When The Server Is Up And Running; When The Server Is Dead - American Megatrends Express 788 Hardware Manual

When the Server is Up and Running

When the Server is Dead

6 MegaRAC™ Express Hardware Guide
You can access any remote server using the MegaRAC™
Express 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™ Express is getting a
dead server up and running through the DSM feature. To
do this, MegaRAC™ Express sends an alert notification to
its supervisor. Once the supervisor receives the alert,
MegaRAC™ Express puts itself into a server mode. It
receives the commands from the supervisor and performs
them.
MegaRAC™ Express 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™ Express also captures
the screen at the time of the crash so that the supervisor
can watch and analyze the cause of the crash.