Troubleshooting Tips for Powering On NonStop BladeSystems HP Part Number: 632168-001 Published: August 2010 Edition: J06.03 and subsequent J-series RVUs.
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About This Document This document provides “Troubleshooting Tips” (page 7) to help you quickly diagnose and recover from problems powering on HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystems. The “Introduction” (page 5) also provides information that will help avoid startup issues. Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs) This topic supports J06.03 and all subsequent J-series RVUs until otherwise indicated in a replacement publication.
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Introduction This section describes the environment that must be in place in order for server blades in HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystems to be successfully reset, powered on, or power cycled. It includes pointers to proactive steps you or your service provider can take to help ensure trouble-free system startup. The “Troubleshooting Tips” (page 7) section that follows provides tips to help you quickly recover in the event of system or server blade startup problems.
try to power on before those consoles or CLIMs are available – which could potentially happen when recovering from a power outage. HP is recommending new server blade configuration settings designed to greatly decrease the likelihood of this situation occurring. These new settings involve increasing both the number of boot path entries and the AutoBoot Retry Configuration value. NonStop BladeSystems shipped after J06.10 will have these new configuration values by default.
Troubleshooting Tips This section provides tips to help you quickly diagnose the problem and recover in the event of problems powering on. If a NonStop BladeSystem or individual server blade does not power on following a power outage or other situation in which the system is being powered on at roughly the same time as the NonStop system consoles or CLIMs that are providing the Bootp services, see “Startup Problems Resulting from a Power Outage” (page 7).
system is being powered on at roughly the same time as the NonStop system consoles or CLIMs that are providing the Bootp services. • If a NonStop BladeSystem does not start after power has been restored, it is most likely because the system tried to access the HSS file before the system consoles or CLIMs on which the file is located were available.
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