System Service Processor
The System Service Processor (often abreviated as SSP) is a SPARC based computer that is used to control the Sun Microsystems Enterprise 10000 platform. The term SSP is often used to describe both the hardware and the software that are necessary to accomplish this task.
The following systems were supported for use as System Service Processors[1]:
- |Sun Ultra 5
- |Sun Enterprise 250
- Sun Netra T1
The System Service Processor software provided for the following functionality[2]:
- Environmental monitoring and automated domain-shutdown in the event of an out-of-bounds condition, such as a CPU getting too hot.
- The creation and destruction of domains
- The ability to boot domains
- Domain console device
- Dynamic Reconfiguration of domains, in which CPU, memory, and/or Input-Output boards are added to or removed from a running domain.
- Assign multiple paths to Input-Output devices for increased availability
- Monitor and display platform environmental statistics, such as the tempratures, currents, and voltages present on System Boards
- Monitor and control power flow to the platform components such as System Boards and Control Boards
- Power On Self Test and similar platform diagnostics
- Logging and Notification for various platform events
- The creation and destruction of Inter Domain Networks (IDNs) which allow for TCP/IP connectivity between domains, across the platform's centerplane.
- Support for a dual power-grid option
Several utilities were provided with the SSP software packages, including hostview, a program that provided an X Window System interface for platform maintenance, and several CLI programs.
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