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2.

You

cannot

distinguish

between

the

alerts

that

are

sent

to

remote

alert

recipients.

All

configured

recipients

receive

each

alert

that

you

select.

Configuring

remote

alert

recipients

Notes:

1.

For

the

Remote

Supervisor

Adapter

II

SlimLine,

the

configuring

remote

alert

recipients

feature

is

available

only

when

using

LAN-based

alert

functionality.

2.

For

the

Remote

Supervisor

Adapter

II

SlimLine,

the

PPP

settings

are

not

available.

You

can

define

up

to

12

unique

remote

alert

recipients.

Each

link

for

an

alert

recipient

is

labeled

with

the

recipient

name,

notification

method,

and

alert

status.

To

configure

a

remote

alert

recipient,

complete

the

following

steps:

1.

Log

in

to

the

Remote

Supervisor

Adapter

II

for

which

you

want

to

configure

remote

alert

settings.

For

more

information,

see

Chapter

2,

“Opening

and

using

the

Web

interface,”

on

page

5.

2.

In

the

navigation

pane,

click

Alerts

.

The

Remote

Alert

Recipients

page

is

displayed.

You

can

see

the

notification

method

and

alert

status

for

each

recipient,

if

they

are

set.

3.

Click

one

of

the

remote

alert

recipient

links.

An

individual

recipient

window

similar

to

the

one

in

the

following

illustration

opens.

Chapter

3.

Configuring

the

Remote

Supervisor

Adapter

II

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Summary of Contents for Remote Supervisor Adapter II

Page 1: ...Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

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Page 3: ...Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 4: ...information in Appendix B Notices on page 115 Seventh Edition April 2007 Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2003 2007 All rights reserved US Government Users Restricted Rights Use...

Page 5: ...on 33 Serial to serial redirection 34 Serial to Telnet redirection 35 Configuring the command line interface settings 36 Configuring port assignments 38 Configuring network interfaces 39 Configuring a...

Page 6: ...rial redirection quick setup 86 Updating firmware 88 Accessing remote adapters through an ASM interconnect network 89 Chapter 6 Command line interface 91 Accessing the command line 91 Logging in to th...

Page 7: ...p command 110 update command 110 Appendix A Getting help and technical assistance 113 Before you call 113 Using the documentation 113 Getting help and information from the World Wide Web 114 Software...

Page 8: ...vi Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 9: ...hanges are made periodically to the IBM Web site Procedures for locating firmware and documentation might vary slightly from what is described in this document 1 Go to http www ibm com systems support...

Page 10: ...apture v Remote access through Ethernet and ASM interconnect peer to peer network v Remote disk enabling the attachment of a diskette drive CD ROM drive USB flash drive or disk image to a server v Rem...

Page 11: ...lowing server operating systems have USB support which is required for the Remote Control feature v Microsoft Windows Server 2003 v Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 or later v Red Hat Linux...

Page 12: ...4 Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 13: ...r II defaults to DHCP If a DHCP host is unavailable the Remote Supervisor Adapter II uses the default static IP address 192 168 70 125 b You can obtain the DHCP assigned IP address or the static IP ad...

Page 14: ...ield that is provided If your browser is inactive for that number of minutes the Remote Supervisor Adapter II logs you off the Remote Supervisor Adapter II Web interface Note Depending on how your sys...

Page 15: ...alth summary For descriptions of the actions that you can perform from the links in the left navigation pane of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II Web interface see Remote Supervisor Adapter II action d...

Page 16: ...are captured and displayed to show server hardware availability Remote Control Redirect the server video console and use your computer disk drive or disk image as a drive on the server From the Remote...

Page 17: ...events On the Alerts page you can configure the alerts that are monitored and the recipients that are notified Configure local events You can set the local events that are monitored by the Remote Sup...

Page 18: ...n reset the configuration of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II to the factory defaults Restart ASM Restart the Remote Supervisor Adapter II You can restart the Remote Supervisor Adapter II Log off Log...

Page 19: ...gin attempts Configure the account security level v From the Alerts page you can Set integrated system management processor ISMP alert forwarding Configure remote alert recipients Set the number of re...

Page 20: ...to the one in the following illustration is displayed Note The available fields in the System Settings page are determined by the accessed remote server 3 In the Name field in the ASM Information are...

Page 21: ...pe of operating system that is running on the server Important For the Remote Supervisor Adapter II to function correctly the specified operating system must match the operating system of the server i...

Page 22: ...in this field are ignored For more information about POST routines see the documentation that comes with your server O S watchdog Use the O S watchdog field to specify the number of minutes between c...

Page 23: ...m is installed on your server you have to install only the Remote Supervisor Adapter II software to support remote operating system shutdown Note If the value in the Power off delay field is less than...

Page 24: ...5 2 In the navigation pane click System Settings and scroll down to the ASM Date and Time area which shows the date and time when the Web page was generated 3 To override the date and time settings a...

Page 25: ...set up the Remote Supervisor Adapter II NTP feature settings complete the following steps 1 Log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II on which you want to synchronize the clocks in the network For m...

Page 26: ...u cannot perform an in band update of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II firmware using the Linux or Windows flash utilities If the USB device driver interface is disabled use the Firmware Update option...

Page 27: ...gin profile during the initial setup of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II 3 Click one of the unused login profile links An individual profile page similar to the one in the following illustration is di...

Page 28: ...ess A user can access the power on and restart functions for the remote server These functions are available in the Power Restart page v Ability to Clear Event Logs A user can clear the event logs Eve...

Page 29: ...n method v Local first then LDAP Local authentication is attempted first If local authentication fails LDAP authentication is attempted v LDAP first then Local LDAP authentication is attempted first I...

Page 30: ...u can configure remote alert recipients the number of alert attempts incidents that trigger remote alerts and local alerts from the Alerts link on the navigation pane After you configure a remote aler...

Page 31: ...alert recipient is labeled with the recipient name notification method and alert status To configure a remote alert recipient complete the following steps 1 Log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II...

Page 32: ...phone number IP address or host name at which to contact the recipient Type a phone number if you are using one of the following notification methods v Numeric pager follow the phone number with a com...

Page 33: ...rding page you click Make this ASM the Gateway v The Remote Supervisor Adapters and Remote Supervisor Adapter IIs on the network negotiate and designate the adapter to be the gateway This occurs if yo...

Page 34: ...e alert attempts Note For the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine the configuring remote alert attempts feature is available only when using LAN based alert functionality The remote alert attempts s...

Page 35: ...ached in an e mail are not forwarded to a Remote Supervisor Adapter or Remote Supervisor Adapter II on the ASM interconnect network 4 Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save Setting remote ale...

Page 36: ...alert if one or more of the hard disk drives in the server fail 06 56 VRM failure Generates an alert if one or more voltage regulator modules VRMs fail This setting is ignored for servers without VRMs...

Page 37: ...ff 24 74 Power on Generates an alert if the server is turned on 25 75 Boot failure Generates an alert if an error occurs that prevents the server from starting 26 76 Loader timeout Generates an alert...

Page 38: ...wer supply failure Generates a local notification if the redundant power supply fails Tampering v Generates a local notification if the server cover is removed This feature is available only on some s...

Page 39: ...2 4 In the Baud rate field select the data transfer rate Use the Baud rate field to specify the data transfer rate of your serial port connection To set the baud rate select the data transfer rate in...

Page 40: ...l postfix string Type the initialization string that is used after the number is dialed to tell the modem to stop dialing The default is M Modem query Type the initialization string that is used to fi...

Page 41: ...LAPM link access protocol for modems MNP microcom networking protocol RTS ready to send Configuring the dual serial connectors for serial redirection Note This feature is not available for the Remote...

Page 42: ...h the local logon profiles or through an LDAP server For serial redirection quick setup information see Serial redirection quick setup on page 86 To set up the software configuration for serial to ser...

Page 43: ...II as a serial terminal server Either one or both serial ports can be accessed from a Telnet connection when serial redirection is enabled For serial redirection quick setup information see Serial re...

Page 44: ...ote Supervisor Adapter II on which you want to configure the serial port For more information see Chapter 2 Opening and using the Web interface on page 5 2 In the navigation pane click Serial Port 3 S...

Page 45: ...r II Telnet sessions always require the user to authenticate Select from the following values v Enabled A user name password prompt is presented Authentication is required to get access to the command...

Page 46: ...3 Use the following information to assign values for the fields HTTP This is the port number for the HTTP server of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II The default port number is 80 Other valid values ar...

Page 47: ...on card 427 SLP 7070 through 7073 for xSeries 445 Type 8870 only Partition management 7070 through 7077 for xSeries 460 Type 8872 only Partition management 4 Click Save Configuring network interfaces...

Page 48: ...will request the DHCP server to assign a unique host name to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II If you enabled DHCP go to step 12 on page 42 If you have not enabled DHCP continue with step 5 5 Type the...

Page 49: ...ttings The following table describes the functions on the Advanced Ethernet page Table 9 Advanced Ethernet setup Field Function Data rate Use the Data Rate field to specify the amount of data that is...

Page 50: ...ly assigns the host name IP address gateway address subnet mask domain name DHCP server IP address and up to three DNS server IP addresses 14 If DHCP is enabled to view the DHCP server assigned settin...

Page 51: ...protection PAP authentication protocol is necessary if a plain text password must be available to simulate a login at a remote host v The CHAP Only setting uses a three way handshake procedure to val...

Page 52: ...information on page 12 3 Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save 4 In the navigation pane click Network Protocols A page similar to the one in the following illustration is displayed 5 Select...

Page 53: ...y manager 10 If a DNS server is not available on your network scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save Otherwise scroll to the Domain Name System DNS area A page similar to the one in the follo...

Page 54: ...also assign authority levels according to information that is found on the LDAP server You can also use LDAP to assign users and Remote Supervisor Adapter IIs to groups and perform group authenticati...

Page 55: ...selected There are three options Extract search domain from login id The LDAP client uses the domain name in the login ID For example if the login ID is joesmith mycompany com the domain name is mycom...

Page 56: ...de to match at least one group in the list to a group to which the user belongs If there is no match the user fails authentication and is denied access If there is at least one match group authenticat...

Page 57: ...the password that was entered during the login process If this fails the user is denied access The second bind is performed only when the Anonymous or Configured Credentials binding methods are used...

Page 58: ...to groups whose objectClass equals PosixGroup In that context this parameter specifies the attribute name that is used to identify the members of a particular PosixGroup This is usually memberUid If...

Page 59: ...ty Network Protocols Network Interface Port Assignments and Serial Port pages v User Account Management bit position 4 If this bit is set the user can add modify and delete users and change the Global...

Page 60: ...rotocol is used by IBM Director for out of band communication with the Remote Supervisor Adapter II To set up TCP command mode complete the following steps 1 In the navigation pane click Network proto...

Page 61: ...pter II to use SSL support for two types of connections secure Web server HTTPS and secure LDAP connection LDAPS The Remote Supervisor Adapter II takes on the role of SSL client or SSL server dependin...

Page 62: ...e Restarting ASM on page 66 Note Changes to the SSL client configuration take effect immediately and do not require a restart of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SSL certificate overview You can use S...

Page 63: ...t be imported if more than one LDAP server is used in your configuration SSL server certificate management The SSL server requires that a valid certificate and corresponding private encryption key be...

Page 64: ...yption keys and certificate are generated This process might take several minutes A page similar to the one in the following illustration is displayed and you can see that a self signed certificate is...

Page 65: ...rs City or Locality Use this field to indicate the city or locality where the Remote Supervisor Adapter II is physically located This field can contain a maximum of 50 characters Organization Name Use...

Page 66: ...signing request Organizational Unit Use this field to indicate the unit within the company or organization that owns the Remote Supervisor Adapter II This field can contain a maximum of 60 characters...

Page 67: ...EM format using OpenSSL is similar to the following example openssl req in csr der inform DER out csr pem outform PEM 7 Send the certificate signing request to your certificate authority When the cert...

Page 68: ...ion for Web Server area select Enabled in the SSL Client field and then click Save The selected value takes effect the next time the Remote Supervisor Adapter II is restarted SSL client certificate ma...

Page 69: ...lect Disabled in the SSL Client field and then click Save 3 Scroll to the SSL Client Trusted Certificate Management area A page similar to the one in the following illustration is displayed 4 Click Im...

Page 70: ...g illustration is displayed The Security page shows an installed SSL client certificate and Trusted CA Certificate 1 2 On the SSL Client Configuration for LDAP Client page select Enabled in the SSL Cl...

Page 71: ...g steps 1 In the navigation pane click Security 2 Scroll to the Secure Shell SSH Server area and make sure that the Secure Shell server is disabled If it is not disabled select Disabled in the SSH Ser...

Page 72: ...uration File in the navigation pane to back up and restore the ASM configuration Important Security page settings are not saved with the backup operation and cannot be restored with the restore operat...

Page 73: ...tion area click Browse 4 Click the configuration file that you want then click Open The file including the full path appears in the box beside Browse 5 If you do not want to make changes to the config...

Page 74: ...of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II If this is a local system your TCP IP connection will be broken and you must reconfigure the network interface to restore connectivity 3 Log in again to use the Re...

Page 75: ...he confirmation window The current browser window closes to maintain security You must manually close other open browser windows if any to prevent a cached version of your user ID and password from re...

Page 76: ...68 Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 77: ...can view the vital product data of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II the server in which it is installed and the ISMP Viewing system health On the System Health Summary page you can monitor the temper...

Page 78: ...urns to any value below the warning reset value the server assumes that the temperature has returned to normal and no further alerts are generated Warning When the temperature reaches a specified valu...

Page 79: ...the Voltages area The Remote Supervisor Adapter II will send an alert if any monitored power source voltage falls outside its specified operational ranges If you click a voltage reading a window simi...

Page 80: ...ceeded any of the three thresholds and then dropped below this value any active events are cleared 5 Scroll down to the Fan Speeds area The Remote Supervisor Adapter II Web interface displays the runn...

Page 81: ...he login ID and access method of each user logged in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II 8 Scroll down to the System Locator LED area The Remote Supervisor Adapter II Web interface displays the status...

Page 82: ...events are given the following levels of severity Informational This severity level is assigned to an event of which you should take note Warning This severity level is assigned to an event that could...

Page 83: ...VPD and component activity log provide information only when the server is turned on Table 11 Machine level vital product data Field Function Machine type Identifies the type of server that the Remot...

Page 84: ...basic input output system BIOS firmware code VPD for the remote managed server in this area Table 14 POST BIOS vital product data Field Function Version Indicates the version number of the POST BIOS c...

Page 85: ...d the startup ROM firmware Revision Identifies the revision numbers of the application firmware and the startup ROM firmware Integrated system management processor VPD You can view the vital product d...

Page 86: ...78 Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 87: ...r Adapter IIs and Remote Supervisor Adapters Note Some features are available only on servers running a supported Microsoft Windows operating system Server power and restart activity The Server Power...

Page 88: ...ue to 45 seconds when it is loaded You can decrease the power off delay value after the server has started but the Remote Supervisor Adapter II software will reset it to 45 seconds on the next server...

Page 89: ...ily or weekly time click Schedule Daily Weekly Power and Restart Actions A confirmation message is displayed if you select any of these options and you can cancel the operation if it was selected acci...

Page 90: ...ote Control page If you want exclusive remote access during your session click Start Remote Control in Single User Mode If you want to allow other users remote console KVM access during your session c...

Page 91: ...dow similar to the one in the following illustration opens 3 Follow the instructions on the Key Button page and the other pages 4 Click Save Buttons Remote disk From the Remote Control window you can...

Page 92: ...ols in the Remote Disk area at the top of the window The Remote Control window also contains the server console in the Remote Console area see Remote console on page 82 4 To mount hard disk drives or...

Page 93: ...following guidelines v As of the date of this document USB flash drives are supported only on clients running Microsoft Windows v A USB flash drive is shown as a removable drive in the remote control...

Page 94: ...the navigation pane click PXE Network Boot A page similar to the one in the following illustration is displayed 3 Select the Attempt PXE network boot at next server restart check box 4 Click Save Ser...

Page 95: ...vided over Telnet with the additional capability to remotely manage the system by using the Remote Supervisor Adapter II command line interface CLI The server serial port is connected to COM2 and you...

Page 96: ...more information see Chapter 2 Opening and using the Web interface on page 5 3 In the navigation pane click Firmware Update 4 Click Browse 5 Navigate to the PKT or PKC file that you want to update Not...

Page 97: ...rvisor Adapter II Log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II first and then log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter to obtain full Remote Supervisor Adapter II functionality To access a Remote Supervi...

Page 98: ...rough the ASM interconnect network no LAN connection The service processor of the remote system has one of the following conditions v It has not been manually configured with an IP address v It failed...

Page 99: ...name prompt type the user ID that you use to log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II Web interface 3 At the password prompt type the password that you use to log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter...

Page 100: ...i 192 168 70 125 g 0 0 0 0 s 255 255 255 0 n ASMA00096B9E003A r auto d auto m 1500 b 00 09 6B 9E 00 3A l 00 00 00 00 00 00 x345RSA v In the command line interface the output buffer limit is 2 KB Ther...

Page 101: ...off and end the command line interface session help command Description Use the help command to display a list of all commands with a short description for each You can also type at the command prompt...

Page 102: ...ive entries in the event log starting with the most recent on its first execution and then the next five for each subsequent call readlog f resets the counter and displays the first 5 entries in the e...

Page 103: ...emperatures and temperature thresholds The same set of temperatures are displayed as in the Web interface Example x345RSA temps Temperatures are displayed in degrees Fahrenheit Celsius WR W T SS HS CP...

Page 104: ...smp vpd exp Description Use the vpd command to display vital product data for the system sys Remote Supervisor Adapter II asm Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine asm system BIOS bios ISMP ismp and P...

Page 105: ...m before the server is turned off Note The Remote Supervisor Adapter II software must be installed and running for the s option to function correctly reset command Syntax reset option option s Descrip...

Page 106: ...assigned IP configuration for eth0 if the interface is configured automatically by a DHCP server You can use the ifconfig command to enable or disable DHCP Example x345RSA dhcpinfo eth0 server 192 16...

Page 107: ...d to configure the Ethernet interface Type ifconfig eth0 to display the current Ethernet interface configuration To change the Ethernet interface configuration type the options followed by the values...

Page 108: ...of the ASM x345RSA Note The b option in the ifconfig display is for the burned in MAC address The burned in MAC address is read only and is not configurable ldap command Syntax ldap options options a...

Page 109: ...characters for confirm_pw Command usage is ldap p client_pw pc confirm_pw This option is required when changing the client password It compares the confirm_pw argument with the client_pw argument and...

Page 110: ...dapter II clock is synchronized with the Network Time Protocol server 1 to 65535 synch Requests an immediate synchronization with the Network Time Protocol server No values are used with this paramete...

Page 111: ...ax portcfg com1 options portcfg com2 options options serred serial_redirect_mode b baud_rate p parity s stop_bits climode cli_mode cliauth cli_auth Description Use the portcfg command to configure the...

Page 112: ...345RSA slp command Syntax slp options options t i Description Use the slp command to display and configure the Service Location Protocol SLP parameters Option Description t SLP address type multicast...

Page 113: ...this sequence It denotes Ctrl for keystrokes that map to Ctrl sequences for example for the escape key and M for carriage return All occurrences of are interpreted as part of a Ctrl sequence Refer to...

Page 114: ...installed Private Key stored CSR available for download SSL client LDAP key status This status display is read only and cannot be set directly Possible command line output values are as follows as fo...

Page 115: ...display the timeouts type timeouts To change timeout values type the options followed by the values To change timeout values you must have at least Adapter Configuration authority The following table...

Page 116: ...cter v The authority level can be one of the following levels super supervisor ro read only Any combination of the following values separated by am User account management access rca Remote console ac...

Page 117: ...he Remote Supervisor Adapter II configuration to its factory defaults You must have at least Advanced Adapter Configuration authority to issue this command After the configuration of the Remote Superv...

Page 118: ...st Advanced Adapter Configuration authority to be able to issue this command update command Syntax update i TFTP_server_IP_address l filename Description Use the update command to update the firmware...

Page 119: ...t complete 100 Flash operation phase starting Flashing packet percent complete 34 Flashing packet percent complete 38 Flashing packet percent complete 50 Flashing packet percent complete 55 Flashing p...

Page 120: ...112 Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 121: ...rs or to submit a request for information You can solve many problems without outside assistance by following the troubleshooting procedures that IBM provides in the online help or in the documentatio...

Page 122: ...ted by Support Line in your country or region see http www ibm com services sl products For more information about Support Line and other IBM services see http www ibm com services or see http www ibm...

Page 123: ...UT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON INFRINGEMENT MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Some states do not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties in certain transac...

Page 124: ...s of Red Hat Inc in the United States and other countries Other company product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others Important notes Processor speed indicates the internal clo...

Page 125: ...a particular purpose These products are offered and warranted solely by third parties IBM makes no representations or warranties with respect to non IBM products Support if any for the non IBM product...

Page 126: ...118 Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

Page 127: ...ent level vital product data viewing 75 configuration commands 98 configuration file using 64 configuring DNS 45 dual serial port 33 configuring continued Ethernet connection 39 LDAP 46 LDAP client au...

Page 128: ...t 116 notices 115 notices and statements 3 O online publications 1 operating system OS watchdog server timeout 14 operating system requirements 3 P pager codes critical alerts 27 system alerts 29 warn...

Page 129: ...client 46 setting up Service Location Protocol 52 setting up TCP Command Mode Protocol 52 settings command line interface 36 configuring global login 20 Secure Sockets Layer SSL 53 SlimLine Remote Sup...

Page 130: ...web site continued support line telephone numbers 114 122 Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine and Remote Supervisor Adapter II User s Guide...

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