Intel Server Management (ISM) Version 5.5.5 for the hp Carrier-Grade Server cc3310 Installation and User’s Guide Version 3.0 Manufacturing Part Number: cc3310_W2K3_IntelSrvrMgmnt January 2006 U.S.A. © Copyright 2006, Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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Legal Notices.............................................................................................................................................. 2 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 9 New ISM Features..................................................................................................................................... 9 System Requirements ......................................................
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Introduction Installing the One-Boot Flash Update Utility....................................................................................... 21 Windows Installation ............................................................................................................................ 21 Linux Installation ..................................................................................................................................
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Introduction System Information............................................................................................................................... 39 Temperature .......................................................................................................................................... 40 Third-Party Components.................................................................................................................
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Introduction Rebooting to the Service Partition......................................................................................................... 55 Displaying Configuration Status ........................................................................................................... 56 6 CLIENT SSU (CSSU) DETAILS ................................................................................... 57 CSSU Operation.....................
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Introduction CLI Commands....................................................................................................................................... 69 alarm -s.................................................................................................................................................. 70 alarm -q ........................................................................................................................
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Introduction Locally Booting the Server from the Service Partition ..................................................................... 101 Utilities ................................................................................................................................................... 102 Service Partition Administrator (SPADMIN).....................................................................................
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Installation Steps 1 Introduction Intel® Server Management (ISM) is a server management tool implemented with a client-server architecture.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Installation Steps Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support must be installed to use HP OpenView. For SNMP configuration information, see your Windows or Red Hat Linux documentation. On the console system(s), when configuring SNMP you must integrate MIB files into the SNMP management consoles (see page 20).
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Installation Steps On Management Stations For new management stations, check that a service partition exists. (Look for boot option F4. If no service partition exists—F4 is not found—refer to the hp Carrier-Grade Server cc3310 Product Guide for information and instructions.) 1. Boot the management station from the System Resource CD and run the Server Configuration Wizard.
2 Installation Steps NOTE If you need to update the ISM software remotely, zip the /ism directory (and all subdirectories) and copy it to the remote system using FTP, or other remote connections. Then execute the installation scripts on the remote system. Step 1. Boot from the System Resource CD and Run the Configuration Wizard 1. Insert the HP Server cc3310 Information Diagnostic and Utility Resource CD in the CD drive and reboot the server.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts If the managed server already has an operating system installed, then you can remove the CD and let the server reboot after configuration. Step 3.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts To avoid an installation failure, you can do any of the following: • • • Install ISM locally instead of remotely Disable the Simple File Sharing capability on the remote system Make sure the remote system is part of a DOMAIN For Windows 2000/Windows 2003 systems, install SNMP as follows: 1. Open the Control panel and select the Add/Remove Programs applet. 2. Click on the Add/Remove Windows Components icon.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts Dialogs and Prompts During Windows Installation • When prompted whether to run the program from its current location or download to disk, select Run this program from its current location (the CD) and click OK. • If you receive a Security Warning asking whether you want to install and run SETUP.EXE from the CD, click Yes.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts 8. Scroll down to the bottom of the window that is displayed, then click on Install Linux ISM/TAM Drivers. NOTE A script called addisc.addisc located in the directory “/UTILITY” on the Resource CD will begin executing. This script will remove and replace the appropriate ISM/TAM drivers, and install the ISM/TAM application software. 9.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts 20. If asked if you want to install “Hardware Platform Interface (HPI),” enter y to select HPI installation. 21. If prompted to accept the HPI license agreement, enter y. 22. If prompted to install the optional DPC command line interface, enter y or n as desired. If you selected the DPC option, accept the license agreement. 23. When prompted, press ENTER to continue. This signifies the end of the addisc.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts In order to receive SNMP traps for network interface card (NIC) events, you must install specific NIC SNMP software from the following Intel web site: http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/software.htm Download the Native SNMP software for your operating system and follow the installation and configuration instructions included in the download package.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts 9. Save and close the snmpd.conf file. 10. Reboot the server. Create an SMNPv3 User Account 11. Open the file /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf. 12. Create a user account with read-write access, which the snmpd daemon will use on the managed server. 13.Set a password for the snmp daemon’s user account by adding the following line to /var/ucd-snmp/snmpd.conf (be sure to stop the snmpd daemon using /etc/rc.d/init.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts Load MIB Files for SNMP Integration ISM includes MIB files as listed below for support of managed server software and hardware, including onboard third-party controllers. The third-party MIB files are specific to onboard controllers and may not apply to add-in cards. • BASEBRD2.MIB: (used with earlier versions of ISM) • BASEBRD4.MIB: (used with ISC 3.5 through ISM 5.x) • IOMMIB.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts Uninstalling ISM Uninstalling ISM from Windows Systems To uninstall ISM itself or components of ISM, run the uninstall.exe file that is installed with the system. You can also select ISM Full Uninstall from the Windows Start menu or use the Add/Remove Programs utility in the Control Panel. You can uninstall ISM from Windows servers either locally (one at a time) or remotely from a Windows console system.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts Linux Installation Perform the following steps to install the One-Boot Flash Update Utility on a Linux system: 1. Verify that the w3c libraries distributed as part of Red Hat Linux are present on the system. If the w3c libraries are not installed, install them according to Red Hat Linux documentation. (For example: on RHEL 3.0 xxx was found on CD #2.) 2. Insert the ISM CD into the Linux server CD-ROM drive.
3 Intel Server Management (ISM) Concepts ISM Components ISM includes the following server management tools: Intel Server Management Console—The ISM Console provides basic server management functions. It lets you discover servers that have ISM installed, and allows you to run Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC), Direct Platform Control (DPC), DMI Explorer, and Client System Setup Utility (CSSU). See page 25 for more information on the ISM Console.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details • Platform Event Paging is a service that notifies a numeric pager. • E-mail Alerting sends a notice to specified e-mail IDs. • System ID LED alerts use the system ID LED to indicate a system requiring attention. LAN Alerts The LAN Alert software can alert you of system failures and state changes regardless of the state of the managed server’s operating system or the server’s management software.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details NOTE Paging alerts may continue after paging has been removed as an alert action. If both shutdown and paging are selected in response to an event, the page may not be sent. (Shutdown may occur first.) To configure the paging string and event filters, use PIC or CSSU on the console, or use SSU on the managed server.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details • Launch the management tools on the managed servers ISM Console Main Screen The following figure shows the main screen of the ISM Console.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details the tool pane shows a list of supported tools running on that server. Launch the supported tool by doubleclicking on the icon in the tool pane. Server Menu Options Discover You can discover multiple servers in a single step and add them to the server tree. To discover a range of servers with IP addresses, do the following: 1. On the Button Bar, click the Server->Discover menu selection. 2.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details Stop Discovery Stops the discovery process. This is only valid during a discovery. You may choose to stop discovery of all servers on the network and simply add the server IP addresses that you want to manage. View Menu Options Icon View/List View Changes the format of the icons in the Tool Pane.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details The Status Bar The status bar displays information about ISM Console operations, such as the number of ISM servers discovered and the number of servers still to be processed.
4 Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) Details Platform Instrumentation Control (PIC) communicates with servers running supported operating systems, and provides real-time monitoring and alerting for server hardware sensors. PIC communicates over the LAN to the Platform Instrumentation (PI) software on the server, using Desktop Management Interface (DMI) 2.0 protocols.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details • Displaying a message on the system console • Paging the administrator • Sending an e-mail alert • Turning the system ID LED on or off For example, if the temperature reaches a level outside of the user-defined threshold, an event has occurred. You can configure PIC to respond to this event in multiple ways, as listed above. You can use PIC to view system hardware, BIOS, and slot information.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Table 4-1 Main Menu Bar Features Item Options File Menu Exit—Exits the application View Menu Toolbar—Toggles the toolbar on or off. Status Bar—Toggles the status bar on or off. Large Icons—Displays list using large icons. Small Icons—Displays list using small icons. List—Displays items in list format. Details—Displays items in detail format. Arrange Icons—Arranges icons by name or status.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Toolbar The toolbar gives quick access to some menu items. To hide the icon toolbar, click the right mouse button over the toolbar, and then click the Hide item that appears. Navigation Pane The Navigation Pane shows a tree view of server components that can be monitored. Many branches of the tree represent group components that have further branches, which you can expand or collapse with the + or – icons.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Display Details For all the following items, PIC displays the item only if appropriate sensors are available on the baseboard. For example, there is a Chassis display only if the baseboard has chassis open/closed switches. Health Information about all unhealthy sensors is copied under the Health branch.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details PIC monitors two types of fans: • Rotation-sensing fans—not used in the HP Server cc3310PIC can detect whether a fan has stopped but is not able to indicate which fan has failed. These fans, together, are treated as a single fan unit. Therefore, event actions must be configured for all fans together, rather than separately.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Figure 4-1 Fan Removed Message PIC also refreshes the PIC interface so that the removed fan is no longer reported. For example, if the system supports five fans, and Fan 3 is removed, PIC will display status for Fan 1, Fan 2, Fan 4, and Fan 5, with no entry at all for Fan 3.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Figure 4-3 Fan Status Display with all Fan Installed Memory Displays Memory and memory error correction are represented by the following items: • Memory Devices • Memory Arrays For systems that support Error Correction Code (ECC) memory, PIC reports memory status information for memory arrays and individual memory devices.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details • Sets the Last Error Update value to During PIC Runtime, indicating the update occurred while the system was operational The BIOS stops logging noncritical single-bit errors when the SBE error count reaches nine. This prevents the errors from filling the SEL.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details If a power supply reports a predictive failure condition, PIC reports the status as a noncritical condition in the health branch and carries out the requested event actions. If a power supply fails, PIC reports the failure as a critical condition in the health branch and carries out the requested event actions.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Temperature The temperature item displays information about all temperature sensors. You can see individual sensor information in the presentation pane by selecting the corresponding sensor in the navigation tree. The Sensor Settings tab lets you monitor current temperature readings, current status, and sensor error counts, and lets you set sensor thresholds. If a threshold is not supported, it is grayed out.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details 3. Switch between the available tabs (Sensor Settings, Alert Actions, Sensor Information or Inventory Information) to view or update the information. 4. Click Apply for any changes made to the sensor configuration. At any time you can change views to another sensor by selecting another component in the navigation pane.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details The ISM GUI refreshes the screen after displaying each entry in the SEL. If the SEL has many entries, it may take a long time for the ISM GUI to initialize after first launch. You can avoid long initialization delays by clearing unneeded (old) entries from the SEL before launching ISM. Clear entries from the SEL as follows: 1. Reboot the system 2. Press F2 to run BIOS setup 3. Select Server Management 4.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details 5. If you want to change the event actions associated with threshold state change conditions, make the changes on the Alert Actions tab. 6. Click Apply for any changes made to the alert action configuration. NOTE After applying new threshold values that may cause an event indication, the sensor status icon displayed on the Sensor Settings tab may not change.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details 3. Because the threshold was exceeded before you set the action, no new event is triggered to cause the Immediate Power Off action to occur. 4. If you reboot the system and the event condition has not been corrected (for example, the temperature is still over its threshold), the system detects the temperature condition, triggers the event, and the corresponding action is taken.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details The following tables list the threshold event actions you can set in PIC. You can specify multiple notifications per event but only one power-control action. Table 4-4 Threshold Event Actions Notification Action Description Emit a beep from the managed server’s speaker Speaker beeps. Display an alert message on the managed server Default action for noncritical and critical indications.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details NOTE If you plan to use any ISM Fault actions to power the system down you should pre-configure Linux to auto-mount the USB Floppy. In cases where the event that caused the system to power down have not been fixed or cleared, the system will automatically power down upon reaching the OS. To allow you to recover from this the system will look for a file “LRA.NOT” file on the fd0: drive.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Table 4-5 Supported Third Party Component Instrumentation Controller Adaptec SCSI a Choices Storage Device Events Group: Storage Device - Status OK (Informational Event) Storage Device - Status Changed to Noncritical (SMART Event or Recovered) Storage Device - Status Changed to Critical Storage Controller Events Group: Storage Controller - Status OK (Informational Event) Storage Controller - Status Changed to Noncriti
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Configuring the Watchdog Timer Value Each baseboard supported by PIC has a watchdog timer implemented in the hardware; the timer is disabled by default. When enabled, the timer continually decrements to test the response of the server operating system. Under normal operating conditions, the Platform Instrumentation software periodically resets the time to prevent it from reaching a value of zero.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details • Number of Pages—specifies how many times each pager number will be paged (from 1 to 100). Number of Pages defaults to 1, and if set to 1, the Repeat Paging Interval value is not needed. • Repeat Paging Interval—specifies the interval in minutes between each cycle of pages (one cycle includes sending a page to all configured pager numbers). The minimum and default value of Repeat Paging Interval is one minute.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Default threshold values are stored in Sensor Data Records (SDR) in nonvolatile storage on the baseboard. These values are determined and configured during baseboard manufacturing and are therefore not documented in this manual. Event indications may be generated if restoring the default threshold value crosses the current sensor value. For example: • User defined threshold limit 13.5V • Current sensor value 13.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Message Description Check Security Sensor at Check Physical Container Global Table at System chassis front or side panel has been opened, or it was open and has been closed. Check Cooling Fan at System fan has stopped or restarted. Check Memory Array at A memory error was reported. Check Host Adapter at A SCSI board reported a state change.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details E-mail Settings Configure e-mail by selecting Configuration > Email Alert Configuration. This configuration is global to the server and is not sensor-specific. Specify these settings on the Email Alert Configuration screen: • From Email ID—Specify the e-mail ID of the sender of the message. • To Email ID—Specify one or more destination e-mail IDs to receive the alert. Use standard Internet format.
5 Direct Platform Control (DPC) Details Direct Platform Control (DPC) gives access to a remote server when it is online or offline, when the operating system is hung, or even when the server is powered off. When you receive notice that a server has malfunctioned (for example, by receiving a page), you can use DPC to investigate the cause of the alert, take corrective action, and restart the server into normal operation.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details Starting the DPC Console The preferred way to start DPC is to double-click the DPC Console icon in the tool pane of your management software (ISM Console) after selecting the appropriate managed server. You can start DPC under Programs> Intel Server Control. You can also launch DPC Console using the command line.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details The SDR Manager displays with a navigation (tree view) pane, a presentation pane, and a description pane. Selecting a specific Sensor Data Record from the tree view displays the corresponding SDR information in the presentation pane. FRU Manager Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) are components installed in your managed server.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Client SSU (CSSU) Details To boot to the service partition: • You must be connected to the server by LAN on the NIC port that is labeled as “1”. • The connected server must contain BIOS support for booting to the service partition. • A service partition must be installed on the server hard drive. • You must have administrative rights for this connection on the server.
6 Client SSU (CSSU) Details The Client SSU (CSSU) allows you to remotely run the System Setup Utility (SSU) software or other utilities on the server. CSSU can connect to the server using a modem, serial port, or LAN. You start a CSSU session by requesting a service boot of a particular server through the I0I0I serial port (also known as Emergency Management Port or EMP). The service partition includes the ROM-DOS operating system and SSU, and may contain other utilities you install.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Console Redirection Window The console redirection window displays the server boot process when the CSSU connection to the server is by modem or LAN. This window cannot accept user input. Its purpose is to help users get more information during a server reboot to the service partition. Phonebook The Client SSU shares a phonebook with DPC.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface System Event Log Manager The System Event Log (SEL) contains a sequential record of events that have occurred in the remote server. The SEL can help you determine the cause of server system failures.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface System Update Manager The System Update Manager (SUM) lets you update the server BIOS or firmware code for various controllers such as the baseboard management controller (BMC) and hot-swap controllers (HSC).
7 Serial Data and the Command Line Interface ISM gives you the alternative of managing servers using a command line interface from a Windows console. You can enter commands directly from the command line or can set up a script file of commands to be run. This feature is called Command Line Interface (CLI). Through the CLI, data from the server serial port can be redirected over the Local Area Network. This ISM feature is called Serial over LAN.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Linux Package Installation To install the Serial over LAN and CLI features on Linux, follow the steps below. You can install ISM server software first if you choose, as described in Chapter 2. However, it is not necessary to install ISM on the Linux system that you intend to use as a CLI console. 1. Log in as root. 2. Get the CLI-1.4-1.i386.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Using the Serial over LAN Feature To use the Serial over LAN feature you first initiate a Command Line Interface (CLI) session. When in platform control mode, the CLI displays a unique prompt (dpccli>). When in SOL mode, the CLI does not display a prompt and all information displayed comes directly from the SOL character stream. Here are sample steps: 1. Initiate a CLI session.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface • On Windows, if you start the network proxy in the foreground (the -f option), you can enter other options at the console’s prompt. This is not true in Linux. Command syntax is as follows, and each option is described in Table 7-1.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface • Set up the BIOS • Read sensor values • Display the network configuration of the BMC You can also execute Perl scripts to issue commands to multiple remote servers.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface 6. Configure the session’s ASCII setup properties so that line ends are sent with line feeds and that lines that exceed the terminal width do not wrap. For detailed information on HyperTerminal, consult the Windows help system. Using Windows HyperTerminal Console To connect and use CLI commands: 1. Configure the session as described above. 2.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface server with the Proxy installed. The 623 represents the default Port address required for CLI connections. If this port address has been changed while executing the dpcproxy command use that port address. For example: telnet 10.7.162.58 623 2. At the Server: prompt provide the IP Address or DNS Name of the server to which you want to connect. 3. Provide a username if applicable.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface When creating the configuration file, enter each option on a separate line. Each line must begin with an option letter optionally preceded by the hyphen character. Follow the option with any argument that applies. See the options listed on page 68. When dpccli exits, it returns a status code. The code 0 indicates expected (error free) operation.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Option Description -I Causes the session to continue as an interactive session after processing all characters supplied through an input file with the –i command-line option. The interactive mode continues after processing all characters read from an input file and/or from the command line. This is the default mode if an input file and/or text is not specified on the command line.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Command Description reset Performs a reset operation on the managed server. sel Displays the System Event Log (SEL) records. sensors Displays the current status of the server’s sensors. service Lets you interact with the Remote Service Agent (RSA). set Defines the CLI command mode prompt and response prefix. shutdown Shuts down or resets the managed system.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Description: The –q option designates this command as the query alarm command. This command queries Telco alarm records in the alarm database based on the options entered by the user. Other than –q, no options are required and all of the other options can be specified. Options: [-q] Specifies query alarm command. [-g] Query against the generator ID specified.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface alarm –c –g 4 –o 5 –a 1 Alarm ID 1 cleared (Generator ID 4) boot Syntax: boot {normal | service} [-f] [-c] Description: Sets the IPMI boot options and then resets the system. By default, the boot command attempts a graceful shutdown of the operating system before executing the IPMI reset command. If the specified boot option is unavailable, the server will boot using the boot order set in its BIOS.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface diagint Syntax: diagint [-c] Description: Forces the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) to generate an IPMI diagnostic interrupt. Options: [-c] Switches the session to Serial over LAN mode after successfully executing the IPMI diagnostic interrupt command. exit or quit Syntax: exit quit Description: Terminates the CLI session.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface identify Syntax: identify [-on [seconds]] [-off] [-s] Description: Causes the server to signal its physical location with a blinking LED or beep. Use this command to locate a server in a rack of servers. Options: [-on [seconds]] Specifies the number of seconds to blink the LED or sound the beep. If you do not provide a value for seconds, the default is 15 seconds.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface power Syntax: power {on [-c]} | {off [-f]} Description: Initiates a power-up or power-down sequence on the managed server. By default, this command attempts a graceful shutdown of the operating system before executing the IPMI power-off command. To perform a graceful shutdown, the Platform Instrumentation (PI) software must be installed on the server.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Description: Displays System Event Log (SEL) records.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface displayed. For example, setting the threshold to CR displays all sensors with critical, nonrecoverable, and unspecified conditions. Specify one of the following for threshold: ok Operating in normal ranges. nc Noncritical condition caused by a sensor outside of its normal ranges. cr Critical condition that is potentially fatal to the system caused by a sensor exceeding its specified ratings.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface set Syntax: set prompt=text | prefix=text Description: Defines the CLI command-line prompt and the prefix that is applied to CLI command responses. By default, the command-line prompt is dpccli, and the default response prefix is an empty string. Options: prompt=text Changes the CLI prompt to text. prefix=text Changes the response prefix to text. text The prompt or prefix text.
8 Native Command Line Native Command Line Overview Native command line is a feature that allows you to directly send text-based commands to the server’s Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) using a serial port connection. Terminal mode supports standard binary IPMI 1.5 hex-ASCII commands as well as specific text commands.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface i. Check the box to Enable Handshake When BMC ready to receive another message (the BMC will return the string SYS when it is ready to accept another message from the console). j. For the Newline output sequence (BMC to console), select CRLF (carriage return/linefeed). k. For the Newline input sequence (console to BMC), select CR (carriage return). 4.
Each native command line message must be preceded with the left bracket start character and must be ended with a right bracket stop character and the configured input newline sequence. No input characters are accepted until the start character has been received. Native command line text commands are case sensitive, but hex-ASCII commands can use either upper or lower case letters for ASCII representations of hex digits. Native command line messages are limited to a maximum length of 122 characters.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface 1 [7:2] - Net Function (odd) [1:0] - Responder’s LUN 2 [7:2] - Requester’s Sequence Number [1:0] - Bridge field 3 Command Number 4 Completion Code 5:N Data Native Command Line IPMI Message Bridging Native Command Line supports the ability to bridge IPMI messages to another interface when binary hexASCII IPMI commands are used.
Hex-ASCII command example (IPMI Reset Watchdog Cmd): [18 00 22] [1C 00 22 00] Text command example: [SYS TMODE] [OK TMODE] Table 8-4. Native Command Line Text Commands Command SYS PWD Switches -U USERNAME Description Used to activate a terminal mode session. USERNAME corresponds to the ASCII text for the username. represents a printable password (up to 16 characters). If is not provided, then a Null password (all binary 0s) is submitted.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Command Switches Description [6:0] - Boot option parameter selector YY...NN -- Boot Option Parameter Data Per Table 8-5. Passing 0-bytes of parameter data allows the parameter valid bit to be changed without affecting the present parameter setting. SYS GET BOOTOPT XX YY ZZ This is essentially a text version of the IPMI Get System Boot Options command.
Command Switches Description SYS HEALTH QUERY Causes the BMC to return a high level version of the system health status in terse format. The BMC returns a string with the following format if the command is accepted.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Command SYS BOOT Switches -F NORMAL | SERVICEa Description The boot command sets the IPMI boot options and resets the system. This command is different then the IPMI set boot command. boot: This command attempts a graceful shutdown of the OS before resetting. With no parameters this is the same as shutdown –r. boot –f: Forces a hard reset (no graceful shutdown).
Command ALARM -S Switches -A id -L severity Description This command sets or adds a Telco Alarm record to the Telco Alarm database. The generator id will always be 47h and the software originator id will be 0. Parameters: [-A id] - Alarm ID [-L severity] - Alarm Severity Level. Severities are CRT (critical), MJR (major) and MNR (minor). The BMC returns any one of the following response: New alarm added to BMC TAM alarm database. Request alarm matches existing BMC TAM alarm database record.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Performing a graceful OS shutdown requires a proprietary OS agent be present. If this agent is not present or unable to respond after 7 seconds, an error message will be displayed for the user and the command will terminate (no reset or power off performed). Graceful shutdown commands will not perform hard resets or power off if OS shutdown does not complete.
Parameter acknowledge (semivolatile) a # Parameter Data (nonvolatile unless otherwise noted) information should check the boot info and clear their corresponding bit after consuming the boot options data. Data 1: Write Mask (write-only. This field is returned as 00h when read. This is to eliminate the need for the BMC to provide storage for the Write Mask field.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Parameter Boot flags (semivolatile) a # 5 Parameter Data (nonvolatile unless otherwise noted) Data 1 [7] - 1b = Boot flags valid. The bit should be set to indicate that valid flag data is present. This bit may be automatically cleared based on the boot flag valid bit clearing parameter, above. [6:0] - Reserved BIOS support for the following flags is optional.
Parameter Boot flags # 5 Parameter Data (nonvolatile unless otherwise noted) Data 4 (semivolatile) a [7:4] - Reserved (continued) Can be used to request BIOS to temporarily place the channel into shared access mode. [3] - BIOS Shared Mode Override Per the recommendations in the IPMI specification, shared access would cause the baseboard serial controller to remain enabled after POST/start of OS boot, while also allowing the BMC to be accessible.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface Parameter Boot initiator info # 6 (semivolatile) a Parameter Data (nonvolatile unless otherwise noted) Address & Identity information for the party that initiated the boot. The party that initiates the boot writes this parameter and the boot info acknowledge parameter prior to issuing the command that causes the system to power up, power cycle, or reset.
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Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Serial Data and the Command Line Interface 9 One-Boot Flash Update Utility This section describes the process for updating the BIOS and firmware (BMC, FRU, and SDR) on a managed server while the operating system is running. After the update has completed, the next system reset activates the newly updated BIOS and /or firmware. For installation instructions for this utility, refer to Installing the One-Boot Flash Update Utility on page 21.
• [-c] Cancels all pending update operations that were performed using the utility. The utility resets the internal flags in the BIOS, BMC, and SRD to cancel the update, whether there is one or not. The FRU update cannot be cancelled with this option. [-h] Displays command line help information.
10 Glossary
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Appendix A C CA Unicenter TNG Computer Associates Unicenter The Next Generation CSSU Client System Setup Utility lets you run SSU remotely from a management station D DMI Desktop Management Interface DPC Direct Platform Control E EMP Emergency Management Port—the I0I0I serial ports on the front and rear of the server.
PI Platform Instrumentation, which runs on the management station PXE Preboot Execution Environment, code that enables booting from a network server R RAID Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RPC Remote Procedure Call S SBE Single-Bit Error SCSI A type of bus used to access peripherals such as hard disks SCW Server Configuration Wizard – DOS utility to configure the server for server management features SDR Sensor Data Records SEL System Event Log SMI System Management Interrupt SNMP Simple Network Manag
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User's Guide Appendix A T TCO Total Cost of Ownership port—a particular network access port on a server 100
Appendix A Service Partition The service partition is a special hard disk partition on the server system that you install or update with the Server Configuration Wizard. This partition contains utilities such as the System Setup Utility (SSU) and other software required for remote management. The service partition is not marked as an active partition and the server will only boot from it by a special request. Low-level disk utilities may see the partition entry as an EISA partition and recognize its space.
Intel Server Management (ISM) Installation and User’s Guide Appendix A Utilities An option in the Server Configuration Wizard allows you to run these Server Configuration Utilities: • Service Partition Administrator (SPADMIN) • System Setup Utility (SSU) • Field Replaceable Units (FRU) and Sensor Data Record (SDR) Loader Utility Service Partition Administrator (SPADMIN) SPADMIN is the software utility that lets you create and configure the service partition on the server’s hard disk drive.
