Power On ATCA shelf

More information about how to use ATCA shelf manager see here:  simple User Guide for the ATCA Shelf Manager


Steps to power the ATCA shelf

  1. connecting the ethernet cable to the ATCA shelf manager
  2. connecting the power cable, and the ATCA shelf will run with the default setup. 
  3. need to turn the cooling fan to lower speed to reduce noise
    1. ssh login to the shelf manager
      1. login to rddev111 at first
      2. ssh to the shelf manager: ssh root@atlas-sm 
    2. check fan state with cmd:

      1. clia fans  
      2. clia shelf fans_state
    3. disable auto fan with cmd:

      1. clia setfanpolicy 20 6 disable
      2. clia setfanpolicy 20 7 disable
    4. set fan min level with cmd:

      1.  clia minfanlevel 20 6 2
      2. clia minfanlevel 20 7 2
    5. set fan level with cmd:

      1. clia setfanlevel 20 6 2
      2. clia setfanlevel 20 7 2

Power On COB board

installed the COB board, COB-41, to the 4th slot of this crate. 


install ethernet cable


reading the small screen and the LEDs to figure out the status

if the LED is green, looks like everything working as expected. 

If the LED is red, something is wrong, see below:


It's a little bit complicated to get the DTM and DPMs IP right, need to manually do step by step

  1. login to rddev111
  2. ping dtm with cmd: ping cob_dtm. 
    1. if failed to ping the cob_dtm, could power cycle the COB
      1. open this switch , and the LED will turn to blue
      2. close this switch, and the LED will turn off in a few second, and waiting for ~1 mins, try to ping cob_dtm again
  3. ping dpms with cmd: ping cob_dpmXY  (as shown in the table below)
    1. for our setup, the cob_dpm7 is for the DPM0_rce0; cob_dpm8 is for the DPM0_rce2; the cob_dpm5 is for the DPM1_rce0; cob_dpm6 is for the DPM1_rce2; the cob_dpm3 is for the DPM3_rce0; cob_dpm4 is for the DPM3_rce2;
    2. if failed to ping the dpmX, need to restart it manually
      1. login to rddev111
      2. ssh cob_dtm
        ethtool  -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
      3. setup RCE SDK with cmd: source /opt/rce/setup.sh
      4. manually restart rce with Cmd: cob_rce_reset  [/slot[/bay[/rce]]]
        1. you can get help by: cob_rce_reset --help
        2. for our setup, the slot number is 4; if I want to restart the cob_dpm00, for example, it is the DPM0_rce0, the the bay number is 0, and rce number is 0. So, the full Cmd is "cob_rce_reset  atlas-sm/4/0/0"
        3. waiting about 3 mins for RCE to reboot
      5. you can also login dtm at first, them minicom to the dpm rce, with cmd: minicom bayX.Y   (X is the bay number, Y is the rce number)

        RCERCE IP-namereboot cmdminicom name
        DPM3/RCE0cob_dpm30cob_rce_reset atlas-sm/4/3/0minicom bay3.0
        DPM3/RCE2cob_dpm32cob_rce_reset atlas-sm/4/3/2minicom bay3.2
        DPM1/RCE0cob_dpm10cob_rce_reset atlas-sm/4/1/0minicom bay1.0
        DPM1/RCE2cob_dpm12cob_rce_reset atlas-sm/4/1/2minicom bay1.2
        DPM0/RCE0cob_dpm00cob_rce_reset  atlas-sm/4/0/0minicom bay0.0
        DPM0/RCE2cob_dpm02cob_rce_reset  atlas-sm/4/0/2

        minicom bay0.2

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