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ClearView IPMI 1.0
User's Guide
for V7000 Chassis and
V7100S Blade Management
ClearCube Technology, Inc.

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  • Page 1 ClearView IPMI 1.0 User’s Guide for V7000 Chassis and V7100S Blade Management ClearCube Technology, Inc.
  • Page 2 ClearCube Technology, Inc. This information is subject to change without notice and ClearCube shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with the use of this material.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents 1. Overview ... 1 2. Login and Blade System ... 2 2.1. Blade System View ... 5 2.2. Blade UI ... 8 2.3. Power Supply UI ... 10 2.4. Gigabit Switch UI ... 12 2.5. CMM UI ... 16 2.6.

  • Page 4: Overview

    ClearView IPMI monitors and reports on the status of a V7100 system, including the blade server, power supply, gigabit switch, InfiniBand and CMM modules. ClearView IPMI shows the V7000 and V7100 in a GUI for easy management, enabling administrators to monitor the status of each blade module. ClearView IPMI also supports remote KVM and virtual media.

  • Page 5: Login And Blade System

    CMM. The slave CMM is also operating when the V7000 is turned on. It will take the role of master CMM if the original master CMM is reset or hangs. By the way, once slave CMM take over master, the master CMM will become the slave CMM.
  • Page 6 Once you login successfully, the Blade System tab is displayed. This is the main system management UI (User Interface), as shown in Figure 1-3. Blade System View Module UI Figure 1-3. Blade System UI (User Interface) The upper window displays the status of all blades being monitored. Any changes to the V7100S will be reflected in this view.
  • Page 7 Figure 1-4. Detached Module UI Window...

  • Page 8: Blade System View

    1.1. Blade System View As shown in Figure 2-1, the Blade System View provides an overview of the V7000 and V7100S system. There are four sections in the Blade System View: Summary: Shows a summary of failures and how many of each type of module have been installed.
  • Page 9 Figure 2-4. Legend Help Chassis LED: Figure 2-5 shows the Chassis LED section, which displays the Power and Error LEDs for the V7000 chassis. The Power LED shows the current Blade System power status. The Error LED indicates a system over temperature or fan failure condition.
  • Page 10 Figure 2-5. Chassis LED and Legend Help View Option: This option allows a user to choose to show or hide the module status, picture and number. Figure 2-6 and Figure 2-7 show the results of two different sets of View Options checked.

  • Page 11: Blade Ui

    1.2. Blade UI Click on a blade module. The Blade UI as shown in Figure 2-9 will appear in the Module UI section at the bottom of the screen. It contains the following: Status Power Status: Shows the current power status. Indications include power on, power off and power fail status.
  • Page 12 Power Control Power On: Click to power on the blade. Reset: Click to reset the blade. Graceful Shutdown: Click to perform a graceful shutdown on the blade. Power Down: Click to power down the blade. Figure 2-11. Power Control Buttons Sensors As seen in Figure 2-12, the title of the sensor table displays the blade motherboard.

  • Page 13: Power Supply Ui

    1.3. Power Supply UI Clicking on a power supply module displays the Power Supply UI in the Module UI, in Figure 2-13. This UI includes the following: Status Power Status: This shows the current power status: either power on, power off or power failure.
  • Page 14 icon numbered 1 and to maximum speed by clicking the icon numbered 4. The icons numbered 2 and 3 are for incremental increases between the minimum and maximum settings. After changing the fan speed, you should see the fan rpm change in the status screen.

  • Page 15: Gigabit Switch Ui

    1.4. Gigabit Switch UI Clicking on a gigabit switch module will display the gigabit switch UI as shown in Figure 2-17. This UI includes the following: Status Power Status: This shows the current power status of the selected gigabit switch: power on or power off.
  • Page 16 Temperature As shown in Figure 2-19, this shows the current gigabit switch temperature. Figure 2-19. Gigabit Switch Temperature Voltage As shown in Figure 2-20, this shows the current gigabit switch voltage levels for the 1.25V and 2.5V voltages. Figure 2-20. Gigabit Switch Voltages WebSuperSmart Configuration WebSuperSmart is a web interface used to manage the gigabit switch (see Figure 2-21).
  • Page 17 Figure 2-23. Username and Password Reset NOTE: The gigabit Pass Thru module has the same UI (shown in Figure 2-24) with the gigabit switch beside the WebSuperSmart configuration and Error LED. They share the same position in the V7000 enclosure.
  • Page 18 Figure 2-24. GB Pass Thru UI...

  • Page 19: Cmm Ui

    IP: This shows the CMM IP address. Master/Slave: This shows the CMM master/slave status. A master CMM has full management of the V7000. A slave CMM is a backup to the master CMM. Status: This shows the CMM status. Firmware Version: This shows the CMM firmware version.
  • Page 20 NOTE: Daylight savings time cannot be automatically adjusted. Manually set up the UTC offset twice a year to compensate for daylight savings time. Figure 2-26. CMM Time Setting Command and Information Reset: Click to reset the CMM. Once reset is clicked, ClearView IPMI will automatically close the session.
  • Page 21 Figure 2-28. CMM Web Management Interface Slave CMM As shown in Figure 2-29, clicking on the Slave CMM gives you less information on the CMM. Only IP, Master/Slave and Status information is shown. Figure 2-29. Slave CMM...

  • Page 22: Infiniband Ui

    1.6. InfiniBand UI Clicking on one of InfiniBand modules will have the InfiniBand UI appear, as shown in Figure 2-30. This UI includes the following: Status Power Status: This shows the current InfiniBand power status: power on or power off. Initialized: This indicates that the InfiniBand has been initialized.
  • Page 23 Voltage and Temperature Figure 2-32 shows the readout of the current InfiniBand voltages and temperature. Specifically, these are VVDD, 3.3V Aux, 1.2V, 1.8V, 3.3V and board temperature. Figure 2-32. InfiniBand Temperature and Voltages...

  • Page 24: Failure Summary Ui

    The Failure Summary, as shown in Figure 2-33, is a list of failures that occurred in the V7000 system. The failure table shows the failure level, source, item, detail and side info of the failure item. The failure location shows the exact module and position.

  • Page 25: Power Supply Summary Ui

    Figure 2-34. Blade Summary 1.9. Power Supply Summary UI The Power Supply Summary, as shown in Figure 2-35, gives an overview of all installed power supplies. User can see the all power supply fan and temperature status in a single view. It is useful to observe the blade system cooling status. Power Consumption gives an estimation of power (wattage) use.

  • Page 26: Gigabit Switch Summary Ui

    1.10. Gigabit Switch Summary UI The Gigabit Switch Summary, as shown in Figure 2-36, gives an overview of up to two installed gigabit switch (or GB pass thru) modules. Here, a user can see all the voltages, temperatures and switch status in a single view. Clicking the Web Management button will open a browser that is linked directly to the WSS IP.

  • Page 27: Text Console

    Click Stop to stop the text console. NOTE: If you start a blade text console session from the CMM on a V7000 that contains an IPMI card, you cannot type in the text console. To type in a blade’s text console, you must start the text console directly from the blade rather than from the CMM.
  • Page 28 When a blade is in a power on status (for example: ), a dialog box as shown in Figure 3-2 will appear when clicking on the power button. Here, the user can select which type of power control they want to perform: reset, graceful shutdown and power down.

  • Page 29: Kvm Console And Optimizing Keyboard And Mouse Settings

    4. KVM Console and Optimizing Keyboard and Mouse Settings The KVM Console provides a remote desktop for the user. This feature allows the user to manipulate a blade’s UI remotely. As shown in Figure 4-1, The KVM Console Tab has the blade power and KVM control panels as well. These offer the same functions as those in the Text Console tab.
  • Page 30 Figure 4-2. Keyboard/Mouse Setting Keyboard Model: Click the arrow for the pull-down menu to specify the type of keyboard. Key Release Timeout: Check this box to enable the Key Release Timeout function, which will set a time limit for a key being pressed by the user. Timeout: If the Key Release Timeout option is enabled, click the arrow to select the timeout setting in the pull-down menu.

  • Page 31: Event Log

    5. Event Log The V7000 logs system events in the standard IPMI format. To see the event log (as shown in Figure 5-1), click the Event Log tab. At first, only SEL information will be loaded, which consists of Total Entries, SEL Version, Free Space, Recent Entry Added and Recent Entry Erased.

  • Page 32: Logon Management

    6. Logon Management The Logon Management tab is shown in Figure 6-1. Here, a maximum of 63 user accounts can be listed. Click the Get User ( user list. Each user has a Username, a Privilege Level and an Enable field. The Privilege Level will be one of the following: Administrator: full functions supported Operator: full functions supported but no logon management function...
  • Page 33 user will then be listed in the table, as shown in Figure 6-3. Figure 6-2. Add New User Dialog Box Figure 6-3. Creating a New User Named myUser To delete a user, select a user in the user list table and click the Delete ( button.
  • Page 34 to verify. Once the username and password are verified, the dialog box shown in Figure 6-5 is displayed. Otherwise, a failure message is displayed, as shown in Figure 6-6. Figure 6-4. Verify Login Figure 6-5. Successful Login Figure 6-6. Failed Login...

  • Page 35: Virtual Media

    7. Virtual Media As shown in Figure 7-1, the CMM module supports the use of two virtual drives. The function is the same as with a SIM IPMI device. See “Virtual Media” in ClearView IPMI User’s Guide for more information. NOTE: The virtual drive in the CMM module will be dedicated to the KVM selected blade.

  • Page 36: Cmm Setting

    8. CMM Setting The CMM Setting tab provides the LAN configuration, SNMP setting and CMM information (Figure 8-1). The LAN Configuration shows the current CMM IP address, Gateway and Subnet Mask. The CMM IP type can be set as a DHCP or static address. The SNMP setting lets you specify the SNMP destination address to receive the SNMP trap from the CMM.

  • Page 37: Connecting To The Slave Cmm

    9. Connecting to the Slave CMM If you have installed two CMMs in one Blade System, one CMM should be assigned as the master CMM and the other as the slave CMM. You should connect to the master CMM for full-function management. However, you may also connect to the slave CMM for event log checking, Logon Management and CMM settings.
  • Page 38 ClearCube Technology, Inc. 8834 Capital of Texas Highway North Austin, TX 78759 512.652.3500 www.clearcube.com P/N G0400073 Rev A...

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