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Automatic notification and alerts
The RSA II automatically sends various types of alerts and notifications to
another server, such as IBM Director, to an SNMP destination, or as e-mail
directly to a user by using SMTP.
Event log
You can access the event logs of the server and the power-on-self-test
(POST) log and export them while the server is running.
Remote control
The RSA II card offers full remote control, including mouse, keyboard and
video from power-up and setup and diagnostics panels, all the way through to
the operating system running as normal. In fact, combined with the remote
media function, you are able to boot the server and remotely install an
operating system from a remote media such as CD-ROM, ISO files, or floppy
images.
A connection through Windows Terminal Server can also be established if the
remote desktop software is installed and enabled.
Remote media
As a part of the remote control feature, the remote media capability lets you
use diskette drives, diskette images, optical drives (such as DVD or
CD-ROM), ISO files on your hard disk, mounted in a virtual drive or anywhere
in your network. You only have to map this network drive or file system to the
local workstation to which you have established the connection to the server.
Either way makes them appear to be local drives on the remotely managed
server.
This feature and additionally the remote control features allow you to remotely
install any operating system on your x3850 M2 and x3950 M2 without
requiring access to any resources in your network environment, or to manage
your operating system or any application. You only have to access the RSA II
Web interface.
Remote power control
The RSA II supports remote power control to power on, power off, or restart
the server with or without operating system shutdown over LAN or even a
WAN connection.
Event log
You can access the event logs of the server and the POST log and export
them while the server is up and running.
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