The Service Processor is a microcontroller on enhanced POS Systems which monitors system health. It monitors temperatures, voltages, fan speeds. It also monitors other critical events which are indicated with a set of Lightpath LEDs.
This package is the IBM proprietary user mode component of the IBM POS Sensor Drivers for Linux 2.0 instrumentation. Together - user mode libraries and kernel module aipsvcp.ko - form instrumentation for IBM RSS Point of Sale systems with Service Processor. The kernel module component is open source and comes as a separate rpm. Both user mode and kernel module components must be installed for the instrumentation to run correctly.
Please also download the appropriate kernel module rpm from the PLDP release site:
http://forgeftp.novell.com/driver-process/staging/pub/update/ibm/sle11/slepos/i586/
The ibm-ipsd-sp-suse-2.0.0-1.0.i586.rpm contains the user mode libraries and support files that form the main part of the instrumentation. This rpm requires that the sblim-sfcb cimserver package is already installed.
% rpm -ivh ibm-ipsd-sp-suse-2.0.0-1.0.i586.rpm
This will install the libraries, update the SFCB repository with class definitions for RSS_SpNumericSensor, RSS_SpNumericSensorAlert and RSS_LedAlarmDevice. It will also install a boot script into /etc/init.d called aipsvcp which is used to start the aipsvcp.ko kernel module mentioned above. This script needs to be enabled (by root) as shown below:
% insserv aipsvcp
The aipsvcp.ko module needs to be loaded for the instrumentation to function
POS Systems supported by version 2.0 are:
The instrumentation will only run on the IBM machines in the list above.
Most IBM customers will want to use RMA to allow interconnection of the instrumentation CIM classes to remote systems management software such as IBM Director. After install of the instrumentation the RMA General Agent daemon on the POS machine should be stopped and restarted in order to pick up repository and other system changes.
More about RMA can be found at: IBM Remote Management Agent V2 R5
The drivers log abnormal conditions to /var/log/ipsd-sp/ipsd-sp.log. For normal production usage there is no need to change this behaviour. In fact it is not recommended. If any problems surface however additional information may be logged for purposes of support.
To enable detailed logging edit the /etc/ipsd-sp/log.conf file. Change the Level property to 4 to enable very detailed trace logging. You may also wish to change the MaxLength property if you wish to log for any length of time as the logfile will fill quickly. Recycle the SFCB cimserver so that the instrumentation libraries pick up the logger configuration changes.
Log Levels:
The instrumentation may run on other operating systems but this is not supported by IBM at this time.
None at this time
Wed May 27 - Initial version