IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II action descriptions, Remote Supervisor Adapter II actions

Remote Supervisor Adapter II action descriptions

Table 1 lists the actions that are available when you are logged in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II.

Table 1. Remote Supervisor Adapter II actions

Link	Action	Description
System Status	View system health for a server,	You can monitor the server power and state and the
	view the operating-system-failure	temperature, voltage, and fan status of your server on the
	screen capture, and view the	System Health page. You can also view the image of the
	users who are logged in to the	last operating-system-failure screen capture and the users
	Remote Supervisor Adapter II	who are logged in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II.
Event Log	View event logs for remote	The Event Log page contains entries that are currently
	servers	stored in the server event log and power-on self-test
		(POST) event log. Information about all remote access
		attempts and dial-out events are recorded in the event log.
		All events in the log are time stamped using the Remote
		Supervisor Adapter II date and time settings. Some events
		will also generate alerts, if configured to do so on the
		Alerts page. You can sort and filter events in the event log.
Vital Product Data	View the server VPD	When the server starts, the Remote Supervisor Adapter II
		collects system information, basic input/output system
		(BIOS) information, and server component vital product
		data (VPD) and stores it in nonvolatile memory. This data
		is available from the Vital Product Data page.
Power/Restart	Remotely turn on or restart a	The Remote Supervisor Adapter II provides full remote
	server	power control over your server with power-on, power-off,
		and restart actions. In addition, power-on and restart
		statistics are captured and displayed to show server
		hardware availability.
Remote Control	Redirect the server video console	From the Remote Control page, you can start the Remote
	and use your computer disk drive	Control function. Using the Remote Control function, you
	or disk image as a drive on the	can redirect the server console to your computer, and you
	server	can mount one of your computer disk drives, such as the
		CD-ROM drive or the diskette drive, on the server. When
		you have redirected the server console, you can use your
		mouse and keyboard to control the server. When you have
		mounted a disk, you can use it to restart the server and to
		update firmware on the server. You can use the Remote
		Console function to access the mounted disk, which will
		appear as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) disk drive that is
		attached to the server.
Serial Redirect1	Configure serial-to-serial	From the Serial Redirect page, you can use the serial
	redirection or serial-to-Telnet	redirection quick setup to simplify the configuration of
	redirection.	serial-to-serial redirection or serial-to-Telnet redirection.
PXE Network Boot	Change the host server startup	If your server BIOS and Preboot Execution Environment
	(boot) sequence for the next	(PXE) boot agent utility are properly defined, from the PXE
	restart to attempt a PXE/DHCP	Network Boot page you can change the host server
	network startup.	startup (boot) sequence for the next restart to attempt a
		PXE/DHCP network startup. The host startup sequence
		will be altered only if the host is not under Privileged
		Access Protection (PAP). After the next restart occurs, the
		check box on the PXE Network Boot page will be cleared.
Firmware Update	Update firmware on the Remote	Use the options on the Firmware Update page to update
	Supervisor Adapter II	firmware of the Remote Supervisor Adapter II.

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