Table Of Contents - IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II User Manual

Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Remote Supervisor Adapter II features
Web browser and operating-system requirements
Notices used in this book
Chapter 2. Opening and using the Web interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Logging in to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Remote Supervisor Adapter II action descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 3. Configuring the Remote Supervisor Adapter II . . . . . . . . 11
Setting system information
Creating a login profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Configuring the global login settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Configuring remote alert settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Configuring the serial connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring the dual serial connectors for serial redirection . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring port assignments
Configuring network interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Configuring network protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
TCP Command Mode Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Service Location Protocol (SLP)
Secure Web server and secure LDAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Configuring the Secure Shell server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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Setting server timeouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Synchronizing clocks in a network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Disabling the USB device driver interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Configuring remote alert recipients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Forwarding alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Setting remote alert attempts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting remote alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting local events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Serial-to-serial redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Serial-to-Telnet redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configuring the command-line interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Configuring an Ethernet connection to the Remote Supervisor Adapter II
Configuring PPP access over a serial connection . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Configuring SMTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setting up a client to use the LDAP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring the LDAP client authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring the LDAP search attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SSL certificate overview
SSL server certificate management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Enabling SSL for the secure Web server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SSL client certificate management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SSL client trusted certificate management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Enabling SSL for the LDAP client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Generating a Secure Shell server key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Enabling the Secure Shell server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using the Secure Shell server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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