Cisco Systems OL-26646-01 manual Initial Server Setup

Chapter 2 Installing the Server

Initial Server Setup

Initial Server Setup

Connecting and Powering On the Server (Standalone Mode)

Note This section describes how to power on the server, assign an IP address, and connect to server management when using the server in standalone mode. To use the server in UCS integration, specific cabling and settings are required. See Appendix D, “Installation for Cisco UCS Integration”.

The server is shipped with these default settings:

•The NIC mode is Shared LOM EXT.

Shared LOM EXT mode enables the 1-Gb Ethernet ports and the ports on any installed Cisco virtual interface card (VIC) to access the Cisco Integrated Management Interface (Cisco IMC). If you want to use the 10/100 dedicated management ports to access the Cisco IMC, you can connect to the server and change the NIC mode as described in Step 4 of the following procedure.

•The NIC redundancy is active-active.All Ethernet ports are utilized simultaneously.

•DHCP is enabled.

•Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) is enabled.

Use the following procedure to perform initial setup of the server:

Step 1 Attach the supplied power cord to the power supplies in your server, and then attach the power cord to a grounded AC power outlet. See the Power Specifications, page A-2for power specifications.

Wait for approximately two minutes to let the server boot in standby power during the first bootup.

You can verify power status by looking at the Power Status LED (see Figure 1-1 on page 1-1):

•Off—There is no AC power present in the server.

•Amber—The server is in standby power mode. Power is supplied only to the Cisco IMC and some motherboard functions.

•Green—The server is in main power mode. Power is supplied to all server components.

Note During bootup, the server beeps once for each USB device that is attached to the server. Even if there are no external USB devices attached, there is a short beep for each virtual USB device such as a virtual floppy drive, CD/DVD drive, keyboard, or mouse. A beep is also emitted if a USB device is hot-plugged or hot-unplugged during BIOS power-on self test (POST), or while you are accessing the BIOS Setup utility or the EFI shell.

Step 2 Connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor to the server.

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