Avocent MERGEPOINT 53XX SP MANAGER, Installer/User Manual

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MergePoint Service Processor Manager SP53XX Installer/User Guide
• Indications Profile
• Host LAN Network Port Profile
• CPU Profile
• System Memory Profile
For a complete list of supported service processors, see the MergePoint SP manager release notes.
Terms
This section defines CLP-specific terms used in this guide.
The CLP specifies the syntax and semantics used to manipulate managed elements (MEs), which
are specified as Targets in CLP commands. See Targets on page 130 for the managed elements
supported by the MergePoint SP manager.
The CLP command response protocol allows a text command message to be transmitted from the
client over the transport protocol to the Manageability Access Point (MAP), which in this
implementation is within the MergePoint SP manager. The MAP receives the command, processes
it and sends a response back to the client.
Users can specify one of three output formats that are supported in the MergePoint SP manager:
text, clpxml and keyword. The text format is the default. The other two output formats are
structured to support automatic parsing by customer-created scripts: clpxml output is in XML
format; keyword output is in the form of keyword/value pairs separated with the end-of-line
characters.
The CLP targets are structured in a tree format with the root node /admin1 at the top and the map1
node representing the MAP itself. Within the MAP, systems are represented as individual leaf
nodes, and operations and attributes of each system are further displayed as nested leaf nodes under
each corresponding system.
Actions can be performed by entering the name of a specific target (for example, “system1”) or of a
group of targets by using a wildcard (for example, “system*”).
Some command verbs have implicit command targets (ICTs) defined as part of the verb. When the
verb does not have an ICT, the CDT environment variable is used by the command processor to
determine the target for a command.
The CD verb is used to navigate the CLP tree like a directory structure.
Explicit targets may be specified with full (absolute) or partial (relative) target names. An absolute
name is referred to as an absolute target address (ATA). ATAs identify the target by specifying its
full pathname from the root node. For example, /admin1/system1/log1 is an ATA.
A relative name is referred to as a relative target address (RTA). RTAs identify the target in the
context of the current location in the tree. For example, the following RTA when entered at the
/admin1/system1 location, goes up one level and then down two levels to access log1 under
system2:
../system2/log1
.