IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II, Installation Manual

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Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Installation prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Remote Supervisor Adapter II features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The IBM Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the IBM Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Notices and statements used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Unpacking and verifying components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Inventory checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Remote Supervisor Adapter II components . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Installing and cabling the Remote Supervisor Adapter II 11
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing the adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Connecting the 20-pin ribbon cable to the system board or riser card . . . 13
Connecting the 20-pin ribbon cable to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II 14
Cabling the Ethernet LAN connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting the external power-supply adapter . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting the ASM breakout cable with one serial connector . . . . . 19
Connecting the ASM breakout cable with dual serial connectors . . . . . 20
Serial-to-serial redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Serial-to-Telnet redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Obtaining Remote Supervisor Adapter II software and firmware . . . . 22
For Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 . . . . . . 22
For SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 3. Using the ASM interconnect network . . . . . . . . . 27
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Planning and cabling your ASM interconnect network . . . . . . . . 27
Using the RS-485 terminator plugs on interconnected servers . . . . . . 29
Considerations when configuring xSeries 232 and xSeries 342 servers . . . 29
Forwarding alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
ASM interconnect network configuration examples . . . . . . . . . 31
Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . 35
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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