IBM 866011U - Netfinity 5500 - 8660, Hardware Maintenance Manual

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Changing RAID levels . . . . . . . . . . 39
Adding a physical drive . . . . . . . . . 40
Physical device administration . . . . . . . . 42
Setting Physical device states . . . . . . 42
Rebuilding drives . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ServeRAID controller administration . . . . . 45
Copying the drive configuration to the
ServeRAID controller . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copying the ServeRAID controller
configuration to the drives . . . . . . . 45
Initializing the ServeRAID II controller . . . 46
Scanning for new drives . . . . . . . . . 46
Using the ServeRAID monitoring functions . . 48
Monitoring status information . . . . . . . 48
Monitoring event logs . . . . . . . . . . 50
Device event log . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Hard event log . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Soft event log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Monitoring the logical drive information . . . . 52
Monitoring the physical device information . . 53
Configuring the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . 55
Configuring options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 60
Configuring ISA and PCI adapters . . . . . . . 61
Failover for redundant Ethernet . . . . . . . . . 62
Special considerations when combining failover
and hot-plug functions . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Configuring for failover . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
IntraNetware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Netfinity System Management Processor . . . . 65
System requirements for the Advanced System
Management Service with Netfinity Manager 66
Accessing the System Management Processor
without Netfinity Manager . . . . . . . . . 66
System Power menu selections . . . . . 68
Boot menu selections . . . . . . . . . . 69
Using remote video mode to monitor and
access POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Resolving configuration conflicts . . . . . . . . 73
Changing the software configuration setup . . 73
Changing the hardware configuration setup . 73
ServeRAID Configuration program . . . . . . . 74
Software installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Starting the ServeRAID Configuration program . 77
During the initial startup of the server . . . . 77
After an operating system is installed . . . . 77
Using diskettes to start the ServeRAID
Configuration program . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Status LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Power supply LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Understanding disk array technology . . . . . . 81
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