Contents
About this manual
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Important safety information
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Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
General checkout
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General information
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Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Server features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Operator information panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Powering on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Powering off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Diagnostics
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Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Identifying problems using LEDs
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Power supply LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Light path diagnostics
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Diagnostics panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Light path diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
POST error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Log viewing from Configuration/Setup
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Log viewing from diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SCSI messages (some models). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Starting the diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Viewing the test log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Diagnostic error message tables
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Recovering BIOS code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Troubleshooting the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Network connection problems
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Ethernet controller troubleshooting chart
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Power checkout
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Replacing the battery
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Configuration
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Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
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Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Main menu of the Configuration/Setup Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Additional Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices
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Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting the password override switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the SCSISelect utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Starting the SCSISelect utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Choices available from the SCSISelect menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the PXE boot agent utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Starting the PXE boot agent utility program
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Choices available from the PXE boot agent menu . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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