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Dell Chassis Management
Controller Firmware
Version 4.0
User’s Guide
Notes and Cautions
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Contents 3
Contents
1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
What’s New For This Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
CMC Management Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chassis Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Hardware Specifications
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
TCP/IP Ports
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Supported Remote Access Connections . . . . . . . . 26
Supported Platforms
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Supported Web Browsers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Supported Management Console Applications
. . . . . 27
WS-Management Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Other Documents You May Need
. . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2 Installing and Setting Up the CMC . . . . . 31
Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing the CMC Hardware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Checklist for Integration of a Chassis
. . . . . . . 32
Basic CMC Network Connection
. . . . . . . . . . 33
4 Contents
Daisy-chain CMC Network Connection . . . . . . 33
Installing Remote Access Software on a
Management Station
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing RACADM on a Linux
Management Station
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Uninstalling RACADM From a Linux
Management Station
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Configuring a Web Browser
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Proxy Server
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Microsoft Phishing Filter
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Fetching . . . . . 40
Downloading Files From CMC With
Internet Explorer
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Allow Animations in Internet Explorer . . . . . . . 41
Setting Up Initial Access to the CMC . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring the CMC Network
. . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring Networking Using the
LCD Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Accessing the CMC Through a Network
. . . . . . . . 50
Installing or Updating the CMC Firmware
. . . . . . . . 51
Downloading the CMC Firmware
. . . . . . . . . . 51
Updating CMC Firmware Using the
Web Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Updating the CMC Firmware Using RACADM . . . 52
Configuring CMC Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Configuring Power Budgeting
. . . . . . . . . . . 53
Configuring CMC Network Settings
. . . . . . . . 53
Adding and Configuring Users
. . . . . . . . . . . 54
Adding SNMP and E-mail Alerts
. . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring Remote Syslog
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Contents 5
Understanding the Redundant CMC Environment. . . . 55
About the Standby CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
CMC Failsafe Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Active CMC Election Process
. . . . . . . . . . . 57
Obtaining Health Status of Redundant CMC
. . . . 57
3 Configuring CMC to Use Command
Line Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Command Line Console Features on the CMC . . . . . 59
Using a Serial, Telnet, or SSH Console
. . . . . . . . . 60
Using a Telnet Console With the CMC
. . . . . . . . . 60
Using SSH With the CMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Enabling SSH on the CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Changing the SSH Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Enabling the Front Panel to iKVM Connection
. . . 63
Configuring Terminal Emulation Software
. . . . . . . 63
Configuring Linux Minicom
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Connecting to Servers or I/O Modules With
the Connect Command
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring the Managed Server BIOS
for Serial Console Redirection
. . . . . . . . . . . 67
Configuring Windows for Serial Console
Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Configuring Linux for Server Serial Console
Redirection During Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Configuring Linux for Server Serial Console
Redirection After Boot
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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4 Using the RACADM Command Line
Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using a Serial, Telnet, or SSH Console . . . . . . . . . 73
Logging in to the CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Starting a Text Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Using RACADM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
RACADM Subcommands
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Accessing RACADM Remotely . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Enabling and Disabling the RACADM
Remote Capability
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Using RACADM Remotely. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
RACADM Error Messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Using RACADM to Configure the CMC
. . . . . . . . . . 81
Configuring CMC Network Properties. . . . . . . . . . 81
Setting Up Initial Access to the CMC
. . . . . . . . 82
Viewing Current Network Settings . . . . . . . . . 83
Configuring the Network LAN Settings
. . . . . . . 83
Configuring the Network Security
Settings (IPv4 Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Using RACADM to Configure Users
. . . . . . . . . . . 91
Adding a CMC User
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Using RACADM to Configure Public Key
Authentication over SSH
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Generating Public Keys for Windows
. . . . . . . . 94
Generating Public Keys for Linux
. . . . . . . . . . 95
RACADM Syntax Notes for CMC
. . . . . . . . . . 95
Viewing the Public Keys
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Adding the Public Keys
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Deleting the Public Keys
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Logging in Using Public Key Authentication
. . . . 96
Contents 7
Enabling a CMC User With Permissions . . . . . . 97
Disabling a CMC User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Configuring SNMP and E-mail Alerting . . . . . . . . . 98
Configuring Multiple CMCs in Multiple Chassis
. . . . 98
Creating a CMC Configuration File
. . . . . . . . . 99
Parsing Rules
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Modifying the CMC IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . 103
Using RACADM to Configure Properties
on iDRAC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5 Using the CMC Web Interface. . . . . . . . 109
Accessing the CMC Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Logging In
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Logging Out
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configuring Basic CMC Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Setting the Chassis Physical Location
and Chassis Name
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Setting the Date and Time on CMC
. . . . . . . . . 112
Enabling Removable Flash Media
. . . . . . . . . 113
Chassis Health Page
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using Chassis Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Chassis Group Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Setting up a Chassis Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Removing a Member from the Leader
. . . . . . . 116
Disbanding a Chassis Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Disabling an Individual Member at the
Member Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
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Launching a Member Chassis’s or
Server’s web page
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Synchronizing a New Member With
Leader Chassis Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Blade Inventory for MCM group . . . . . . . . . 119
Saving the Blade Inventory Report
. . . . . . . . 119
Chassis Component Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chassis Graphics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Chassis Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Selected Component Information
. . . . . . . . . . . 124
Monitoring System Health Status . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Viewing Chassis and Component
Summaries
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Viewing Power Budget Status
. . . . . . . . . . 131
Viewing Server Model Name and
Service Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Viewing the Health Status of All Servers
. . . . . 131
Editing Slot Names
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Using Server’s Host Name as the Slot Name. . . 136
Setting the First Boot Device for Servers
. . . . . 136
Viewing the Health Status of an
Individual Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Viewing the Health Status of IOMs
. . . . . . . . 145
Viewing the Health Status of the Fans . . . . . . 146
Viewing the iKVM Status
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Viewing the Health Status of the PSUs
. . . . . . 149
Viewing Status of the Temperature Sensors . . . 151
Viewing the LCD Status
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Viewing World Wide Name/Media Access Control
(WWN/MAC) IDs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Fabric Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Contents 9
WWN/MAC Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Configuring CMC Network Properties
. . . . . . . . . 155
Setting Up Initial Access to CMC
. . . . . . . . . . 155
Configuring the Network LAN Settings
. . . . . . . 156
Configuring CMC Network Security Settings . . . 163
Configuring VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Adding and Configuring CMC Users
. . . . . . . . . . . 166
User Types
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Adding and Managing Users
. . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Configuring and Managing Microsoft
Active Directory Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Common Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Standard Schema Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Extended Schema Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Managing Active Directory Certificates
. . . . . . . . 180
Kerberos Keytab
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Configuring and Managing Generic
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Services
. . . 182
Selecting Your LDAP Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Managing LDAP Group Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Managing LDAP Security Certificates
. . . . . . . . . 185
Securing CMC Communications Using SSL
and Digital Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
. . . . . . . . . 187
Accessing the SSL Main Menu
. . . . . . . . . . 188
Generating a New Certificate
Signing Request
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
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Uploading a Server Certificate . . . . . . . . . . 192
Uploading Webserver Key and Certificate . . . . 192
Viewing a Server Certificate
. . . . . . . . . . . 193
Managing Sessions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Configuring Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Configuring Power Budgeting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Managing Firmware Updates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Viewing the Current Firmware Versions
. . . . . 205
Updating Firmware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Recovering iDRAC Firmware Using CMC
. . . . . 211
Updating Server Component Firmware
Using Lifecycle Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Managing iDRAC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
iDRAC QuickDeploy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
iDRAC Network Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Launching Remote Console from CMC GUI
. . . . 229
Launching iDRAC using Single Sign-On . . . . . 230
Server Cloning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Capture Profile
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Apply Profile
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
View BIOS Settings on Server
. . . . . . . . . . 233
Manage Stored Profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Recent Profile Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Completion Status and Troubleshooting
. . . . . 234
FlexAddress
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Viewing FlexAddress Status
. . . . . . . . . . . 234
Configuring FlexAddress
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Chassis-Level Fabric and Slot FlexAddress
Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Contents 11
Server-Level Slot FlexAddress Configuration . . . 240
Remote File Sharing
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Frequently Asked Questions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Troubleshooting CMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
6 Using FlexAddress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Activating FlexAddress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Verifying FlexAddress Activation
. . . . . . . . . . 250
Deactivating FlexAddress
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Deactivating FlexAddress
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Configuring FlexAddress Using the CLI . . . . . . . . . 252
Additional FlexAddress Configuration
for Linux
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Viewing FlexAddress Status Using the CLI . . . . . . . 254
Configuring FlexAddress Using the GUI
. . . . . . . . . 254
Wake-On-LAN with FlexAddress
. . . . . . . . . . 254
Troubleshooting FlexAddress
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Command Messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
FlexAddress DELL SOFTWARE LICENSE
AGREEMENT
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Frequently Asked Questions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
7 Using FlexAddress Plus. . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Activating FlexAddress Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
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FlexAddress vs FlexAddress Plus . . . . . . . . . . . 266
8 Using the CMC Directory Service . . . . . 267
Using CMC with Microsoft Active Directory . . . . . 267
Active Directory Schema Extensions
. . . . . . . 267
Standard Schema Versus Extended
Schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Standard Schema Active Directory Overview. . . . . 268
Configuring Standard Schema Active Directory
to Access CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Configuring CMC With Standard Schema
Active Directory and Web Interface
. . . . . . . 270
Configuring CMC With Standard Schema
Active Directory and RACADM . . . . . . . . . . 273
Extended Schema Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Active Directory Schema Extensions
. . . . . . . 274
Overview of the RAC Schema Extensions
. . . . 275
Active Directory Object Overview . . . . . . . . 275
Configuring Extended Schema Active Directory
to Access Your CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Extending the Active Directory Schema . . . . . 280
Installing the Dell Extension to the
Active Directory Users and Computers
Snap-In
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Adding CMC Users and Privileges to
Active Directory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Configuring CMC With Extended Schema
Active Directory and the Web Interface . . . . . 290
Configuring CMC With Extended Schema
Active Directory and RACADM . . . . . . . . . . 293
Frequently Asked Questions
. . . . . . . . . . . 295
Configuring Single Sign-On
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Contents 13
System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Configuring Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Configuring Active Directory
. . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Configuring CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Uploading the Kerberos Keytab File . . . . . . . . 300
Enabling Single Sign-On
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Configuring the Browser For
Single Sign-On Login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Logging into CMC Using Single Sign-On
. . . . . . 303
Configuring Smart Card Two-Factor
Authentication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Configuring Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Configuring Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Configuring CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Uploading the Kerberos Keytab File
. . . . . . . . 305
Enabling Smart Card Authentication . . . . . . . . 306
Configuring the Browser For Smart Card
Login
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Logging into CMC Using Smart Card . . . . . . . . 307
Troubleshooting the Smart Card Login
. . . . . . . 308
Using CMC with Generic LDAP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Configuring the Generic LDAP Directory
to Access CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Configuring Generic LDAP Directory Service
Using CMC Web-Based Interface . . . . . . . . . 310
Selecting Your LDAP Servers
. . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Managing LDAP Group Settings . . . . . . . . . . 313
Managing LDAP Security Certificates
. . . . . . . 313
Configuring Generic LDAP Directory Service
Using RACADM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Usage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Getting Help
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
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9 Power Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
AC Redundancy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Power Supply Redundancy Mode
. . . . . . . . 319
No Redundancy Mode
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Power Budgeting for Hardware Modules . . . . 321
Server Slot Power Priority Settings
. . . . . . . . 324
Dynamic Power Supply Engagement
. . . . . . . 325
Redundancy Policies
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
AC Redundancy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Power Supply Redundancy
. . . . . . . . . . . . 327
No Redundancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Power Conservation and Power Budget
Changes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Power Supply and Redundancy Policy
Changes in System Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . 335
Redundancy Status and Overall
Power Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Configuring and Managing Power. . . . . . . . . . . 337
Viewing the Health Status of the PSUs
. . . . . . 337
Viewing Power Consumption Status
. . . . . . . 340
Viewing Power Budget Status
. . . . . . . . . . 344
Configuring Power Budget and
Redundancy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Assigning Priority Levels to Servers
. . . . . . . 355
Setting the Power Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Server Power Reduction to Maintain
Power Budget
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Executing Power Control Operations
on the Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Executing Power Control Operations
on an IOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Executing Power Control Operations
on a Server
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Contents 15
External Power Management . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Using RACADM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
10 Using the iKVM Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
iKVM User Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Security
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Scanning
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Server Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Video
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Plug and Play
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
FLASH Upgradable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Physical Connection Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
iKVM Connection Precedences
. . . . . . . . . . 369
Tiering Through the ACI Connection . . . . . . . . 369
Using OSCAR
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Navigation Basics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Configuring OSCAR
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Managing Servers With iKVM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Peripherals Compatibility and Support
. . . . . . . 374
Viewing and Selecting Servers
. . . . . . . . . . . 374
Setting Console Security
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
Scanning Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
Broadcasting to Servers
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Managing iKVM From CMC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Enabling or Disabling the Front Panel
. . . . . . . 387
Enabling the Dell CMC Console
Through iKVM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
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Viewing the iKVM Status and Properties . . . . . 388
Updating the iKVM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
11 I/O Fabric Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Fabric Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Invalid Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
Invalid Mezzanine Card (MC) Configuration
. . . 400
Invalid IOM-Mezzanine Card (MC)
Configuration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Invalid IOM-IOM Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 400
Fresh Power-up Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Monitoring IOM Health
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Viewing the Health Status of an
Individual IOM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
Configuring Network Settings for an
Individual IOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
Troubleshooting IOM Network Settings . . . . . 408
12 Troubleshooting and Recovery . . . . . . . 409
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Chassis Monitoring Tools
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Gathering Configuration information and
Chassis Status and Logs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Usage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Supported Interfaces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
CLI RACDUMP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Remote RACDUMP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
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Remote RACDUMP Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
Telnet RACDUMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Configuring LEDs to Identify Components
on the Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Configuring SNMP Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
Downloading SNMP Management
Information Base (MIB) File
. . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
First Steps to Troubleshooting a Remote System . . . . 424
Monitoring Power and Executing Power Control
Commands on the Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Viewing Power Budget Status
. . . . . . . . . . . 425
Executing a Power Control Operation . . . . . . . 425
Power Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Managing Lifecycle Controller jobs on a
remote system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Viewing Chassis Summaries
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Viewing Chassis and Component Health Status
. . . . 434
Viewing the Event Logs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Viewing the Hardware Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Viewing the CMC Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
Using the Diagnostic Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Resetting Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Troubleshooting Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Errors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Interpreting LED Colors and Blinking Patterns
. . . . . 445
Troubleshooting a Non-responsive CMC
. . . . . . . . 448
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Observing the LEDs to Isolate the Problem. . . . 448
Obtain Recovery Information From the
DB-9 Serial Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449
Recovering the Firmware Image
. . . . . . . . . 450
Troubleshooting Network Problems
. . . . . . . . . . 451
Resetting Forgotten Administrator Password
. . . . . 451
Saving and Restoring Chassis Configuration
Settings and Certificates
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
Troubleshooting Alerting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
13 Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Using the LCD Panel Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
LCD Navigation
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Main Menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 458
LCD Setup Menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Language Setup Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Default Screen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Graphical Server Status Screen
. . . . . . . . . 460
Graphical Module Status Screen. . . . . . . . . 461
Enclosure Menu Screen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
Module Status Screen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Enclosure Status Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
IP Summary Screen
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
LCD Hardware Troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . . . 463
Front Panel LCD Messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
LCD Error Messages
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
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