IBM eServer BladeCenter 8677, Installation And User Manual

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Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Rear system LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Blower module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ethernet switch module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Power module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Management module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4. Configuring your BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting up the remote connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Cabling the Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring the management module for remote access. . . . . . . . . 41
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring Wake on LAN in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Verifying your Wake on LAN configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Linux specific configuration
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Using the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Starting the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . 44
Management and configuration program options
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Saving and restoring the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using IBM Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
About the Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Starting the wizard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 3.1.01 . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring the Ethernet switch module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
What to configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Supporting Ethernet failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring the Ethernet controllers in the blade servers
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BladeCenter networking guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 5. Sharing resources among the blade servers . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 6. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Troubleshooting charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Light Path Diagnostics feature overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Identifying problems using the Light Path Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . 64
Light Path Diagnostics table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 67
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . 67
Software service and support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Appendix B. Warranty information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Warranty period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Problem determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Running diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Checking software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Warranty service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
International Warranty Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Purchasing additional services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
IBM Statement of Limited Warranty Z125-4753-06 8/2000 . . . . . . . . . 72
Part 1 - General Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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