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Installing the IPSSEND command-line program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Starting the IPSSEND command-line program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Using the IPSSEND command-line program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 9. Using the IPSMON command-line program (NetWare only) . . . 91
Installing the IPSMON command-line program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using the IPSMON command-line program
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Chapter 10. Installing and starting the ServeRAID Manager program . . . 93
Installing the ServeRAID Manager program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Starting the ServeRAID Manager program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Part 3. Installing the IBM ServeRAID Cluster Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Chapter 11. Introduction to the IBM ServeRAID Cluster Solution . . . . . 103
Chapter 12. Preparing to install or change a cluster solution . . . . . . 107
Terms and definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
ServeRAID considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Chapter 13. Configuring ServeRAID controllers for clustering . . . . . . 111
Configuring the controller for Microsoft Cluster Server using Windows 2000 or
Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configuring a controller for clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Configuring ServeRAID arrays and a logical drive. . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 14. Installing the Microsoft Cluster Server software . . . . . . 119
Installing the Microsoft Cluster Server software on Windows NT 4.0 . . . . . 119
Installing the Microsoft Cluster Server software on Windows 2000
. . . . . 126
Chapter 15. Monitoring and updating an IBM ServeRAID Cluster Solution 135
Checking the ownership of a physical drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Adding logical drives to a cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Validating a cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Viewing merge-group numbers and other cluster information
. . . . . . . 138
Part 4. Maintenance and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Chapter 16. Obtaining ServeRAID updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Downloadable files from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Updating the ServeRAID BIOS, firmware, and software code for clustering
141
Chapter 17. Upgrading a ServeRAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Updating device drivers, BIOS and firmware code, and utility programs. . . . 143
Replacing the old controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 18. Solving ServeRAID problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
IBM ServeRAID Support CD warning message while starting . . . . . . . 145
ServeRAID controller messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
ServeRAID startup (POST) messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Recovering from problems starting the ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . 155
Recovering from an incomplete format of a physical drive. . . . . . . . . 156
Rebuilding a defunct drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Recovering from multiple physical drive failures (Windows only) . . . . . . 159
Locating the startup device (SCO OpenServer only) . . . . . . . . . . . 164
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