IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II manual Contents

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Remote Supervisor Adapter II features	. .	. .	.	.	.	1
Web browser and operating-system requirements	. .	. .	.	.	.	3
Notices used in this book	. .	. .	.	.	.	3
Chapter 2. Opening and using the Web interface	. .	. .	.	.	.	5
Logging in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II	. .	. .	.	.	.	5
Remote Supervisor Adapter II action descriptions	. .	. .	.	.	.	8
Chapter 3. Configuring the Remote Supervisor Adapter II .	. .	. . .	.	.		11
Setting system information	. .	. . .	.	.		12

Setting server timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Setting the date and time	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	16
Synchronizing clocks in a network	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	17
Disabling the USB device driver interface . .	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	18
Creating a login profile	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	18
Configuring the global login settings	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	20
Configuring remote alert settings	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	22
Configuring remote alert recipients	. .	. . . .	. .	. .	.	.	23

Forwarding alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting remote alert attempts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting remote alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Setting local events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Configuring the serial connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Configuring the dual serial connectors for serial redirection. . . . . . . . . 33 Serial-to-serial redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Serial-to-Telnet redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Configuring the command-line interface settings	.	.	36
Configuring port assignments	.	.	38

Configuring network interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Configuring an Ethernet connection to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II	39
Configuring PPP access over a serial connection	. . 42

Configuring network protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Configuring SNMP	.	.	43
Configuring SMTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting up a client to use the LDAP server	.	.	46
Configuring the LDAP client authentication	.	.	49
Configuring the LDAP search attributes	.	.	49
TCP Command Mode Protocol	.	.	52
Service Location Protocol (SLP)	.	.	52
Secure Web server and secure LDAP	.	.	53
Configuring security	.	.	53
SSL certificate overview	.	.	54
SSL server certificate management	.	.	55
Enabling SSL for the secure Web server	.	.	60
SSL client certificate management	.	.	60
SSL client trusted certificate management	.	.	61
Enabling SSL for the LDAP client	.	.	62
Configuring the Secure Shell server	.	.	62
Generating a Secure Shell server key	.	.	63
Enabling the Secure Shell server	.	.	63
Using the Secure Shell server	.	.	64

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