HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM Card Installation Guide HP Part Number: AD307-9002A Published: September 2007 Edition: 1
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About This Document This document provides installation instructions for the HP Lights Out Advanced / KVM card for sx2000–based HP Integrity servers. Intended Audience This document is intended for system administrators responsible for installing PCI accessory cards in HP servers. Adminstrators are expected to have knowledge of electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety precautions and procedures for safely shutting down nPartitions and powering off PCI power domains. This document is not a tutorial.
1 Overview The Lights Out Advanced / KVM Card (LOA) is a PCI-X card that you install into any sx2000–based HP Integrity server. The LOA card enables the advanced virtual graphical console (known as vKVM, for virtual keyboard, video and mouse) and virtual CD/DVD/ISO image file (known as vMedia) features of the Integrity Lights Out Management Processor (known as the iLO MP).
2 Installing an HP Lights Out Advanced / KVM Card in a Server The HP Lights Out Advanced / KVM card can be installed into any mode-1 slot in a PCI-X backplane, or any mode-1 PCI-X slot in a PCI-X/PCIe backplane. CAUTION: Observe all electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety precautions before attempting this procedure. Failure to follow ESD safety precautions could cause damage to the server. CAUTION: You cannot add or replace an HP Lights Out Advanced / KVM card while the nPartition is running.
Figure 2-1 PCI-X or PCI-X/PCIe Cardcage (Common to all Supported Servers) (1) PCI-X/PCIe Cards (2) PCI-X or PCI-X/PCIe Backplane IMPORTANT: You must connect the LAN port on the HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card to the same network as the management processor LAN port on the server. To install the HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card, perform the following steps: 1. Shut down the nPartition and power-off the appropriate PCI power domain. 2.
3 Troubleshooting General Troubleshooting The following table lists some possible problems with your HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card, and provides some suggested solutions. Problem Solutions Graphics error: Black screen. No text is displayed. Hardware problem: • Must have supported power enabled. • Must have a functional mode-1 PCI-X slot. Try selecting another mode-1 slot on same partition/backplane. • Must have the card firmly seated in PCI-X/PCI-Xe backplane slot. • Must have a supported monitor.
one core I/O card and one HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card, the HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card must be installed in I/O chassis 0. For rx7640 or rx8640 servers with two core I/O cards, the HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card can be installed in either I/O chassis (with only one HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card per partition). The following table lists examples of unsupported core I/O card configurations with the HP Lights-Out Advanced / KVM card and possible solutions.
