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AG Board Locate Utility: blocate

Name

blocate

Purpose

Determines the PCI bus and PCI slot assignments for all NMS PCI boards installed in the system.

Usage

blocate [ options ]

where options are:

Options

Description

pci_bus pci_slot

Specifies the PCI bus and slot location of the board on which to flash an LED.

Description

Displays the PCI bus and PCI slot number for all NMS PCI boards installed in the system.

Procedure

To run blocate, enter:

blocate

The output will be similar to the following:

Thu Aug 13 15:51:22 There was 1 NMS PCI card detected

BUS SLOT INTERRUPT
00 14 0xf

The board configuration is also logged to the ASCII text file with the current date and time. The file nmspci.rpt is created in the current working directory.

To flash an LED on a specific NMS PCI board, call blocate with the PCI bus and PCI slot locations. For example:

blocate 0 14

The following will be displayed:

Flashing LED for NMS PCI board on bus 0 slot 14

The board locator LED on the board will flash.

Figure 33. Board Locate Indicator

Note

agmon should not be running when executing the AG board locate utility. If agmon is running, an error message will be generated and the utility will exit.



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