Chapter 1. Introduction - IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module Installation Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

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This Installation Guide contains information about installing your IBM
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BladeCenter Advanced Management Module. This Installation Guide provides
the following information:
v Chapter 2, "External indicators, controls, and connectors," on page 7
v Chapter 3, "Installing a management module," on page 11
v Chapter 4, "Configuring the management module," on page 25
The advanced management module is a hot-swap BladeCenter module that
you use to configure and manage all installed BladeCenter components. The
advanced management module provides system-management functions and
keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) multiplexing for all the blade servers in the
BladeCenter unit that support KVM. It controls a serial port for remote
connection; the external keyboard, mouse, and video connections for use by a
local console; and a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet remote-management connection.
The advanced management module is referred to throughout this document as
the management module.
All BladeCenter units come with at least one management module. Some
BladeCenter units support management-module redundancy. Only one
management module can be active in each BladeCenter unit. If you install a
standby management module, it remains inactive until it is switched to act as
the active management module.
If two management modules are installed in a BladeCenter unit, both must
always have the same level of firmware and the same IP address. The
firmware must support redundant management-module function, to ensure
changeover of control from the active management module to the standby
management module. The latest level of management-module firmware is
available at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
The service processor in the management module communicates with the
service processor in each blade server to support features such as blade-server
power-on requests, error and event reporting, KVM requests, and requests to
use the BladeCenter shared media tray (removable-media drives and USB
connector).
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