PCI Hot Plug technology allows industry-standard PCI adapters to be added or removed without disrupting the operation of the server. This reduces unplanned down time for maintaining or adding disk or LAN adapters. To use hot plug technology, your server hardware must be hot-plug capable.
For a general description of Hot Plug architecture, see PCI Hot Plug Architecture. For a description of the Novell Configuration Manager (the interface used to manage Hot Plug devices), see Introduction to NCMCON.