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MergePoint Service Processor Manager SP53XX Installer/User Guide
SMASH CLP Overview
The SMASH CLP is an open standard defining a lightweight protocol for using the command line
to perform out of band management of heterogeneous servers. The CLP is intended for accessing
services provided by service processors for power management, monitoring of sensors and of
system event logs (SEL) and controlling managed servers’ chassis and is suitable for
scripting environments.
The CLP does not provide complete BIOS and operating system management, but the available text
console (serial console) functionality provides a text interface to the server BIOS and operating
system for the execution of commands and scripts. The CLP includes support for Secure Shell
(SSH) and Telnet.
SMASH CLP also includes a direct mapping to a subset of the common information model
(CIM) schema.
SMASH CLP implementation
Because CIM server implementations are not generally available in servers that are shipping today,
the MergePoint SP manager’s implementation of the SMASH CLP provides a virtualized CIM
environment that manages interfaces that are not based on CIM.
Each of these embedded technologies provides different levels of capability and different
presentations of the management interface. To provide a consistent standards-based interface to
manage and interact with the underlying systems, the MergePoint SP manager translates the user’s
SMASH CLP commands into the proprietary server vendor commands and performs the specified
actions. The SMASH CLP commands make it possible for a user or programmer to write one script
to manage server hardware from multiple vendors.
The MergePoint SP manager’s implementation provides command completion (using the Tab key),
command history and command line editing (using the arrow and backspace keys), which are
features outside the scope of the protocol.
The MergePoint SP manager supports several OEM extensions not currently defined in the CLP
profile. For example, the /admin1/map1/oemavocent_discoverysap1 target was implemented to
support the automatic discovery of managed servers.
The commands supported on the MergePoint SP manager can be used to perform the actions shown
in the following table for each service processor type.
Table 8.1: Actions Supported for Each Server Type
Action Where Documented
Control power Managing power or rebooting a managed server on page 140
Access redirected console data (SoL) Showing console redirection to an service processor on page 142
View system event logs (SEL) Viewing system event logs for managed servers on page 143