PCI Hot-Plug Manager Access
The installation instructions for hot-pluggable PCI adapters refer you to these
procedures when it is appropriate to perform them.
Note: A PCI adapter is only hot-pluggable if the PCI adapter supports hot-plug
applications. See the
PCI Adapter Placement Reference
, order number
SA38-0538.
Accessing Hot-Plug Management Functions
Note: Removing or installing a Hot-Pluggable PCI adapter requires the system
administrator to take the PCI adapter offline prior to performing the operation.
Before taking an adapter offline, the devices attached to the adapter must be
taken offline as well. This action prevents a service representative or user from
causing an unexpected outage for system users.
For additional information about taking an adapter offline or removing it from the
system configuration, see the
AIX System Management Guide: Operating
System and Devices
.
Documentation for the AIX operating system is available from the IBM Eserver
pSeries Information Center at
http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/infocenter/base. Select AIX
documentation. The
AIX Documentation
CD contains the base set of
publications for the operating system, including system-management and
end-user documentation.
To access the hot-plug menus, do the following:
1. Log in as root user. If the system is a partitioned system, log in as root user on the
partition that has the adapter assigned to it.
2. At the command line, type smitty.
3. Select Devices.
4. Select PCI Hot Plug Manager and press Enter.
5. The PCI Hot-Plug Manager menu displays. Return to the procedure that directed
you here. For a description of the menu options, see below.
PCI Hot-Plug Manager Menu
The following options are available from the PCI Hot Plug Manager menu:
Note: For information about the PCI slot LED states, see “I/O Subsystem PCI-X Slot
LED Definitions” on page 3.
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