Ibm Advanced Settings Utility Program; Installing Thinkserver Easymanage Software; Installation Requirements - Lenovo ThinkServer TS200 Hardware Maintenance Manual

• Power/reset control (power-on, hard and soft shutdown, hard and soft reset, schedule power control).
• Alerts (in-band and out-of-band alerting, PET traps - IPMI style, SNMP, e-mail).
• Operating-system failure blue screen capture.
• Command-line interface.
• Configuration save and restore.
• PCI configuration data.
• Boot sequence manipulation.
The IMM also provides the following remote server management capabilities through the OSA SMBridge
management utility program:
• Command-line interface (IPMI Shell)The command-line interface provides direct access to server
management functions through the IPMI 2.0 protocol. Use the command-line interface to issue
commands to control the server power, view system information, and identify the server. You can also
save one or more commands as a text file and run the file as a script.
• Serial over LANEstablish a Serial over LAN (SOL) connection to manage servers from a remote location.
You can remotely view and change the UEFI settings, restart the server, identify the server, and perform
other management functions. Any standard Telnet client application can access the SOL connection.

IBM Advanced Settings Utility program

The IBM Advanced Settings Utility (ASU) program is an alternative to the UEFI Setup Utility program for
modifying UEFI settings. Use the ASU program online or out of band to modify UEFI settings from the
command line without the need to restart the system to access the UEFI Setup Utility program.
You also can use the ASU program to configure the optional remote presence features or other IMM settings.
The remote presence features provide enhanced systems-management capabilities.
In addition, the ASU program provides limited settings for configuring the IPMI function in the IMM through
the command-line interface.
Use the command-line interface to issue setup commands. You can save any of the settings as a file and run
the file as a script. The ASU program supports scripting environments through a batch-processing mode.

Installing ThinkServer EasyManage software

You can install the ThinkServer EasyManage Core Server program from the ThinkServer EasyManage CD or
you can download and install the program from http://www.lenovo.com/support. After one instance of the
ThinkServer EasyManage Core Server has been installed, you can use the ThinkServer EasyManage Agent
installer to install the agent on other servers and clients on the network.
Also, the ThinkServer EasyStartup program provides an option to either install the ThinkServer EasyManage
Agent as part of the operating system installation process or install a desktop icon to assist with the
installation of the ThinkServer EasyManage Core Server after the operating system has been installed.

Installation requirements

Before installing ThinkServer EasyManage software on your server, your environment must meet the
following requirements:
• ®Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is installed on the server where you intend to install the Core Server.
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