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System Management Interface Based on HPI-B (Centellis 4620) User’s Guide (6806800D85A)
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System Management Interfaces
Overview
1.1 Introduction
Emerson provides an SAF Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) as part of its AdvancedTCA
platforms. HPI provides an industry standard interface to monitor and control highly available
telecommunications system platforms. The ability to monitor and control these platforms is
provided through a consistent and standard set of programmatic interfaces that are targeted for
adoption by the telecom building block industry to significantly reduce product time-to-market
and development costs while retaining or enhancing total system/network availability.
HPI provides the interface between the middleware software solution stack and the hardware
solution stack, allowing portability of middleware software building blocks across many different
hardware platforms and portability of hardware platforms across many different middleware
software building blocks.
This guide describes the HPI-B implementation targeted at the Emerson AdvancedTCA
Centellis 4620 platform.
1.2 Standard Compliances
The Emerson HPI-B implementation for the Centellis 4620 environment is compliant to the
following standards.
Although the standards listed above are fulfilled, some specific limitations apply. For details,
refer to Limitations on page 27.
1.3 Architecture
The Emerson HPI implementation is provided in the form of a client-server architecture. In the
Centellis 4620 system environment the server, called HPI daemon, runs on the ATCA-F120
switch blade, and the client, which is constituted by an HPI library and an application which links
that library, runs on any node within a shelf. Internally each HPI daemon is connected to a Shelf
Table 1-1 HPI-B Standards Supported by Emerson HPI-B Implementation
Standard Description
SAI-HPI-B.01.02 HPI-B base specification. It abstracts hardware
platform characteristics into a data model
consisting of entities and resources.
SAIM-HPI-B.02.01-ATCA HPI-B-AdvancedTCA mapping specification. It
provides a vendor independent hardware
platform view of an AdvancedTCA system.