Troubleshooting Tips for Powering On NonStop BladeSystems

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. HP recommends that the service
providers check for, and implement if necessary, these new settings:
• For server blades in all existing NonStop BladeSystems shipped before J06.10.
• When adding a c7000 enclosure to a NonStop BladeSystem.
• When replacing a server blade in a NonStop BladeSystem.
The procedure for performing these configuration changes, available for service providers only,
can be found in Configuring NonStop BladeSystems to Avoid System Startup Problems (located in the
Service Information collection in the NonStop Technical Library).
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