Using The Sms Utility; Starting The Sms Utility; Sms Utility Menu Choices - IBM BladeCenter JS21 Types 8844 Service Manual

Using the SMS utility

This section provides the instructions to start the SMS utility and descriptions of the
menu choices.

Starting the SMS utility

Complete the following steps to start the SMS utility:
1. Turn on or restart the blade server, and establish an SOL session with it (see
2. When the POST menu and indicators are displayed, press the 1 key after the
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

SMS utility menu choices

The following choices are on the SMS utility main menu. Depending on the version
of the firmware in the blade server, some menu choices might differ slightly from
these descriptions.
v Select Language
v Setup Remote IPL (Initial Program Load)
v Change SCSI Settings
v Select Console
v Select Boot Options
v Firmware Boot Side Options
v Progress Indicator History
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word Keyboard appears and before the word Speaker appears.
Select this choice to change the language used to display the SMS menus.
Select this choice to enable and set up the remote startup capability of the blade
server or partition.
Select this choice to view and change the addresses of the SCSI controllers
attached to the blade server.
Select this choice to select the console on which the SMS menus are displayed.
Select this choice to view and set various options regarding the installation
devices and boot devices.
Note: If a device you are trying to select (such as a USB CD drive in the
BladeCenter media tray) is not displayed in the Select Device Type menu, select
List all Devices and choose the device from that menu.
Select this choice to select the boot image (permanent or temporary) that will be
used the next time the blade server is started.
Select this choice to view the progress codes that were displayed on the console
during the current startup, the previous startup, and the previous failover startup.