Emerson 4620 Manuel D’Utilisation

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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
 
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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.