Spyre Support Appliance for IBM Z & IBM LinuxONE User's Guide
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This publication, the Spyre Support Appliance for IBM Z® & IBM® LinuxONE User's Guide, is available for download here.
This publication contains information about the Spyre Support Appliance for IBM Z & IBM LinuxONE on the 9175 system.
Unless otherwise stated, throughout this document "9175" refers to the IBM® z17®™ (Model ME1) or IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 (Model ML1).
The use of the terms, "server", "processor", "system" and "all models" in this publication refer to the 9175. Figures included in this document illustrate concepts and are not necessarily accurate in content, appearance, or specific behavior.
The Spyre Support Appliance (SSA) is a purpose-built solution for managing, monitoring, and diagnosing Spyre cards attached to an IBM Z Logical Partition (LPAR). The SSA continuously monitors all connected Spyre cards to maintain efficiency and enable proactive error handling.
When initialized, SSA activates all detected Spyre cards that are assigned to the LPAR. It monitors the system every second to detect newly added or removed cards and dynamically performs initialization or cleanup as needed. In addition to lifecycle management, SSA collects key metrics and health data for each Spyre card to maintain performance and detect issues early.
- Manage card states
- Retrieve error logs
- Run diagnostic routines and retrieve results
- Collect system-level and AIU-specific metrics
This guide outlines the core features of SSA, provides usage instructions for its REST interfaces, and explains how to interpret health and diagnostic information to ensure the effective management of Spyre hardware in your environment.