MPE/iX System Utilities Reference > Chapter 32 UPSUTIL for MPE/iX

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UPSUTIL is an easy-to-use support tool that helps to manage the UPS Monitor/iX UPS-management subsystem on MPE/iX HP e3000 systems.

Working in conjunction with the system's UPS Monitor/iX UPS management subsystem, UPSUTIL provides easily accessible functions that assist authorized users to:

Check the system to see if the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem is running.

Check the system to see what, if any, UPS LDEVS (logical devices) has been configured.

Check the current operational status of all configured UPS devices on the system.
Control (start, stop, restart, set UPS Monitor configuration file) the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem while the HP e3000 system is running.

These functions make it easy to determine whether the running system has been configured correctly for UPS devices, whether the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem is communicating correctly with the configured UPS devices, and allow an online user to have "stop and start" control over the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem.

The "stop and start" control is valuable in cases where a UPS device may have been removed from the system for repair and is now being reinstalled in the system, or has had its I/O interface cable accidentally or intentionally disconnected and now reconnected. In either of these cases, without UPSUTIL it is necessary to re-boot the system in order to re-start the monitoring of that UPS device by the UPS Monitor/iX subsystem. But with UPSUTIL, the UPS Monitor process may be restarted with the system up, without rebooting the system. This ability reduces system downtime and increases system availability.

Intended Users

UPSUTIL is intended to be used by authorized system users who perform system management functions for the HP e3000 system, such as:

System Managers
System Operators
HP Customer Engineers
HP Response Center Engineers

UPSUTIL is not intended for use by "ordinary" system users.

(Refer to the Product Invocation and Security section of this document for information about limiting usage of UPSUTIL.)

Product Environment

UPSUTIL is intended for and supported for use in an HP e3000 MPE/iX system environment, characterized as follows.

Hardware Environment

UPSUTIL will run correctly on any HP e3000 system platform, but is intended for, and really only useful on, HP e3000 systems that employ the UPS method of power failure protection, such as:

HP3000 Series 991/995/997
HP3000 Series 9X8
HP3000 Series 9x9
HP e3000 N-Class and A-Class
Future HP e3000 systems with UPS devices

While it is possible to run the program harmlessly on other HP e3000 models (where there are no UPS devices), there is nothing useful that UPSUTIL can do on such systems.

Software Environment

UPSUTIL runs under the MPE/iX Operating System, and requires system release "5.0 Push" (Core System Release C.50.00) or later in order to function correctly.

Product Structure

UPSUTIL is structured as a single executable program file, UPSUTIL.MPEXL.TELESUP. There are no message catalog files or other auxiliary files associated with UPSUTIL.

Chapter 32 UPSUTIL for MPE/iX

UPSUTIL OVERVIEW