Blade Configuration - Eaton NetDirector B064-016-04-IPH Manual

OSD Operation

Blade Configuration

Blade Servers that are connected to the switches display
below the KVM switches in the Sidebar. This section describes
accessing and configuring the blade servers, and associating
the blades with KVM switch ports. By associating a blade
server or blade with a port, the servers and blades are
integrated into the Sidebar tree view and appear as devices
connected to the port.
The Blade Configuration page is where the associations
between blade servers and ports on the KVM switch get
created. To access this page, select the blade server or blade,
then click the Blade Configuration sub-section tab.
For IBM and Dell blade servers, the entire chassis gets
associated with a port, and each blade in the chassis will
appear in the tree as a child port of the associated port—as
shown by the screenshot of port 08 below.
For HP blade servers, associations are made on a blade by
blade basis. Each blade is associated with a single port. To
access a blade, click on its port entry in the tree.
Associating Ports
Device View
Port association begins by clicking the Blade Configuration
sub-section tab in the menu bar. The page comes up in
Device View, listing all of the KVM switch's ports, and the
blade servers (IBM and Dell servers), or individual blades (HP
servers) that have been associated with them.
To associate a blade server or blade with a port, follow the
steps below.
1. Select the port in the main panel.
2. Click Associate.
3. In the screen that comes up, select the blade server or
individual blade that you want to associate with the selected
port.
4. Click Save.
After the association completes successfully, the blade icon
appears next to the associated port in the Sidebar tree. To
access the device running on the blade, click on its entry in
the Sidebar tree.
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