Notices And Statements Used In This Book; Reliability, Availability, And Serviceability - IBM xSeries 200 Hardware Maintenance Manual

v Systems-management capabilities
v Integrated network environment support
v IBM ServerGuide

Notices and statements used in this book

The caution and danger statements also appear in the multilingual safety book
provided on the IBM xSeries Documentation CD. Each statement is numbered for
easy reference to the corresponding statement in the safety book.
The notice and statement definitions are as follows:
v Notes: These notices provide important tips, guidance, or advice.
v Important: These notices provide information that might help you avoid
v Attention: These notices indicate possible damage to programs, devices, or data.
v Caution: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially hazardous
v Danger: These statements indicate situations that can be potentially lethal or

Reliability, availability, and serviceability

Three of the most important considerations in server design are reliability,
availability, and serviceability (RAS). The RAS features help to ensure the integrity
of the data that is stored on the server; that the server is available when you want
to use it; and that should a failure occur, you can easily diagnose and repair the
failure with minimal inconvenience.
The following is an abbreviated list of the RAS features that the server supports.
v Reliability features
See the documentation provided with your systems-management software for
more information.
The server comes with an Ethernet controller on the system board. This Ethernet
controller has an interface for connecting to 10-MBps or 100-MBps networks. The
server automatically selects between 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX environments.
The controller provides full-duplex (FDX) capability, which enables simultaneous
transmission and reception of data on the Ethernet local area network (LAN).
These controllers support Alert on LAN 2 technology.
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CDs
The ServerGuide CDs that are included with the server provide programs to help
you set up the server and install the network operating system (NOS). The
ServerGuide program detects the hardware options that are installed and
provides the correct configuration programs and device drivers. In addition, the
ServerGuide CDs include a variety of application programs for the server.
For more information about the ServerGuide CDs, see "Using the ServerGuide
CDs" on page 32.
inconvenient or problem situations.
An attention notice is placed just before the instruction or situation in which
damage could occur.
to you. A caution statement is placed just before a description of a potentially
hazardous procedure step or situation.
extremely hazardous to you. A danger statement is placed just before the
description of a potentially lethal or extremely hazardous procedure step or
situation.
– Boot block recovery
– Cooling fans with speed-sensing capability
– Customer-upgradable basic input/output system (BIOS)
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