Systems Director; Server Controls, Leds, And Power - Lenovo System x3500 M5 Type 5464 Installation And Service Manual

• Startup (boot) from LAN through remote initial program load (RIPL) or dynamic host configuration
protocol/boot protocol (DHCP/BOOTP)
• System auto-configuring from the configuration menu
• System-error logging (POST and IMM2.1)
• Systems-management monitoring through the Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) protocol bus
• Uncorrectable error (UE) detection
• Upgradeable POST, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), diagnostics, IMM2.1 firmware, and
read-only memory (ROM) resident code, locally or over the LAN
• Vital product data (VPD) on microprocessors, system board, power supplies, and SAS/SATA (hot-swap
hard disk drive or solid state drive) backplane
• Wake on LAN capability

Systems Director

Systems Director is a platform-management foundation that streamlines the way you manage physical and
virtual systems in a heterogeneous environment. By using industry standards, Systems Director supports
multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies in Lenovo and non-Lenovo x86 platforms.
Through a single user interface, Systems Director provides consistent views for viewing managed systems,
determining how these systems relate to one other, and identifying their statuses, helping to correlate
technical resources with business needs. A set of common tasks that are included with Systems Director
provides many of the core capabilities that are required for basic management, which means instant
out-of-the-box business value. The common tasks include discovery, inventory, configuration, system
health, monitoring, updates, event notification, automation for managed systems, hardware log, power, and
light path.
The Systems Director web and command-line interfaces provide a consistent interface that is focused
on driving these common tasks and capabilities:
• Discovering, navigating, and visualizing systems on the network with the detailed inventory and
relationships to the other network resources
• Notifying users of problems that occur on systems and the ability to isolate the source of the problem
• Notifying users when systems need updates and distributing and installing updates on a schedule
• Analyzing real-time data for systems and setting critical thresholds that notify the administrator of
emerging problems
• Configuring settings of a single system and creating a configuration plan that can apply those settings to
multiple systems
• Updating installed plug-ins to add new features and functions to the base capabilities
• Managing the life cycles of virtual resources
For more information about Systems Director, see the Systems Director Information Center at
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/director/pubs/index.jsp, and the Systems Management web page at
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/solutions/, which presents an overview of Systems Management
and Systems Director.

Server controls, LEDs, and power

This section describes the controls and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and how to turn the server on and off.
For the locations of other LEDs on the system board, see "System-board LEDs and controls" on page 28.
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