Table Of Contents - IBM XSERIES 255 TYPE 8685 Hardware Maintenance Manual And Troubleshooting Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements used in this book
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Server controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the SCSISelect utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
POST error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Identifying problems using status LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Error symptoms
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Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Standby mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Choices available from the Configuration/Setup Utility main menu . . . . . 11
Additional Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Starting the SCSISelect utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Choices available from the SCSISelect menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ServerGuide features
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
System Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Typical NOS installation
Setting up or updating multiple servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing your NOS without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
High-performance Ethernet modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Ethernet port connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Viewing error logs from the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . 28
Viewing error logs from diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Starting the diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Diagnostic error message tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
LEDs for Active PCI slots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Power-supply LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Light path diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Error symptom charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Small computer system interface messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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