Silicon Graphics TP9100, Installation Instructions And User Manual

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Chapter 1
1. Introduction
Product Overview
The Total Performance Manager (TPM) application is an HTML-based GUI RAID
client-server application manager. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface
(GUI) for configuring and monitoring external RAID disk subsystems that use several
families of RAID controller engines. TPM consists of two programs that run natively on
an IRIX, Windows, or Linux system that is physically attached to a RAID storage
subsystem. All communication is through the Fibre Channel (FC) controller, so that no
RS-232 interface is required. The application incorporates an embedded Web server to
provide the user interface to a user-supplied Web browser.
Note: TPM supports only external RAID controllers. It does not support internal RAID
controllers, such as the Mylex AcceleRAID cards used in some SGI computing platforms.
Once the TPM service routine is running on a host server, it may be interfaced to any
modern Web browser that supports HTML level 3 or higher. This includes Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer 4.x and above, and Netscape Navigator 3.x and above. The browser
client does not have to be located on the computer running the TPM service routine. The
browser also does not have to be running locally. If TPM is running on a computer with
Internet access, the browser can communicate with TPM through a dial-up connection
(provided there is no firewall blockage).
To communicate with the TPM service, enter the URL on which the TPM is listening. By
default, TPM starts on port 2002. Therefore, if your host server is configured for IP
address 192.168.1.99, set your web browser to the following URL:
http://192.168.1.99:2002