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BladeCenter Type 8677: Installation and User's Guide
Power/restart
Select this choice to perform the following actions on any blade
server in the BladeCenter unit:
v Turn on or turn off the selected blade server (set the power state
on or off).
v Enable or disable local power control. When local power control
is enabled, a local user can turn on or turn off the blade server
by pressing the power-control button on the blade server.
v Enable or disable the Wake on LAN feature.
v Restart the blade server or the service processor in the blade
server.
Select the blade servers you want to perform an action on; then,
click the appropriate link below the table for the action you want to
perform.
Remote control
Select this choice to:
v View the current owners of the keyboard, monitor, and mouse
(KVM), and of the CD-ROM drive, diskette drive, and USB port
(Media tray).
v View the details of any remote control session currently active
(user ID, client IP address, start time).
v Redirect a blade server console to the remote console. On the
remote console, you can:
– Disable local switching of the KVM and of the media tray for
all blade servers until explicitly enabled again. This prevents a
local user from switching the console display to a different
blade server while you are performing tasks.
– Change the owner of the KVM and of the media tray.
– View the current blade server display.
– Control the blade server as if you were at the local console,
including restarting the blade server and viewing the POST
process, with full keyboard and mouse control.
Notes:
1. Only one remote control session is allowed at a time. If a
remote control session is already active, you can end the
current session and start a new one.
2. The timeout value for a remote control session is the same as
the timeout value that you set for the Web session when you
logged in.
3. When you redirect a blade server Linux X Window System
session console to the remote console, the ability of the remote
console applet to accurately track the location of the mouse
cursor depends on the configuration of X-Windows. Complete
the following procedure to configure the X Window System for
accurate mouse tracking. Type the commands through the
remote console or at the keyboard attached to the BladeCenter
unit. Note that the changes require root privileges.
a. Enter the following commands:
init 3 (Switch to text mode if necessary)
rmmod mousedev (Unload the mouse driver module)
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