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9130TXA (Unmanaged)

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9130TXA-M (Managed)

includes Argon Managed PC Boot Agent
(MBA) Boot ROM for remote management.

User’

Guide

10/100Mbps PCI

Fast Ethernet Adapter

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Page 1: ...130TXA Unmanaged with empty Boot ROM socket 9130TXA M Managed includes Argon Managed PC Boot Agent MBA Boot ROM for remote management User s Guide 10 100Mbps PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter h t t p w w w A...

Page 2: ...a network speed that will optimize your network performance Also with full duplex function this card can provide a bandwidth of up to 200Mbps in your network Support Wake On LAN When this card receiv...

Page 3: ...802 3 IEEE 802 3u IEEE 802 3x Bus Architecture PCI V 2 2 2 1 32 bit 33MHz Network Port UTP x 1 Network Drivers DOS Windows 95 98 98SE Me NT 2000 XP Windows for Workgroup 3 11 Netware Server 3 x 4 x 5...

Page 4: ...If the interference disappears then when you turn the computer off and reappears then you turn the computer on something in the computer is causing interference You can try to correct the interference...

Page 5: ...duplex function then the speed will be doubled to 20Mbps 200Mbps Real hassle free installation is achieved by conforming to PCI bus Just plug in the card and all setup is done automatically No more so...

Page 6: ...n FIFO buffers to eliminate external memory Auto setups IRQ and I O address Supports early interrupt on transmit to increase performance Supports NetWare Server 3 x 4 x 5 x NetWare ODI for DOS NetWare...

Page 7: ...Assigned by system Drivers NetWare Server 3 x 4 x 5 x NetWare ODI for DOS NetWare ODI Client 32 Windows 95 98 98SE Me NT 2000 XP Linux Unix MAC Packet Driver for TCP IP software Temperature 00 C to 55...

Page 8: ...in your computer s BIOS or setup program to enable the WOL feature If the motherboard support PCI 2 2 we don t need the 3 pin WOL connector the function will be provided from the PCI bus directly ATX...

Page 9: ...h the 3 pin auxiliary power cable to the connector on the PC motherboard 4 Driver Installation Use the drivers supplied by the diskette included in this product For detail description please refer to...

Page 10: ...e network status Link Activity A LED indicates if the UTP port has been LINK ok or not When the light is OFF it indicates that the UTP port has not been connected or LINK not ok When the light is ON i...

Page 11: ...ware requirement in chapter 2 2 Verify the BIOS setting of Wake On LAN is configured properly Please check your computer owner s manual or contact your dealer for more information 3 Remove the PC cove...

Page 12: ...r informational use only is subject to change without notice and should not be construed as a commitment by Argon Technology Argon Technology assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or i...

Page 13: ...s Using a Configuration File 38 Changing Configuration Options from the Command Line 40 Updating to a Newer MBA Version 40 Restoring a Previously Backed up Version 41 Chapter 4 Using MBA Base Code 44...

Page 14: ...for Management Environment Using PXE 64 Introduction 64 Quick Setup 66 Boot Screen 66 Creating a PXE Boot Image File Using Boot Image Editor 66 Chapter 8 Using MBA in NetWare Environments 68 Introduct...

Page 15: ...irst 81 MBA Messages 82 Batch File Missing Messages and How to Avoid Them 83 Chapter 9 Using MBA in Remote Program Load Environments 84 Introduction 84 RPL Specific Features 84 Quick Setup 85 Troubles...

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Page 17: ...ed PCs that can cooperate in the management process These PCs have management ready network interface cards NICs with functions implemented in firmware software and hardware While some features are ap...

Page 18: ...ding on the server s hard disk MBA retrieves the required information for example an operating system memory managers network drivers from these files on the server when the PC starts This process has...

Page 19: ...s locally or over the network depending on the NIC ROM or BIOS version Supports multiple boot protocols and network environments such as PXE TCP IP NetWare and RPL B Bo oo ot t I Im ma ag ge e E Ed di...

Page 20: ...implemented on a server or a network administration PC For installation instructions see Boot Image Editor Installation in Chapter 2 Installing MBA 20...

Page 21: ...ded Go to Chapter 3 Configuring MBA Contained in a ROM that must be installed on the PC s NIC Install the ROM The following section describes how to install this ROM Go to Chapter 3 Configuring MBA Yo...

Page 22: ...he boot ROM socket on your NIC You may need to refer to the NIC s user guide to locate the correct ROM socket Depending on your NIC you may have either a DIP socket rectangular socket with two rows of...

Page 23: ...notch in the socket is lined up with the notch in the MBA ROM before doing anything else Align the pins on the ROM with the pin receptacles in the ROM socket Press down gently and evenly on the ROM t...

Page 24: ...r guide for information on how to set up the NIC ISA legacy non Plug and Play NICs Use either NIC configuration software or jumpers switches to enable the ROM region to the desired memory address and...

Page 25: ...he License Agreement The MBAFLASH utility asks if you agree with the License Agreement If you have not reviewed the License Agreement we recommend that you do so 5 To view the License Agreement press...

Page 26: ...set up devices such as CD ROM drives hard disks and NICs The BBS specification developed by Compaq Phoenix and Intel specifies how the system BIOS identifies boot devices in a PC allows the user to se...

Page 27: ...se the specific protocol for TCP IP boot method DHCP Default Boot Network Local Choose whether MBA will perform a network boot or a local hard disk boot by default If Network boot is chosen as the def...

Page 28: ...y before continuing or waits for 3 seconds before continuing MBA continues by following the behavior specified by the Boot Failure option Wait for Timeout Boot Failure Next Boot Device Reboot If a net...

Page 29: ...led Choose whether to display or hide the message the MBA displays indicating to the user which hot keys to press to enter the MBA Configuration Screen i e Press Ctrl Alt B to configure You may want t...

Page 30: ...Protocol 802 2 802 3 Ethernet II Choose the specific frame type for NetWare boot methods 802 3 Default Boot Network Local Choose whether MBA will perform a network boot or a local hard disk boot by d...

Page 31: ...The Forever setting only applies to the Local and Network Boot Messages If Forever is selected the other messages default to 3 seconds This setting takes affect the next time the PC is booted 3 Boot...

Page 32: ...to boot from Network TABLE 4 RPL CONFIGURATION OPTIONS Option Name Possible Values Description Default Default Boot Network Local Choose whether MBA will perform a network boot or a local hard disk bo...

Page 33: ...essages If Forever is selected the other messages default to 3 seconds This setting takes affect the next time the PC is booted 3 Boot Failure Prompt Wait for Timeout Wait for Key If a network boot ca...

Page 34: ...9 to have MBA take control of these settings This may be necessary if MBA UNDI incorrectly detects that the PC has a BBS BIOS when in fact it does not If either of these interrupts is selected on a PC...

Page 35: ...ntation of NSB If these BIOSs are compliant with the System Management BIOS SMBIOS Reference Specification v2 3 they have an indication whether they have NSB functionality implemented MBA checks for t...

Page 36: ...uration Screen You can specify the amount of time that the configuration message is displayed whether the message should not be displayed and whether access to the MBA based configuration should be di...

Page 37: ...nfiguring with the new settings I display ROM information sX if multiple NICs with MBA are in the PC select MBA number X in the list When you execute MBACFG on a PC containing more than one NIC with M...

Page 38: ...ible settings supported by MBA The CFG file named MBA CFG is NIC specific The following is an example of the format of the configuration file To select an option remove the comment symbol at the start...

Page 39: ...Boot Failure Reboot Config Menu Enabled Config Menu Disabled Config Message Enabled Config Message Disabled Message Timeout Forever Message Timeout 3 seconds Message Timeout 6 seconds Message Timeout...

Page 40: ...option on the command line change all spaces to an underscore character or enclose the option in quotes For example the default boot device could be entered as either of the following default boot ne...

Page 41: ...n select the NIC that you wish to update with MBA software The selection menu will show some technical information on each NIC such as the PCI Device and Vendor IDs the PCI Bus and Slot numbers and th...

Page 42: ...MBAFLASH utility and specify the backup ROM file that the MBAFLASH utility created 42...

Page 43: ...MBA ROM filenames used by the MBAFLASH utility are in the following format xyyyzzz ROM Where x is the protocol 7 Tri protocol 8 MBA yyy is the unique MBA type number corresponding to the PC s NIC zzz...

Page 44: ...to boot from the default boot device without waiting the full time period If the hard disk is chosen as the boot device MBA removes itself from the system memory If the network is chosen as the boot...

Page 45: ...ocess an error message is displayed However if you wish to see more status information during the boot process you can set MBA to a special verbose mode To display more status information press and ho...

Page 46: ...this method last controls the boot process for the PC and the other device is not usable This is not a problem for PCs with a BBS compatible BIOS Selecting Interrupt 19 or Interrupt 18 boot control ma...

Page 47: ...uding Initial installation of the operating system and applications to the PC hard drive including initial formatting and partitioning if required Scanning for and eradicating local hard disk viruses...

Page 48: ...his entire concept which we call Pre OS managed booting or simply Pre OS is based on existing MBA firmware capabilities extended by any desktop management agents contained in a special boot image file...

Page 49: ...and then rebooting from a hard drive From the user s point of view the sequence is as follows 11 The end user powers on or restarts the client PC 12 A Pre OS connection is created by the boot image f...

Page 50: ...you may load memory managers network drivers virus checkers backup routines software updating agents and other executables You may also map network resources and execute any of this software from the...

Page 51: ...is accessible to the guest username during the Pre OS phase On the server you must have either DHCP or BOOTP enabled and also TFTP Trivial File Transfer Protocol If you are using DHCP you must config...

Page 52: ...ndows system dat z critical systems dat c temp compare txt find i no difference encountered c temp compare txt nul if errorlevel 2 echo Error in string search Cannot report if matches found if errorle...

Page 53: ...8 network drivers netcard el90x dos transport tcpdrv dos nemm dos devdir A LoadRMDrivers yes 386enh TimerCriticalSection 5000 UniqueDosPSP TRUE PSPIncrement 2 Password Lists Shares A Shares PWL PREOS...

Page 54: ...p compare txt nul if errorlevel 2 echo Error in string search Cannot report if matches found if errorlevel 1 goto CriticalFilesDifferent if errorlevel 0 goto CriticalFilesNotDifferent CriticalFilesDif...

Page 55: ...nf fo or rm ma at ti io on n The following specification applies to the Pre OS phase only Memory requirements Available conventional memory is reduced by 3 KB and available extended memory is reduced...

Page 56: ...s BPPATCH utility to insert BOOTPTAB or DHCP fields into text and batch files Network Requirements MBA requires that a BOOTP or DHCP Service or daemon exists on the server to provide the IP address as...

Page 57: ...DHCP service provides the PC with its IP address and the name of the image file to boot The Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP service is used during the transfer of the boot file to the PC BOOTP Se...

Page 58: ...that DOS can find a copy of COMMAND COM after the image is released from memory The FREEMEM program is then executed to release all the memory used during booting and to restore drive A as a local dr...

Page 59: ...t from the network assuming the PCs are using the same type of NIC If there are PCs on your LAN using MBA that require different boot configurations e g different NICs different CONFIG SYS options you...

Page 60: ...must change your DOS COMSPEC variable to a DOS directory on the network otherwise you will get an error when DOS tries to reload COMMAND COM after FREEMEM terminates FREEMEM can not be included in th...

Page 61: ...cter It is important to make the tag large enough to contain all the characters that may be in the field If the field is smaller than the tag length the field is padded with spaces If the field is lar...

Page 62: ...see if it is getting the request from the PC The service should also have a debug mode where it displays information on the screen for each request it gets and replies to Transferring boot image file...

Page 63: ...full filename is displayed on the PC screen make sure this filename is correct and that the file does exist File transfer error Access violation This message comes from the TFTP service on the server...

Page 64: ...ecution Environment PXE 2 x as specified in the Wired for Management WfM V2 0 and Microsoft PC 98 and PC 99 guidelines PXE software allows PCs to communicate with server based workstation management a...

Page 65: ...ds a special DHCP request to the Boot Image Negotiation Layer BINL service running on the Boot Server to get the filename of the network bootstrap program The BINL Service replies with the filename Th...

Page 66: ...up p When configured for PXE MBA can be used in conjunction with the following products Remote Installation Services from Microsoft Symantec Ghost ON Command CCM from ON Technology Unicenter TNG from...

Page 67: ...online help To install Boot Image Editor see Boot Image Editor Installation in Chapter 2 Installing MBA 67...

Page 68: ...t Image Editor and other utilities for creating examining and editing boot image files on the server Network Requirements MBA supports all current versions of NetWare using NCP IPX protocol and transp...

Page 69: ...ted later in this chapter for more detailed instructions Step 1 Create a boot image file 18 Format a bootable diskette and copy to it all the files needed to make a boot diskette Alternatively you may...

Page 70: ...ive letter X Avoid explicit references to drive A anywhere within the boot diskette Using Boot Image Editor located on the MBA Utility Disk or Novell s DOSGEN EXE create a boot image file in the SYS L...

Page 71: ...ep 1 Create a boot diskette 20 Format a diskette as a DOS system diskette Copy needed files to the boot diskette Copy all required device drivers NetWare client drivers and any other files you would n...

Page 72: ...ing boot image files it is necessary to ensure that each PC booting with MBA has a licensed copy of the operating system being used for example DOS Step 2 Run Boot Image Editor 21 Create a boot image...

Page 73: ...nning on drive A FIGURE 19 COPYING BATCH FILES TO THE LOGIN DIRECTORY If you see a Batch File Missing message when your PC has booted you may also need to copy AUTOEXEC BAT into the default directory...

Page 74: ...to create additional boot image files if different operating systems are used See Supporting Different PCs with One Boot Image and Creating Additional Boot Image Files Creating Additional Boot Image...

Page 75: ...PC entries with comments over 40 characters long are found a warning is displayed BOOTEDIT has a capacity of approximately 3 000 records depending on the amount of free conventional memory For further...

Page 76: ...0x00000021 00c0f987b345 andrew sys Andrew s boot image 0x00000021 00000f456787 brody sys Brody s boot image 0x 00104b267345 jenn sys Jenn s boot image 0x 00104b sam sys Default image for Sam 0x win s...

Page 77: ...tiple NetWare Boot Image Files in the topic Working with Boot Image Files for NetWare Environments in the Boot Image Editor online help for details N NO OT TE E Be sure to modify the PC s entry in BOO...

Page 78: ...g PC entry is found MSD replies with the name of a boot image file which is specific to the PC s type of NIC except in cases where the NODEFAULT option is used You can obtain the ROMTYPE number from t...

Page 79: ...est log max 100 nodefault Loads MSD names it test creates a status log file sets a maximum of 100 workstation entries and tells MSD to use nodefault mode MSD may be unloaded from your server at any ti...

Page 80: ...ults to its normal operation and attempts to contact any available file server for its boot image When a file server is finally reached MBA attempts to open the filename specified for its PC in BOOTCO...

Page 81: ...eft off in the image disk In this guide this is called the VLM Transfer Point Understanding this transfer point is important in solving problems with missing batch files and in supporting more than on...

Page 82: ...eable Load the MONITOR NLM on the file server console to check if the file is in use by another connection Another reason could be that you ve run DOSGEN to generate your boot image file NET DOS SYS o...

Page 83: ...er is set to that expected by the ODI driver If the message appears repeatedly on an Ethernet PC it is likely that the Ethernet frame type for which the ODI driver is configured is not loaded at the s...

Page 84: ...at support the RPL boot protocol include IBM LAN Server IBM Warp Server N NO OT TE E The RPL protocol within MBA does not support the Novell NetWare RPL protocol NetWare users should use MBA for NetWa...

Page 85: ...things do not work check these situations to resolve the most likely problems Unknown Client NIC ID If an unknown client NIC ID line appears within the NT Server Remoteboot Manger console while attemp...

Page 86: ...g the Remoteboot Service Is the NT Server RPL service rejecting PC requests because the RPL service does not support the NIC you are using See Unknown Client NIC id in this section Is there a Remotebo...

Page 87: ...key when ready The message is printed when the boot block fails to load DOS from the server Check that the DOS system files are copied correctly to systemroot rpl rplfiles binfiles dosxxx Make sure th...

Page 88: ...have the following information ready Product model name part number and serial number A list of system hardware and software including revision levels Error messages Details about recent configuration...

Page 89: ...ax or within the contents of the e mail as this will not indicate embedded CRLF s 512 byte boundaries etc 3 The settings used on the ROM protocol etc 4 The settings on the server version of NetWare Se...

Page 90: ...used In addition please provide the IP address of each NIC subnet mask and services daemons running at the time of failure A list of NT services can be obtained by running the command NET START and re...

Page 91: ...up the start of the output and select copy and paste the output to a text file 4 From the same command prompt Type c configuration e enumerate 2 level of detail Let it scroll Scroll back up the start...

Page 92: ...If you purchased an Argon Flash chip Boot ROM then the Software is licensed to be installed and used by you on either a single workstation or network server owned by or leased to you provided that the...

Page 93: ...and retains all right title and interest including all copyrights patents trade secrets trademarks and other intellectual property rights whether or not patentable or registerable under copyright trad...

Page 94: ...27 7015 Nov 1995 or FAR 52 227 14 June 1987 whichever is applicable You agree not to remove or deface any portion of any legend provided on any licensed program or documentation delivered to you under...

Page 95: ...MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHA...

Page 96: ...urts of the province of Ontario without regard to conflicts of laws principles The parties exclude in its entirety the application to this License Agreement of the United Nations Convention on Contrac...

Page 97: ...ARGON and ARGON TECHNOLOGY are trademarks of Argon Technology Corporation ARGON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION 7895 Tranmere Drive Suite 201A Mississauga Ontario L5S 1V9 Canada www ArgonTechnology com 97...

Page 98: ...to achieve independence between the hardware and the software API Application Programming Interface Asset management The process of maximizing the use of assets to produce revenue while minimizing th...

Page 99: ...to describe and share management information enterprise wide It serves as the management information schema for WBEM along with other specifications to be defined CIM is designed to be extended for ea...

Page 100: ...lace or at another time IETF Internet Engineering Task Force The open industry body that owns the technical specifications for Internet standards protocols APIs etc IID An interface identifier and als...

Page 101: ...e or in non volatile storage on a system MBA is implemented as an Option ROM for a NIC PCI PM PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification POST Acronym for Power On Self Test POST processing in th...

Page 102: ...write protected after initialization Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP The most widely used protocol for communicating management information for networks SNMP focuses primarily on the network...

Page 103: ...ut sacrificing agility or performance Through the WfM Initiative Intel has worked with others in the industry including 3Com to develop guidelines for a new generation of platforms that can be central...

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