Using the SMS utility
Use the System Management Services (SMS) utility to perform a variety of configuration tasks on the
PS700 blade server.
Starting the SMS utility
Start the SMS utility to configure the blade server.
1.
Turn on or restart the blade server, and establish an SOL session with it.
See the
BladeCenter Management Module Command-Line Interface Reference Guide
or the
BladeCenter
Serial-Over-LAN Setup Guide
for more information.
2.
When the POST menu and indicators are displayed, press the 1 key after the word
Keyboard
is
displayed and before the word
Speaker
is displayed.
3.
Follow the instructions on the screen.
SMS utility menu choices
Select SMS tasks from the SMS utility main menu. Choices on the SMS utility main menu depend on the
version of the firmware in the blade server. Some menu choices might differ slightly from these
descriptions.
v
Select Language
Select this choice to change the language that is used to display the SMS menus.
v
Setup Remote IPL (Initial Program Load)
Select this choice to enable and set up the remote startup capability of the blade server or partition.
v
Change SCSD Settings
Select this choice to view and change the addresses of the self configuring SCSI device (SCSD)
controllers that are attached to the blade server.
v
Select Console
Select this choice to select the console on which the SMS menus are displayed.
v
Select Boot Options
Select this choice to view and set various options regarding the installation devices and boot devices.
Note:
If a device that you are trying to select (such as a USB CD drive in the BladeCenter media tray)
is not displayed in the
Select Device Type
menu, select
List all Devices
and select the device from that
menu.
Creating a CE login
If the blade server is running an AIX operating system, you can create a customer engineer (CE) login to
perform operating system commands that are required to service the system without being logged in as a
root user.
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