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x NovaScale 4020 User’s Guide
3 Configuration Software and Utilities .......................................................... 29
Utilities / Drivers on Resource CD......................................................................................... 29
Running Software Utilities Directly from the Resource CD .......................................... 29
Power-on Sequence and Power-on Self-Test (POST).......................................................... 29
Extensible Firmware Interface Boot Manager ....................................................................... 30
The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Shell ..................................................................... 34
BIOS Setup ........................................................................................................................... 36
Starting Setup .............................................................................................................. 36
Recording Your Setup Settings .................................................................................... 36
Navigating Setup Utility Screens .................................................................................. 37
Setup Screens.............................................................................................................. 38
Main ..................................................................................................... 38
Advanced ..................................................................................................... 39
Security
..................................................................................................... 39
System Management..................................................................................... 40
Exit
..................................................................................................... 41
LSI Logic* SCSI Utility........................................................................................................... 42
Launching the LSI SCSI Utility ..................................................................................... 42
Creating a RAID1 (Mirror) on the internal disks ........................................................... 42
Activation ..................................................................................................... 42
Installation of the Operating System.............................................................. 43
Behavior
..................................................................................................... 43
System Maintenance Utility................................................................................................... 44
Remote Keyboard Navigation ...................................................................................... 45
Local Keyboard Navigation .......................................................................................... 45
About Box Information.................................................................................................. 47
Server Discovery .......................................................................................................... 48
Remote SMU Application ............................................................................................. 48
Local SMU Application ................................................................................................. 51
Running from CD........................................................................................... 51
Running from the System Partition................................................................ 51
Shutdown SMU Application.......................................................................................... 52
Server Management Configuration Task...................................................................... 52
LAN Channel Configuration Sub-task............................................................ 53
User Configuration Sub-task ......................................................................... 60
Platform Event Filtering (PEF) Sub-task........................................................ 63
Serial/Modem Channel Configuration Sub-task ............................................ 70
Power Configuration Sub-task....................................................................... 81
SEL Viewer................................................................................................................... 82
Viewing Events in the SEL ............................................................................ 83
Sorting the SEL ............................................................................................. 85
SDR Viewer.................................................................................................................. 87
Viewing SDRs................................................................................................ 88
FRU Viewer .................................................................................................................. 90
Viewing FRUs................................................................................................ 91
Task Error Handling ..................................................................................................... 92
Data Entry Errors........................................................................................... 92
Internal Errors For Which a View Can Be Generated.................................... 92
Data Corruption Errors that the SMU Application can Handle....................... 93
Internal Errors For Which a View Cannot Be Generated............................... 93
Help ....................................................................................................................... 94
Help for the Remote SMU Application........................................................... 94
Help for the Local SMU Application............................................................... 95