CHAPTER 4 PCI Card Hot Maintenance in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
4.7 Hot Addition of PCI Express cards
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4. Powering on a PCI Express slot.
5. Performing the required operating system and software operations depending on the PCI card type
Notes
This section describes instructions for the operating system and subsystems (e.g., commands, configuration
file editing). Be sure to refer to the respective product manuals to confirm the command syntax and impact on
the system before performing tasks with those instructions.
The following sections describe card addition with the required instructions (e.g., commands, configuration file
editing) for the operating system and subsystems, together with the actual hardware operations. Step 3 is
performed by the field engineer in charge of your system.
4.7.2 PCI Express card addition procedure in detail
This section describes operations that must be performed in the PCI Express card addition procedure.
Confirming the slot number of a PCI Express slot
See ‘Confirming the slot number of a PCI Express slot’ in “4.6.2 PCI Express card replacement procedure in
detail”.
Checking the power status of a PCI Express slot
See ‘Checking the power status of a PCI Express slot’ in “4.6.2 PCI Express card replacement procedure in
detail”.
Powering on and off PCI Express slots
See ‘Powering on and off PCI Express slots’ in “4.6.2 PCI Express card replacement procedure in detail”.
Operation for Hot add of PCI Express card by Maintenance Wizard
This item describes Operation for Hot add of PCI Express card (PCIC) by Maintenance Wizard.
Below works are performed by the field engineer in charge of your system.
1. Start [Maintenance Wizard] menu by MMB Web-UI and display [Maintenance Wizard] view.
2. Select [Replace Unit] and click [Next].
3. Select [PCI_Box(PCIC)], click [Next].