Chapter 2. Power, Controls, And Indicators; Blade Server Control Panel And Leds - IBM LS42 - BladeCenter - 7902 Installation And User Manual

Chapter 2. Power, controls, and indicators

This chapter describes the power features, how to turn on and turn off the blade
server, and what the controls and indicators mean. This chapter also identifies the
system-board connectors.

Blade server control panel and LEDs

This section describes the controls and LEDs on the blade server.
Notes:
1. The control panel door is shown in the closed (normal) position in the following
2. The following illustration shows a single-width type of blade server. The MPE
KVM select button: Press this button to associate the shared BladeCenter unit
keyboard, video, and mouse port (KVM) with the blade server. The LED on this
button flashes while the request is being processed and then is lit when the
ownership of the keyboard, video, and mouse has been transferred to the blade
server. It can take approximately 20 seconds to switch the keyboard, video, and
mouse control to the blade server.
Using a keyboard that is directly attached to the management-module, you can
press keyboard keys in the following sequence to switch KVM control between
blade servers:
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illustration. To access the power-control button, you must open the control panel
door.
also interacts with the control panel on the blade server.
NumLock NumLock bay_number Enter
Where bay_number is the two-digit number of the blade bay in which the blade
server is installed. A blade server that occupies more than one blade bay is
identified by the lowest bay number that it occupies.
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