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4 Common Hardware Management

Operations

About This Chapter

4.1 Active/Standby Switchover

4.2 Setting Temperature Alarm Thresholds
4.3 Setting Temperature Thresholds for Adjusting the Fan Speed

4.1 Active/Standby Switchover

In a stack containing multiple fixed switches, you can manually switch the master and
standby switches during software upgrade or system maintenance. After the active/standby
switchover is complete, the original master switch joins the stack after restarting, and the
original standby switch becomes the new master switch.
On modular switches, you can manually perform an active/standby switchover on MPUs
during software upgrade or system maintenance. After the active/standby switchover is
performed, the running active MPU restarts. The standby MPU becomes the new active MPU.
# To perform an active/standby switchover in the system, run the following commands.
<HUAWEI> system-view
[HUAWEI] slave switchover enable
[HUAWEI] slave switchover
Warning: This operation will switch the slave board to the master board.
Continue? [Y/N]:y

4.2 Setting Temperature Alarm Thresholds

The ambient temperature and device running time affect the device temperature. A higher
ambient temperature and a longer device running time indicate a higher temperature of the
device. When the device temperature exceeds the specified range, the device service life and
performance are reduced. To prevent the device from overheating, set temperature alarm
thresholds for the device. When the device temperature exceeds the specified range, the

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device sends an alarm to the NMS to alert the administrator. The administrator then can take
measures to lower the temperature.

NOTE

Fixed switches support the configuration of temperature alarm thresholds, but modular switched do not.

# To set the lower temperature alarm threshold to 20°C and upper temperature alarm threshold
to 45°C on a device with slot ID 0, run the following commands:
<HUAWEI> system-view
[HUAWEI] temperature threshold slot 0 lower-limit 20 upper-limit 45

4.3 Setting Temperature Thresholds for Adjusting the Fan

Speed
By default, the device uses fixed temperature thresholds to increase and decrease the fan
speed. The fan speed increases when the device temperature exceeds the upper threshold and
decreases when the device temperature falls below the lower threshold. If you want to keep
the device working at a lower temperature, set lower fixed temperature thresholds. When the
device temperature reaches the lowered threshold for increasing the fan speed, the fan speed
will increase. The fan speed will not decrease until the device temperature falls below the
lower threshold for lowering the fan speed.
To view the original temperature thresholds and the adjusted thresholds, run the display fan
speed-adjust threshold minus command.
# To reduce temperature thresholds for adjusting the fan speed by 10°C, run the following
commands.
<HUAWEI> system-view
[HUAWEI] set fan speed-adjust threshold minus 10
Info: Succeeded in setting the fan speed-adjust threshold.

NOTE

l The new thresholds are the fixed temperature thresholds minus threshold-value.
l If a device uses intelligent fan control, this command reduces the temperature thresholds for starting and
stopping the fans. Fans in intelligent heat dissipation mode can only start and stop rotating at a fixed
speed that cannot be increased or reduced.
l You can run the display fan speed-adjust threshold minus command to check temperature thresholds
for fan speed adjustment of fans in intelligent heat dissipation mode. Assume you view that the current
temperature threshold of the fans is 40-50, in which 40°C is the threshold for stopping the fans, and 50°C
is the threshold for starting the fans. When the current device temperature is 45°C, you need to determine
whether fans will rotate according to the fan temperature change:
l When the device temperature is increased to 45°C from a lower temperature (30°C for example),
fans do not rotate because the device temperature does not reach the threshold for starting the fans.
l When the device temperature is reduced to 45°C from a higher temperature (65°C for example),
fans keep rotating because the device temperature does not fall below the threshold for stopping the
fans.

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