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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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 |
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| to show server hardware availability. |
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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 |
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| from a previously created and saved diskette image. |
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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 |
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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 |
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| code and server diagnostics. |
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Access Remote | Access other | From the Access Remote ASM page, you can view a list of |
ASM | processors and adapters1 on the | |
| ASM interconnect network | the ASM interconnect network and establish a connection |
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| to any of those systems. |
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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 |
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| Remote Supervisor Adapter, and the server location from |
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| the System Settings page. |
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| 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 |
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| entries in the event log. |
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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. |
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Alerts | Configure local events | You can set the local events monitored by the Remote |
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| Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor, for which |
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| notifications are sent to IBM Director. |
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| 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 |
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| different events. You can configure the alerts that are |
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| monitored and the recipients that are notified on the Alerts |
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| page. |
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| Configure alert settings | You can set the number of alert retries and the delay |
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| between the retries. |
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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 |
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| server. If a Remote Supervisor Adapter is installed in an |
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| xSeries 330 server, you can configure one of the serial |
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| ports to be shared with the operating system running on |
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| the server and the other serial port always to be dedicated |
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| to the ASM processor. |
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