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Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Remote Supervisor Adapter features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Web browser requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices used in this book
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Chapter 2. Opening and using the ASM Web interface . . . . . . . . . 3
Logging in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Logging in to the ASM processor in an xSeries 330 server . . . . . . . . . 6
Remote Supervisor Adapter and ASM processor action descriptions . . . . . . 7
Remote Supervisor Adapter action descriptions in xSeries 330 servers . . . . . 9
Chapter 3. Configuring your Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor 13
Setting system information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Setting server timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Creating a login profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Setting the global login settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Configuring remote alert settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Configuring remote alert recipients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Forwarding alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Setting remote alert attempts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Setting remote alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting local events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Configuring the serial port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Initialization-string guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring network interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring an Ethernet connection to the Remote Supervisor Adapter . . . 34
Configuring PPP access over a serial port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring network protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuring SMTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring remote control keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Backing up your current configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Restoring and modifying your ASM configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Restoring ASM defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Restarting ASM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Logging off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chapter 4. Monitoring remote server status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viewing system health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viewing the event log
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Viewing vital product data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 5. Performing Remote Supervisor Adapter tasks . . . . . . . . 55
Server power and restart activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Remotely controlling the power status of a server . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Remote boot (start) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Accessing the server graphical console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Viewing the server POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Viewing the server blue screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Updating firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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