Contents
Chapter 1: Maintenance Overview | 5 |
Chapter contents | 5 |
Overview | 5 |
Related resources | 6 |
Linux operating system manuals | 8 |
Chapter 2: Hardware Upgrade and Maintenance | 9 |
In this chapter | 9 |
Installation guidelines | 9 |
System reliability guidelines | 10 |
Handling static sensitive devices | 10 |
General safety guidelines | 11 |
Replacing the hard drive | 12 |
Tasks to replace the hard drive | 13 |
Replacing the hard drive in an x305 IBM server | 14 |
Replacing the hard drive in an x306 IBM server | 18 |
Replacing the x305 IBM server’s RSA | 19 |
Replacing the server’s dual NIC | 20 |
Chapter 3: Server Initialization and Shutdown | 21 |
Chapter contents | 21 |
Server initialization | 21 |
System shutdown | 22 |
Chapter 4: Operating System Monitoring | 23 |
Chapter contents | 23 |
Gathering system information | 23 |
Monitoring system processes | 23 |
Memory usage | 24 |
File systems | 25 |
Additional resources | 26 |
Chapter 5: Operating System Recovery | 27 |
Chapter contents | 27 |
Hardware/software problems | 27 |
Root password | 27 |
Booting into rescue mode | 28 |
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