Table Of Contents - IBM x3655 - System - 7985 Installation Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM System x Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Removing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Removing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing the air baffle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Removing the riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing the riser-card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Installing the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Replacing the ServeRAID SAS Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing an optional tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 3. Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Front view
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Using the ServeRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using the baseboard management controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing the cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the IBM ServeRAID Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . 40
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Enabling and configuring SOL using the OSA SMBridge management utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Installing the OSA SMBridge management utility program . . . . . . . . 52
Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 54
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