Cabling The Serial (Com) Port; Updating The Remote Supervisor Adapter Firmware - IBM IntelliStation R Pro Hardware Maintenance Manual

Cabling the serial (COM) port

Updating the Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware

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Hardware Maintenance Manual: xSeries 330 Type 8674 and IntelliStation R Pro Type 6851
Ethernet activity
The green Ethernet activity LED is flashing when there is Ethernet
activity.
If you plan to use the serial port connection, continue with "Cabling the serial
(COM) port"; otherwise, go to "Updating the Remote Supervisor Adapter
firmware".
To cable the serial (COM) port, connect a modem or null modem cable to the serial
port on the Remote Supervisor Adapter.
Continue with "Updating the Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware".
You can use the IBM Remote Supervisor Utility program to check the firmware level
on the Remote Supervisor Adapter and to update the firmware. This Utility program
is a DOS utility on the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter Support CD that comes with the
Remote Supervisor Adapter. You can obtain the latest firmware code from the IBM
Support Web site, http://www.ibm.com/pc/support.
After you initially configure the Remote Supervisor Adapter to enable remote access
through a Web connection, you can update the Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware
using the ASM Web interface. The procedures to initially configure the Remote
Supervisor Adapter for remote access are described later in this chapter.
For information about using the ASM Web interface to monitor your server, see the
IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter User's Guide for the xSeries 330, which is available in
Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) on the IBM Documentation CD.
To update the Remote Supervisor Adapter firmware, complete the following steps:
1. Turn on the server.
2. Insert the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter Support CD into the CD-ROM drive and
close the CD-ROM drive before the server completes power-on self-test (POST).
Note: If you do not insert the CD and close the CD-ROM drive before POST
completes, you must restart the server with the CD in the CD-ROM drive.
3. The CD starts automatically and the IBM Remote Supervisor Utility window
opens.