IBM Partner Pavilion Remote Supervisor Adapter manual Asm

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Table 1. Actions available when logged in to a Remote Supervisor Adapter or when logged in to the ASM processor in an xSeries 330 server (continued)

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Action

Description

 

 

 

Power/Restart

Remotely power on or restart a

The Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor

 

server

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.

 

 

 

Remote Boot

Remotely start (boot) your server

Use the options in the Remote Boot page to remotely start

 

from a diskette image

(boot) your server from a newly created diskette image or

 

 

from a previously created and saved diskette image.

 

 

 

Remote Control

Redirect the server graphical

From the Remote Control page, you can redirect the

 

console or server text console,

server graphical console, redirect the server text console,

 

restart the server and view the

restart the server and view the POST process, and view

 

POST, and view the blue screen

the image of the last Windows® blue screen capture.

 

capture

 

 

 

 

Firmware Update

Update firmware on the Remote

Use the options on the Firmware Update page to update

 

Supervisor Adapter or ASM

firmware of the Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM

 

processor

processor and server components such as server BIOS

 

 

code and server diagnostics.

 

 

 

Access Remote

Access other system-management

From the Access Remote ASM page, you can view a list of

ASM

processors and adapters1 on the

system-management processors and adapters1 present on

 

ASM interconnect network

the ASM interconnect network and establish a connection

 

 

to any of those systems.

 

 

 

System Settings

View the Remote Supervisor

You can configure general information, such as the name

 

Adapter or ASM processor system

of the Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor,

 

settings

server timeout settings, and contact information for the

 

 

Remote Supervisor Adapter, and the server location from

 

 

the System Settings page.

 

 

 

 

Set the Remote Supervisor

You can set the Remote Supervisor Adapter and ASM

 

Adapter or ASM processor clock

processor clocks that are used for time stamping the

 

 

entries in the event log.

 

 

 

Login Profiles

Configure the ASM processor

You can define 12 login profiles that enable access to the

 

login profiles

Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor.

 

 

 

Alerts

Configure local events

You can set the local events monitored by the Remote

 

 

Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor, for which

 

 

notifications are sent to IBM Director.

 

 

 

 

Configure remote alerts and

You can configure the Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM

 

remote alert recipients

processor to generate and forward alerts for a number of

 

 

different events. You can configure the alerts that are

 

 

monitored and the recipients that are notified on the Alerts

 

 

page.

 

 

 

 

Configure alert settings

You can set the number of alert retries and the delay

 

 

between the retries.

 

 

 

Serial Port

Dedicate a serial port to the

From the Serial Port page, you can configure the serial

 

Remote Supervisor Adapter or the

port and modem settings used by the Remote Supervisor

 

ASM processor or share access

Adapter or ASM processor.

 

with a host server

Note: The ASM processor uses the serial port on the

 

 

server. If a Remote Supervisor Adapter is installed in an

 

 

xSeries 330 server, you can configure one of the serial

 

 

ports to be shared with the operating system running on

 

 

the server and the other serial port always to be dedicated

 

 

to the ASM processor.

 

 

 

8Remote Supervisor Adapter: User’s Guide

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