Installing Supplemental Software

There are supplemental software components available for your Sun Blade server module. You have two options for installation: Typical, where basic choices are made for you (as indicated in the table below), and Custom, which is a superset of Typical and includes all software components of Typical plus additional software components you can select.

TABLE 8-1Install Pack Supplemental Software

Available Components

Windows Server

Windows Server

 

2003

2008

 

 

 

Sun STK RAID Manager—Allows you to configure, administer and

Typical

Typical

monitor RAID on the Sun Blade RAID Expansion Module, X4620A

 

 

(Adaptec-based). Refer to “Managing RAID Using the StorageTek RAID

 

 

Manager” on page 53.

 

 

 

 

 

ipmitool—Command line utility that reads the sensor data repository

Typical

Typical

(SDR) and displays sensor values, System Event Log (SEL) entries, Field

 

 

Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory information, gets and sets LAN

 

 

configuration parameters, and performs chassis power control

 

 

operations via the BMC (also called the Service Processor). For Windows

 

 

Server 2003 installations, refer to “Completing the IPMItool Installation”

 

 

on page 56).

 

 

 

 

 

Intel Teaming—NIC teaming features include fault tolerance, load

Typical

Typical

balancing, link aggregation, and Virtual LAN (VLAN) tagging. After

 

 

installation, refer to “Using Intel NIC Teaming” on page 53.

 

 

 

 

 

To Install Supplemental Software

Note – If you have already installed the supplemental software, running the installation again will not necessarily reinstall the supplemental software. It may result in the components being removed. Carefully review the dialog boxes during supplemental software installation to ensure that the results are as expected.

If you selected Supplemental Software at the initial Installation Package page (see FIGURE 8-1) in Step 2, and selected No in Step 7, the Supplemental Software dialog box displays:

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