6-8 Installing and Using Utilities

–Create Maintenance Partition

NEC EXPRESSBUILDER creates about 55MB of the maintenance partition on the system disk (or disk array system) as work area. The various utilities are installed when the maintenance partition is created successfully or when the maintenance partition is already created.

–Install Maintenance Partition Utilities

Various utilities are installed in the maintenance partition from the CD-ROM.

–Update Maintenance Partition Utilities

Various utilities are copied in the Maintenance Partition from the update disk. This menu is only used when the update disk is supplied from your service representative or attached with your system.

–FDISK

Execute FDISK command of ROM-DOS system. You can create/delete partitions, etc.

„BIOS/FW/etc. Update

This menu allows you to update the software module such as BIOS and firmware of the server by using the update disk (3.5-inch floppy disk) that is distributed from NEC customer service representative.

After rebooting the system, an update program is started automatically from the floppy disk, and the various BIOS and firmware programs are updated.

IMPORTANT: Do not turn off the server while the update program is running. If the update processing is discontinued, the system becomes unable to start.

„Initialize Remote Management Card

"Initialize Remote Management Card" is used to configure the Remote Management Card with correct parameters of the system installed it.

„System Management

The parameters of BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) are set for remote control and alert.

„Help

Displays explanations about various functions of NEC EXPRESSBUILDER.

„Return to the Top Menu

Choosing this menu returns to the Top Menu.