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News Release from: Pigeon Point Systems | Subject: Pigeon Point OpenHPI
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2007
Plug-in aids hardware management
Pigeon Point has created a Pigeon Point plug-in that is tuned and validated with the Pigeon Point Shelf Manager and complies with the SAF HPI-to-ATCA Mapping specification.
Pigeon Point Systems has released Pigeon Point OpenHPI for use with its Pigeon Point Shelf Manager The Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) is defined by the Service Availability Forum and provides an abstracted interface for managing computer hardware, including bladed shelf/chassis architectures such as ATCA and IBM Bladecentre
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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HPI is emerging as a strongly favoured foundation layer among major network equipment providers (NEPs) for management layers that monitor systems based on ATCA and other types of hardware platforms.
OpenHPI is an open-source implementation of HPI that includes a plug-in architecture to simplify and modularise the support of disparate hardware platforms, including several plug-ins that support IPMI-managed platforms like ATCA and SNMP-managed platforms like Bladecentre.
Pigeon Point has created a Pigeon Point plug-in that is tuned and validated with the Pigeon Point Shelf Manager and complies with the SAF HPI-to-ATCA Mapping specification.
Pigeon Point OpenHPI is ready for use with any of the thousands of Pigeon Point ShMM-500R shelf management mezzanines that manage the majority of the world's ATCA shelves.
Pigeon Point OpenHPI benefits from the broad use of OpenHPI across a range of hardware platforms, plus intensive validation and use on the ATCA platforms of major Pigeon Point customers.
Pigeon Point OpenHPI is delivered on a subscription basis that provides direct Pigeon Point technical support for the full OpenHPI package by Pigeon Point's ATCA and OpenHPI experts.
The current release is based on OpenHPI 2.8.1.
Pigeon Point's corrections and enhancements to OpenHPI outside the Pigeon Point plug-in are being published back to the OpenHPI open source project and many of them have already been integrated into the current OpenHPI source code.
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