................... 38
6.2 FIRMWARE UPDATE FROM BOOTLOADER ........................................................................................... 38
6.3 FIRMWARE UPDATE............................................................................................................................ 38
7 MANAGEMENT INTERFACE............................................................................................................... 40
7.1 SOFTWARE STRUCTURE ...................................................................................................................... 40
7.2 COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HOST SYSTEM AND MCH ....................................................................... 42
7.2.1 Remote management control protocol .......................................................................................... 42
7.2.2 Supported IPMI messages............................................................................................................. 42
7.3 HOST SOFTWARE OVERVIEW............................................................................................................... 42
7.3.1 N.A.T. JAVA GUI application ‘NatView’...................................................................................... 42
7.3.2 Ipmitool ......................................................................................................................................... 45
7.3.3 OpenHPI ....................................................................................................................................... 46
8 COMMAND LINE INTERFACE............................................................................................................ 51
9 WEBSERVER ........................................................................................................................................... 55
10 CLOCK MODULE CONFIGURATION................................................................................................ 57
10.1 PLL REFERENCE INPUT CONFIGURATION........................................................................................... 58
10.2 PLL MODE CONFIGURATION.............................................................................................................. 59
10.3 CLOCK TYPE CONFIGURATION ........................................................................................................... 60
10.4 CLOCK OUTPUT CONFIGURATION....................................................................................................... 61
10.5 WRITE CLOCK MODULE REGISTER..................................................................................................... 62
10.6 OR VALUE TO CLOCK MODULE REGISTER......................................................................................... 63
10.7 AND VALUE TO CLOCK MODULE REGISTER...................................................................................... 64
11 HARDWARE RELEASES ....................................................................................................................... 65
11.1 KNOWN HARDWARE ISSUES ............................................................................................................... 65
12 GIVE US A HINT ! ................................................................................................................................... 66
APPENDIX A CONNECTOR PINOUTS................................................................................................. 67
APPENDIX A 1 CONSOLE CONNECTOR – RS232........................................................................................... 67
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