IBM eServer xSeries 135, User Reference Manual

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Chapter 3. Configuring your server
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The following choices available from the main menu:
• System Summary
Select this choice to display configuration information. This includes the type
and speed of the microprocessors and the amount of memory that is installed.
Changes that you make to configuration settings appear on this summary
screen. You cannot edit the fields.
This choice appears on both the full and limited Configuration/Setup Utility
program menus.
• System Information
Select this choice to display information about your server. Changes that you
make on other menus might appear on this summary screen. You cannot edit
any fields. The System Information choice appears only on the full
Configuration/Setup Utility program main menu.
— Product Data
Select this choice to view system information, such as the machine type and
model, the server serial number, and the revision level or issue date of the
BIOS stored in the flash electronically erasable programmable ROM
(EEPROM).
— System Card Data
Select this choice to view vital product data (VPD) for some server
components.
• Devices and I/O Ports
Select this choice to view or change the assignments for devices and
input/output ports. This choice appears only on the full Configuration/Setup
Utility program main menu.
You can use this choice to enable or disable the integrated SCSI and Ethernet
controllers.
— The default setting is Enable for all the controllers. If you select Disable, the
system will not configure the disabled device and the operating system will
not detect the device. (This is equivalent to unplugging the device.)
— If the on-board SCSI controller is disabled and no other storage-device
controller is installed, operating system startup cannot occur.
• Date and Time
Select this choice to set the system date and time when the server is started. This
choice appears only on the full Configuration/Setup Utility program main
menu.
The system time is in a 24-hour format: hour:minute:second.
• System Security
Select this choice to set passwords or a system owner’s name. This choice
appears only on the full Configuration/Setup Utility program main menu.
You can implement two levels of password protection:
— Power-on Password
Select this choice to set or change a power-on password. See “Using
passwords” on page 15 for more information.
— Administrator Password
Select this choice to set or change an administrator password.
Attention: If an administrator password is set and then forgotten, it cannot
be overridden or removed. You must replace the system board.