When The Server Is Up And Running; When The Server Is Dead - American Megatrends 780 Hardware Manual

When the Server is Up and Running

When the Server is Dead

You can access any remote server using the MegaRAC
card in it via Management console. The Management
Console lets you see the remote server's graphics as well
as send commands to the server. This gives you full
control over the remote server to perform other
administrative tasks on the server.
You can also perform periodic maintenance on the server.
Using a feature known at Console Redirection Service
(CRS), you can do the following:
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reboot the system (a graceful shutdown),
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watch the boot process,
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boot to a separate system partition to load the
diagnostic environment, and
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run special diagnostic programs
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File Transfer
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Remote Flash upgrade
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Floppy Redirection
An important task for MegaRAC is getting a dead server
up and running through the DSM feature. To do this,
MegaRAC sends an alert notification to its supervisor.
Once the supervisor receives the alert, MegaRAC puts
itself into a server mode. It receives the commands from
the supervisor and performs them.
Using a feature known as Console Command Service
(CCS), MegaRAC provides a set of services to get the
server running again. These services include server reset
and complete power cycle (with the proper hardware
support) of the server. MegaRAC also captures the screen
at the time of the crash so that the supervisor can watch
and analyze the cause of the crash.
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