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SMASH CLP Overview
The SMASH CLP is an open standard defining a lightweight protocol for using the command
line to perform out of band management of heterogeneous servers. The CLP is intended for
accessing services provided by service processors for power management, monitoring of sensors
and of system event logs (SEL) and controlling managed servers chassis and is suitable for
scripting environments.
The CLP does not provide complete BIOS and operating system management, but the available
text console (serial console) functionality provides a text interface to the server BIOS and
operating system for the execution of commands and scripts. The CLP includes support for
Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet.
SMASH CLP also includes a direct mapping to a subset of the common information model
(CIM) schema.
SMASH CLP implementation
Because CIM server implementations are not generally available in servers that are shipping
today, the MergePoint SP managers implementation of the SMASH CLP provides a virtualized
CIM environment that manages interfaces that are not based on CIM.
Each of these embedded technologies provides different levels of capability and different
presentations of the management interface. To provide a consistent standards-based interface to
manage and interact with the underlying systems, the MergePoint SP manager translates the
user’s SMASH CLP commands into the proprietary server vendor commands and performs the
specified actions. The SMASH CLP commands make it possible for a user or programmer to
write one script to manage server hardware from multiple vendors.
The MergePoint SP manager’s implementation provides command completion (using the Tab
key), command history and command line editing (using the arrow and backspace keys), which
are features outside the scope of the protocol.
The MergePoint SP manager supports several OEM extensions not currently defined in the CLP
profile. For example, the /admin1/map1/oemavocent_discoverysap1 target was implemented to
support the automatic discovery of managed servers.
The commands supported on the MergePoint SP manager can be used to perform the actions
shown in the following table for each service processor type.
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