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Downloading device drivers and firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing a supported version of Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing the Cluster System Management software . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing the General Parallel File System system-management software . . . 29
Configuring the storage nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Verifying the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Using the remote power command
Remote console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Shutting down the system components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Finding information about a lights out or brown out event . . . . . . . . . 36
Related topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 8. Troubleshooting hardware and software problems . . . . . . 37
Isolating network, node, and Linux problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Isolating hardware problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Isolating software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SNMP monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring SNMP alerts from Myrinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Resetting the Remote Supervisor Adapter card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Checking service processor logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Management, cluster, and storage node problems . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 9. Configuring the KVM switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring the console switch after device replacement
Upgrading the console switch FLASH level
Replacement of NetBAY Advanced Connectivity Technology Remote Console
Chapter 10. Using the KVM switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Saving the KVM switch settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Connecting components with the KVM switch power turned on . . . . . . . 57
Switching between nodes and the console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Installing the storage node software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Defining nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Distributing the system image to all nodes in the cluster . . . . . . . . . 33
Clustering with one network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Clustering with two networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Node checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Service processor network
Checking storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Checking the terminal server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Troubleshooting the KVM network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
File-system failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
PFA alert indicates internal disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
I/O errors in syslog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Operating-system checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CSM checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
GPFS checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Disk drive failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
System board failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
xSeries 335 problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
BladeCenter problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Power problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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