IBM Partner Pavilion Remote Supervisor Adapter - Manual (Page 14)

Table 1. Actions available when logged in to a Remote Supervisor Adapter or when logged in to the ASM processor
in an xSeries 330 server (continued)
Link Action Description
Power/Restart Remotely power on or restart a
server The Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor
provides full remote power control over your server with
power-on, power-off, and restart actions. In addition,
power-on and restart statistics are captured and displayed
to show server hardware availability.
Remote Boot Remotely start (boot) your server
from a diskette image Use the options in the Remote Boot page to remotely start
(boot) your server from a newly created diskette image or
from a previously created and saved diskette image.
Remote Control Redirect the server graphical
console or server text console,
restart the server and view the
POST, and view the blue screen
capture From the Remote Control page, you can redirect the
server graphical console, redirect the server text console,
restart the server and view the POST process, and view
the image of the last Windows
® blue screen capture.
Firmware Update Update firmware on the Remote
Supervisor Adapter or ASM
processor Use the options on the Firmware Update page to update
firmware of the Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM
processor and server components such as server BIOS
code and server diagnostics.
Access Remote
ASM Access other system-management
processors and adapters
1 on the
ASM interconnect network
From the Access Remote ASM page, you can view a list of
system-management processors and adapters
1 present on
the ASM interconnect network and establish a connection
to any of those systems.
System Settings View the Remote Supervisor
Adapter or ASM processor system
settings You can configure general information, such as the name
of the Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor,
server timeout settings, and contact information for the
Remote Supervisor Adapter, and the server location from
the System Settings page.
Set the Remote Supervisor
Adapter or ASM processor clock You can set the Remote Supervisor Adapter and ASM
processor clocks that are used for time stamping the
entries in the event log.
Login Profiles Configure the ASM processor
login profiles You can define 12 login profiles that enable access to the
Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor.
Alerts Configure local events You can set the local events monitored by the Remote
Supervisor Adapter or ASM processor, for which
notifications are sent to IBM Director.
Configure remote alerts and
remote alert recipients You can configure the Remote Supervisor Adapter or ASM
processor to generate and forward alerts for a number of
different events. You can configure the alerts that are
monitored and the recipients that are notified on the Alerts
page.
Configure alert settings You can set the number of alert retries and the delay
between the retries.
Serial Port Dedicate a serial port to the
Remote Supervisor Adapter or the
ASM processor or share access
with a host server From the Serial Port page, you can configure the serial
port and modem settings used by the Remote Supervisor
Adapter or ASM processor.
Note: The ASM processor uses the serial port on the
server. If a Remote Supervisor Adapter is installed in an
xSeries 330 server, you can configure one of the serial
ports to be shared with the operating system running on
the server and the other serial port always to be dedicated
to the ASM processor.
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