Installation Manual

16 Contents
Disabling the Automatic Reboot Option in
Windows Server 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Configuring Platform Events
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)
. . . . . 315
Configuring PET
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Configuring E-Mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Testing E-mail Alerting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature
. . . . 320
Frequently Asked Question about SNMP A
uthentication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
19 Recovering and Troubleshooting
the Managed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System . . . . . 323
Managing Power on a Remote System
. . . . . . . . 324
Selecting Power Control Actions from
the iDRAC6 Web-Based Interface
. . . . . . . . 324
Selecting Power Control Actions from
the iDRAC6 CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Viewing System Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Main System Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Remote Access Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . 327
System Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Using the System Event Log (SEL)
. . . . . . . . . . . 331
Using the Command Line to View
System Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Using the Work Notes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Using the POST Boot Logs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334