Maintenance 6-9
OFF-LINE MAINTENANCE UTILITY
The Off-line Maintenance Utility is an OS-independent maintenance program. When you are unable to start the OS-dependent NEC ESMPRO to troubleshoot a problem, the Off-line Maintenance Utility can be used.
IMPORTANT:
The Off-line Maintenance Utility is intended for use of your sales agent. The NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM and the Off-line Maintenance Utility Bootable FD you have created contain a file that describes operation of the utility, but do not attempt to use the utility by yourself. Contact your sales agent and follow instructions.
Starting the Off-line Maintenance Utility disables any access from a client to the server.
Starting the Off-line Maintenance Utility
The Off-line Maintenance Utility may be started in the following ways.
NEC Express5800/ft series does not support the feature to start the Off-line Maintenance Utility from the maintenance partition.
From the CD-ROM
Set the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive and reboot the system. After the menu is displayed on the screen, select [Tools] → [Off-line Maintenance Utility]. The Off-line Maintenance Utility program starts from the CD-ROM.
From the floppy disk
Set the Off-line Maintenance Utility Bootable FD in the floppy disk drive and reboot the system. The Off-line Maintenance Utility program starts from the boot disk. The Off-line Maintenance Utility Bootable FD is created by selecting [Tools] → [Create Support FD] on the NEC EXPRESSBUILDER.
Features of Off-line Maintenance Utility
The Off-line Maintenance Utility provides the following features. IPMI Information Viewer
Provides the functions to view the system event log (SEL), sensor data record (SDR), and field replaceable unit (FRU) in IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) and to make a backup copy of them.
Using this feature, you can find system errors and events to determine a maintenance part.
BIOS Setup Viewer
Provides the functions to export the current configuration data defined with the SETUP utility to a text file.
