Table Of Contents - IBM Netfinity 5100 User Reference Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Chapter 1.Introducing the IBM Netfinity
5100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What your IBM Netfinity 5100 offers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features . . . . 5
Server controls and indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Starting the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Operator information panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2.Arranging your workspace . . . 11
Comfort. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Glare and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Air circulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Electrical outlets and cable lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Chapter 3.Configuring your server . . . . . 13
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . 13
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program 13
Choices available from the Configuration/Setup main
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Power-on password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Administrator password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using the SCSISelect utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Starting the SCSISelect utility program . . . . . . . . . . 20
Choices available from the SCSISelect menu . . . . . 20
Chapter 4.Using the ServerGuide CDs . . 23
Features at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setup and Configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
System Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Network operating system (NOS) installation overview .
26
Setting up multiple servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing your NOS without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 26
Additional programs included with ServerGuide . . . . 27
NOS updates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Installing applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Error symptoms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Chapter 5.Using the Netfinity Manager
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Managing your IBM Netfinity server with Netfinity
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Netfinity Manager documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Netfinity Manager system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Netfinity Manager for OS/2 system requirements . 30
Netfinity Manager for Windows 95 and Windows 98
system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Netfinity Manager for Windows NT system
requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Starting the Netfinity Manager installation program . 32
Netfinity Manager database support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
DB2 database support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing and configuring the database . . . . . . . 39
Activating the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Granting and revoking database privileges . . . . 40
Deleting the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Lotus Notes database support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Browsing the Netfinity Manager Lotus Notes
database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ODBC database support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ODBC database configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating the Netfinity Manager tables . . . . . . . . 46
Supported and certified databases . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Starting Netfinity Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Netfinity Manager Service Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Netfinity Manager service descriptions . . . . . . . . . . 50
Advanced System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Alert Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Alert on LAN configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Capacity Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Cluster Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Critical File Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
DMI Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
ECC Memory Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Event Scheduler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
File Transfer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Power-On Error Detect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Predictive Failure Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Process Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
RAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Remote Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Remote System Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Remote Workstation Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Screen View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Security Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Serial Connection Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Service Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Software Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Diagnostics Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Information Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Partition Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Update Connector Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Web Manager Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Delaying Netfinity Manager startup on OS/2 systems
55
Getting more information about Netfinity Manager . . 55
Installation options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Automated installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Customized installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 6.Installing Options. . . . . . . . . . . 61
Major components of the Netfinity 5100 server . . . . . . 61
System board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
System board options connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
System board internal cable connectors . . . . . . . . . . 64
System board external port connectors . . . . . . . . . . 65
System board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
System board LED locations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69