IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II Remotely controlling the power status of a server, Restart count

vOS booted

vCPUs held in reset

Restart count

The Restart count field shows the number of times that the server has been restarted.

Note: The counter is reset to zero each time the ASM subsystem is cleared to factory defaults.

Power-on hours

The Power-on hours field shows the total number of hours that the server has been turned on.

Remotely controlling the power status of a server

The Remote Supervisor Adapter II provides full remote 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.

Attention: Read the following information to prevent the loss of data or damage to data when you perform a remote shutdown of your operating system:

vIf the Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, or Novell NetWare operating system is installed on your server, you to install the Remote Supervisor Adapter II software to support remote operating system shutdown.

vIn the Power off delay field, if the value is less than 45 seconds, the Remote Supervisor Adapter II software will adjust the value to 45 seconds when it is loaded. You can decrease the power-off delay value after the server has started, but the Remote Supervisor Adapter II software will reset it to 45 seconds on the next server restart. The Remote Supervisor Adapter II software will not change a power-off delay value that is 45 seconds or greater.

To perform the actions in the Server Power/Restart Control area, you must have read/write access to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II. For the operating system shutdown options, the Remote Supervisor Adapter II communicates with the system-management software through the Remote Supervisor Adapter II software, and the system-management software initiates the shutdown.

To perform server power and restart actions, complete the following steps.

Note: Select the following options only in case of an emergency, or if you are offsite and the server is nonresponsive.

1.Log in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II. For more information, see Chapter 2, “Opening and using the Web interface,” on page 5.

2.In the navigation pane, click Power/Restart. Scroll down to the Server Power/Restart Control area.

3.Click one of the following options:

Power on server immediately

To turn on the server and start the operating system, click Power On

Server Immediately.

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