IBM 8677 - BladeCenter Rack-mountable - Power..., Installation And User Manual

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Rear system LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Blower module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
I/O module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Power module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Management module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4. Configuring your BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting up the remote connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Cabling the Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring the management module for remote access. . . . . . . . . 39
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Configuring Wake on LAN in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Verifying your Wake on LAN configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Linux-specific configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Starting the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . 42
Management and configuration program options
. . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring the external Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring the internal Ethernet port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring the management port on I/O modules . . . . . . . . . . 44
Saving and restoring the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
About the wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Starting the wizard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 4.1 or later . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring a switch module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
What to configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Supporting Ethernet failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring the Ethernet controllers in the blade servers
. . . . . . . . 48
BladeCenter networking guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 5. Sharing resources among the blade servers . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 6. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Troubleshooting charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Monitor problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Power problems
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Management module problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Blower module problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Options problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Light path diagnostics feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Identifying problems using the light path diagnostics feature . . . . . . . 56
Light path diagnostics LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 59
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . 59
Software service and support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Appendix B. IBM Statement of Limited Warranty Z125-4753-07 11/2002 . . 61
Part 1 - General Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Part 2 - Country-unique Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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