IBM 8671 - Eserver xSeries 235, Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

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Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Server controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Operator information panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Standby mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IBM documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Starting the IBM Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the IBM Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the search feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing IBM Director updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Update Xpress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 2. Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Choices available from the Configuration/Setup main menu . . . . . . . 16
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Starting the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . 21
Formatting a SCSI hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
System Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setting up or updating multiple servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing your operating system without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
High-performance Ethernet modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Ethernet port connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Updating the integrated system management firmware . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
POST error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Viewing error logs from the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . 32
Viewing error logs from the diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . 32
ServerGuide error symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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