Artesyn System Management Interface Based on HPI-B (Centellis CO 31kX-4100-2000-4410) (June 2014) - Manual (Page 17)

Chapter 1
System Management Interface Based on HPI-B (Centellis CO31kX/4100/2000/4410) User’s Guide 17
System Management Interface Overview
1.1 Introduction
Artesyn provides an SAF Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) as part of its AdvancedTCA
platforms. HPI provides an industry standard interface to monitor and control highly available
telecommunications system platforms. The ability to monitor and control these platforms is
provided through a consistent and standard set of programmatic interfaces that are targeted
for adoption by the telecom building block industry to significantly reduce product time-to-
market and development costs while retaining or enhancing total system/network availability.
HPI provides the interface between the middleware software solution stack and the hardware
solution stack, allowing portability of middleware software building blocks across many
different hardware platforms and portability of hardware platforms across many different
middleware software building blocks.
This guide describes the HPI-B implementation targeted at the Artesyn AdvancedTCA Centellis
CO 31K, Centellis 4100, Centellis 2000 and Centellis 4410 platforms.
1.2 Standard Compliances
The Artesyn HPI-B implementation is compliant to the following standards.
Although the standards listed above are fulfilled, some specific limitations apply. For details,
refer to
Limitations on page 39 .
Table 1-1 HPI-B Standards Supported by Artesyn HPI-B Implementation
Standard Description
SAI-HPI-B.02.01 HPI-B base specification. It abstracts hardware
platform characteristics into a data model
consisting of entities and resources.
SAIM-HPI-B.0101-ATCA HPI-B-AdvancedTCA mapping specification. It
provides a vendor independent hardware
platform view of an AdvancedTCA system.
Firmware Update Management Instrument
(FUMI), specified in HPI-B-02.01 Mechanism which allows remote firmware
upgrade via HPI-B without service interruption.
Includes a fall-back feature.