IBM Partner Pavilion Remote Supervisor Adapter manual Contents

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Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Remote Supervisor Adapter features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Web browser requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Notices used in this book	. . . .	.	. . .	.	2
Chapter 2. Opening and using the ASM Web interface	. . . .	.	. . .	.	3
Logging in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter	. . . .	.	. . .	.	3
Logging in to the ASM processor in an xSeries 330 server	. . . .	.	. . .	.	6

Remote Supervisor Adapter and ASM processor action descriptions . . . . . . 7 Remote Supervisor Adapter action descriptions in xSeries 330 servers . . . . . 9

Chapter 3. Configuring your Remote Supervisor	Adapter or ASM processor	13
Setting system information	. . . . . . . . . . .	14

Setting server timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Setting the date and time	.	.	.	18
Creating a login profile	.	.	.	19
Setting the global login settings	.	.	.	21
Configuring remote alert settings	.	.	.	22
Configuring remote alert recipients	.	.	.	22

Forwarding alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting remote alert attempts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Setting remote alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting local events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Configuring the serial port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Initialization-string guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Configuring network interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Configuring an Ethernet connection to the Remote Supervisor Adapter .	.	.	34
Configuring PPP access over a serial port	.	.	36

Configuring network protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Configuring SNMP	. . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuring SMTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring remote control keys	. . . . . . . .	.	.	.	41
Using the configuration file	. . . . . . . .	.	.	.	42
Backing up your current configuration . . . .	. . . . . . . .	.	.	.	42
Restoring and modifying your ASM configuration	. . . . . . . .	.	.	.	43

Restoring ASM defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Restarting ASM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Logging off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Chapter 4. Monitoring remote server status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Viewing system health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Viewing the event log	.	.	49
Viewing vital product data	.	.	51
Chapter 5. Performing Remote Supervisor Adapter tasks	.	.	55
Server power and restart activity	.	.	56
Remotely controlling the power status of a server	.	.	57

Remote boot (start) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Accessing the server graphical console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Viewing the server POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Viewing the server blue screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Updating firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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