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The OMSA Home Page

Every item that displays in the OMSA device tree on the left hand pane of the OMSA window is a component of the object called System. The unexpanded device tree is structured as follows:

The system may contain one Main System Chassis or several chassis. The Main System Chassis contains the processors and other essential components of a server. The Software component is shown. Essential software components such as the operating system and the systems management software are also assigned to the Main System Chassis.

The third important object that may be present in the System is Storage. An additional chassis may house storage hardware that can be further broken down into storage controllers, disks, and volumes. Some of the components in the storage chassis may be "virtual" components that can be identified and managed by special array management software.

Expanding the Main Chassis Object

When you click Main System Chassis, the following objects contained within the Main System Chassis appear:

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