IBM BladeCenter 8677 User Manual

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Rear system LED panel

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Blower module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
I/O module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Power module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Management module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

System LED panel

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Chapter 4. Configuring your BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting up the remote connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Cabling the Ethernet port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring the management module for remote access. . . . . . . . . 39
Communicating with the IBM Director software . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Configuring Wake on LAN in the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Verifying your Wake on LAN configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Linux-specific configuration

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Using the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Starting the management and configuration program . . . . . . . . . . 42
Management and configuration program options

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Configuring the external Ethernet port

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Configuring the internal Ethernet port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring the management port on I/O modules . . . . . . . . . . 44

Saving and restoring the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using IBM Director

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About the wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Starting the wizard

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Using Remote Deployment Manager Version 4.1 or later

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Configuring a switch module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

What to configure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Supporting Ethernet failover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring the Ethernet controllers in the blade servers

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BladeCenter networking guidelines

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Chapter 5. Sharing resources among the blade servers

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Chapter 6. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Troubleshooting charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Monitor problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Power problems

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Management module problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Blower module problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Options problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Light path diagnostics feature

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Identifying problems using the light path diagnostics feature . . . . . . . 56
Light path diagnostics LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . 59
Before you call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Using the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Getting help and information from the World Wide Web . . . . . . . . . . 59
Software service and support

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Hardware service and support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Appendix B. IBM Statement of Limited Warranty Z125-4753-07 11/2002

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Part 1 - General Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Part 2 - Country-unique Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

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