SAFplus Hardware Management
SAFplus can be integrated with an ATCA chassis manager via an additional product called the SAFplus Platform Support Package.
However, for non-ATCA systems, SAFplus provides some simple APIs to allow your custom hardware manager to report errors to the AMF. If your hardware manager can report a sensor error such as a severe overtemperature event to the AMF, this will allow the AMF to transition AIS (software) services onto a redundant blade before a failure actually occurs.
AMF Hardware Manager API
The AMF API is located in the header file "clCmIpi.h", and implementation in the libmw.a library. This API is only available to SAF-aware applications that have successfully initialized AMF services (via the saAmfInitialize API). The following events can be communicated to the AMF:
- CL_CM_BLADE_SURPRISE_EXTRACTION
The node was abruptly removed
- CL_CM_BLADE_REQ_EXTRACTION
The node's power button was pushed or latch was opened -- extraction is imminent.
- CL_CM_BLADE_REQ_INSERTION
The node's latch was closed
- CL_CM_BLADE_NODE_ERROR_REPORT
Your software has determined (via a sensor read) that failure is imminent. Software applications should be transitioned away from this node.
- CL_CM_BLADE_NODE_ERROR_CLEAR
The node has returned to nominal behavior, software applications may be returned to this node.
This event type is combined with information identifying the FRU (node) that has the problem:
typedef struct
{
/** The event (described above) */ ClCmCpmMsgTypeT cmCpmMsgType; /** The slot number (node identifier) with the problem */ ClUint32T physicalSlot; /** For future use */ ClUint32T subSlot ; /** Not to be used by AMF, can be used by the hardware manager to identify the problem */ ClUint32T resourceId;
} ClCmCpmMsgT;
And passed to the AMF via a simple API:
extern ClRcT clCpmHotSwapEventHandle(ClCmCpmMsgT *pCmCpmMsg);
The AMF will use this information to move software applications on nodes with no issues to standby nodes, or to transition applications back to nodes that have returned to a nominal state.
AMF Hardware Manager API Example
The following routine generates a node error report or error clear based on the passed "asserted" variable.
void clCmInformAMFBySlot(ClUint32T slotId, ClBoolT asserted)
{
ClRcT rc = CL_OK; ClCmCpmMsgT cmCpmMsg; const ClCharT *msg; memset(&cmCpmMsg, 0, sizeof(ClCmCpmMsgT));
cmCpmMsg.physicalSlot = slotId;
if (asserted)
{
cmCpmMsg.cmCpmMsgType = CL_CM_BLADE_NODE_ERROR_REPORT;
msg = "(imminent) failure";
}
else
{
cmCpmMsg.cmCpmMsgType = CL_CM_BLADE_NODE_ERROR_CLEAR;
msg = "recovery";
}
rc = clCpmHotSwapEventHandle(&cmCpmMsg);
if (CL_OK != rc)
{
clLog(CL_LOG_ERROR, AREA_HPI, CTX_EVT,
"Failed to notify AMF about [%s] of slot [%d]", msg, slotId);
return;
}
clLog(CL_LOG_INFO, AREA_HPI, CTX_EVT, "Notified AMF about [%s] of slot [%d]", msg, slotId);
}