User manual FUJITSU SIEMENS PRIMERGY BX600 BLADE SERVER SYSTEMS

[. . . ] PRIMERGY BX Blade Server Systems RemoteView Management Blade User Interface Description Edition November 2007 Comments. . . Corrections. . . The User Documentation Department would like to know your opinion of this manual. Your feedback helps us optimize our documentation to suit your individual needs. Feel free to send us your comments by e-mail to manuals@fujtsu-siemens. com. Certified documentation according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2000 To ensure a consistently high quality standard and user-friendliness, this documentation was created to meet the regulations of a quality management system which complies with the requirements of the standard DIN EN ISO 9001:2000. [. . . ] These icons are also displayed on the other pages of the web user interface. Go to the home page (if currently on another page). RemoteView Management Blade 65 System Property Web user interface 4. 2 System Property By working with the option System Property the user can apply changes to the system configuration. The settings of the system configuration that can be modified by the user have been grouped into six fields. Corresponding to these are the following options: ­ System Events Log (see 4. 2. 1 on page 66) ­ Environment/Maintenance (see 4. 2. 2 on page 69) ­ LAN Interface (see 4. 2. 3 on page 76) ­ SNMP Interface (see 4. 2. 4 on page 79) ­ Console Redirection (see 4. 2. 5 on page 80) ­ System Information (see 4. 2. 6 on page 82) ­ User Accounts (see 4. 2. 7 on page 82) ­ Deployment Table (The parameters are very similar to those of the corresponding Telnet option, thus you can refer to the description in 3. 3. 12 on page 46). ­ PPP and Modem Setting (The parameters are very similar to those of the corresponding Telnet option, thus you can refer to the description in 3. 3. 14 on page 51). 4. 2. 1 System Event Log The System Event Log option provides information on events that happened on the system. Alarms can be configured for events in such a way that an e-mail is sent whenever an event of a certain kind occurs. The option comprises two sub-options: ­ Event Log ­ Alarm Handler 66 RemoteView Management Blade Web user interface 4. 2. 1. 1 Event Log System Property This option displays all system events to the user. The events displayed can be filtered according to the blade system that they are related to, or to the error type. The events are shown in the following format: Option Time stamp Error type Error code Content Description Month ­ day ­ year. Error message description. There is a Clear all entries option, which will clear all entries from the event repository. 4. 2. 1. 2 Alarm handler This option is used to configure the e-mails that are sent as alarms after an event has occurred on the system and to configure the event log. The following parameters are configured for an e-mail: Parameter To From Host Subject Administrator name Phone number Error Forwarding Here you select which topics should be considered for error forwarding and specify the minimum error level to entail forwarding. System administrator phone number. RemoteView Management Blade 67 System Property Server Blade Power On/Off Event Log Enable Web user interface This option is used to specify, whether power on/off events for the server blades should be listed in the event log. Management Blade Wrap Around Event Log Enable This option is used to specify, whether the wrap-around functionality for the event log should be used. enable When the event log repository is full, new event log entries replace the old ones beginning with the first event log entry. disable When the event log repository is full, no event log entries are written any longer. 68 RemoteView Management Blade Web user interface System Property 4. 2. 2 Environment/Maintenance This option is used to adjust the settings of the environment modules. The system administrator can configure a reaction to be executed when a critical threshold value is reached for a module. There are the following sub-options: ­ Firmware Update ­ Power Supply ­ UPS ­ Chassis ­ Fans ­ Reset Management Blade 4. 2. 2. 1 Firmware Update This option is used to perform firmware updates for the blade server system. There are three different kinds of updates: ­ Management blade ­ Server blade BMC ­ Server blade BIOS I For further information on updating BX components please refer to the Operating Manual of your BX system. RemoteView Management Blade 69 System Property Management Blade BMC Update Web user interface To perform a management blade BMC update, the following parameters can be set: Parameter TFTP Server IP Address Agent Update IP Address Description Address of the TFTP server providing the image file for the management blade firmware. Setting of an agent IP address. I The IP address to be supplied in the field Agent Update IP Address is only temporarily used. Enter any IP address which is not used in the LAN segment of the server. This parameter is set to enable the TFTP update for the management blade system. Boot Image File Name TFTP Upgrade Enable Server Blade BMC Update To perform a server blade BMC update, the following parameters can be set: Parameter TFTP Server IP Address Boot Image File Name Description Address of the TFTP server providing the image file for the management blade firmware. [. . . ] 4. 6. 1. 2 Auto Configuration There is one parameter that can be set to backup the CMOS configuration of the server blades, and another one to restore it: Parameter Description CMOS Backup Used to generate a backup of the BIOS parameters for the server blade. The server blade must be powered up, before the backup can be generated. If the backup has been generated successfully, it will appear in the CMOS file selecting table. To do this, a CMOS file is selected and the Restore Policy parameter is set. [. . . ]