General Description 2-15

Off-line Maintenance Utility

The Off-line Maintenance Utility is used for maintenance and fault analysis of the server. This utility is usually used by the service representative. See Chapter 8 for details.

System Diagnostic Utility

The system diagnostic utility contained in the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER is useful to detect hardware failures. See Chapter 7 for details.

Remote Management

The server may be monitored and managed via LAN/WAN by installing the optional Remote Management (N8115-03) and NEC DianaScope utility. To use the NEC DianaScope, a separately priced server license is required.

The Remote Management performs the following:

„Monitoring of temperature, voltage, and fans

„Generation of SEL (system event log) at occurrence of hardware failure

„Monitoring of OS stall by using watchdog timer

„Notification after occurrence of OS stop error

„Remote management via LAN/WAN by using NEC DianaScope (e.g., resetting the server, power on/off, viewing System Event Log (SEL))

NOTES:

„Notes on using Remote Management (N8115-03)

–Booting the server from the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD by using the Remote Media function is not available.

–For the latest information about Remote Console/Remote Media function, visit our web site.

„The following functions are not supported in the command line interface of EXPRESSSCOPE Engine.

–Power state acquisition

–STATUS LED state acquisition