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NEC Express5800/320La Configuration Guide

1. 3 24 LAN Monitoring erret iet etc ep RID Shee 3 24 Current Value of ME BE iae eee dide ee tec pee rte 3 24 BIOS and Agent Temperature Monitoring eese nennen 3 25 Memory Error Alarm e d atn hee RED qe ertet ete eee pene Hoe petrae shes 3 25 Thireshiolds ote b ER di M UN de RR ae 3 25 NOME EE 3 25 Warning Message about CPU Load eese nennen 3 26 Stopping of the Primary PCI Module by the Server 3 26 Collection of Dump by the Server Utility seen rene 3 26 Alert ge eese eire texte pete tele eren enda 3 27 Monitoring the ft Server Introduction ed Deere Pte te sepe ease e rei iP ene rid 4 2 Express5800 ft Maintenance oe gea Le o eH e dee es 4 3 Monitoring ft Server Using ESMPRO 4 4 Starting the Data VIeWeE eie tet ae ee eget e ol eoe pe 4 5 CPU Modules metti tee tete terim epe e ee de 4 6 PCI nne etate ee te OE adage 4 12 SCSI Adapters aee pete dero Ee WIE RU UNUS UR GNE EO UO 4 20 BMC ates EUR e iol aisle tees 4 23 Ethernet Boatd 5 ec eem ete e eret Rees eet He et ere Hte 4 24 Monitoring ft Server Using ESMPRO Agent sese 4 27 Starting ft Server Utlity
2. sess 3 8 Destination D Settings iiie ii 3 9 Scheduling Responses terere D deni n EDU iene a Rae 3 10 Manager GCECP TIP In Band t e o o eere Ree Ee 3 10 Manager TCP IP Qut of Band iere eee tet eene tente ea ae 3 11 Agent Events Setting e etin enge itte tee Leite tote abo Heer 3 12 Syslog Events S tt mg iecit ee ideal 3 13 CIAR 3 14 General Propetties ese een o ee HE ere PO ERR e tei ee etui 3 15 Contents iii CPU Properties Rr o E ee RO ae er 3 16 Pile System Properties e ie oe sepu te 3 17 EAN Properties ci eee o PE ee RM 3 18 Terperature Propetties eeepc ette rete 3 19 Voltage Properties iti oeenn E eet eb ge ete e pe lec 3 21 Watchdog Timer Properties 2 inerte eie e 3 22 Shutdown Propetties tuere rip Pete ERE LE ire ees 3 23 ESMPRO Agent Considerations eese eene teen enr enne 3 24 Module Status Messages Rieti eee te 3 24 Devices Not Suppotted eser cer UR eg E 3 24 Monitoring with NEC ESMPRO Manager Version 3 7 or 3 24 Display of the Ethernet Board Status sese 3 24 Change of Installation States of CPU and PCI
3. e e t a e Eee REL E LEUR t coit od 4 27 General o Een GAN A ee teh Gio eee te tete e eee Ri 4 27 CPU Modules rere teet o nd ep ERE de eR rn re eee 4 28 PCEModules e ec bee ess 4 32 SCSLAdaptet eerte teile sein eee 4 34 Ethernet iei tee iet beige b e ELE SER Eel 4 35 BMC Firmware umet te else ei eens 4 36 Index iv Contents Introduction wm About this Guide a Document Conventions a How this Guide is Organized Related Documents a Where to go from here About This Guide This guide contains supplemental instructions needed to install and configure the Red Hat Linux Network Operating System This document is intended to complement the more detailed procedural documents available from the vendor of the network operating system This document is not intended as the central source of installation and configuration information for your system This guide also includes information on installing configuring and using ESMPRO Agent on Express5800 320La systems that include the Linux Operating System For additional information it is important to read the READ ME files and related documentation provided by the vendor of your network operating system Document Conventions This guide uses the following text conventions Notes have the following meaning amp Note Notes give important information about the material being described
4. The notational conventions listed below are used throughout this guide Italic Used for user command input file names and keywords Bold Used for system prompts and command definitions How This Guide Is Organized This guide contains the following information m Chapter 1 Introduction This chapter contains general information about this guide and related documents m Chapter 2 Configuring Linux This chapter contains supplemental information for configuring the Linux Operating System m Chapter 3 ESMPRO Agent for Linux This chapter contains information for installing configuring and using ESMPRO Agent Chapter 4 Monitoring the ft Server This chapter contains information on using ESMPRO Manager and ESMPRO Agent to run the ft Server Utility 1 2 Introduction Related Documents In addition to this guide the following system documentation is included with your server either as electronic files on EXPRESSBUILDER or as paper copy shipped with your server m System Release Notes Release Notes provide you with the latest information about your system This information was not available at the time your configuration guide was developed W Getting Started Sheet The Getting Started Sheet provides several easy to follow steps to become familiar with your server documentation and to complete your installation successfully System User s Guide This guide provides a quick reference to information about
5. 4 1 Slot Press the Clear MTBF button to clear MTBF Bg SCSI Adapter the MTBF information ex General 4 Update r Diagnostics Information 4 Maintenance Time of last 1 5CSI Bus Result Type RUD Tex Nba m Ethernet Board General Detail i Maintenance i Press the Diagnostics button to EH 2 Module diagnose the Ethemet Board E e For Help press F1 Normal warning B Abnormal Bring Up Bring Down Not currently supported MTBF Information The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a component can be viewed or cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component If a fault occurs in a component the module calculates the MTBF of the component again If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Procedure To clear the MTBF information of the Ethernet board press the MTBF button displayed in the Maintenance screen Diagnostics Information Self check diagnosis function
6. 418121060 PCI BUS NO 01 for the left PCI and 09 for the right PCI PCI SLOT NO PCI slot number 00 01 02 from left CHANNEL NO Channel number The first channel number is 00 If multiple channels exist for a single SCSI bus a set of format and PCI BUS NO PCI SLOT NO CHANNEL must be specified listed for each channel 3 If another SCSI bus exists on the same domain repeat step 2 4 Confirm the settings in the proc scsi topo file and then execute the following command to save the topology fidisk topology save Consequently the topology setting is restored when the system restarts amp Note To delete a topology setting item execute rm lopt nec ftras etc scsi topology save remove the topology file restart the system and then perform the procedure starting with step 1 For example when two Qlogic 2310F extension boards are mounted in slot 4 of each PCI module you can execute the following commands echo setdomain 2 proc scsi topo echo bus 2 4142300 01 03 00 qla2300 09 03 00 gt proc scsi topo cat proc scsi topo The following information displays Configuring Linux 2 13 Domain 0 Domain 1 Host 01 05 Channel 0 connects to Bus 0 Device 501810 Channel 1 connects to Bus 1 Device b1t8I0 Host 09 05 Channel 1 connects to Bus 0 Device bOt8lO Channel 0 connects to Bus 1 Device b1t8I0 Domain 2 Host 01 03 Channel 0 connects to Bus 2 Host 09 03 Channel 0
7. amp Note In the following procedure PCI module 1 will be brought down Procedure 1 2 In Data Viewer select the General folder of PCI module 1 The General screen displays Check the current state of the Status display located at the bottom of this screen A green Status display indicates the PCI module is up a gray Status display indicates the PCI module is down Switch to PCI 1 module Maintenance folder and click on the Bring Down button to bring down PCI module 1 Select the PCI General folder and verify the PCI module is down by checking the Status display The PCI stop operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO To bring PCI module up perform Steps 1 and 2 above then switch to PCI 1 module Maintenance folder and click on the Bring Up button to bring up PCI module 1 4 14 Monitoring the ft Server MTBF Information The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a component can be viewed or cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component If a fault occurs in a component the module calculates the MTBF of the component again If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated MTBF is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The
8. 4 Start the report setting tool JESMamsadm The Report Setting window appears Report Settingg Destination ID Setting Agents Events Setting I3 slog Events Setting ok 3 6 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Base Settings The Agent can respond to an event using any of the three methods selected in the Base Setting menu but only if the method is enabled and configured The report contents include a detailed message support method and the alert type Manager Select this setting to use SNMP as the reporting method to send alerts to the Manager For this method to work you must specify the manager console s IP address as an SNMP trap destination Manager TCP IP In Band Select this setting to use TCP IP to send an alert to a manager within the local area network LAN environment Manager IP Out of Band Select this setting to use TCP IP to send an alert to a manager outside of the local area network using remote access service over a dial up network WAN environment Shutdown Delay Enter a time period for the shutdown delay When the managed server receives a command to shut down it will first display a pop up message to alert you of the impending shut down You can cancel the shutdown from the pop up message If you don t respond to the pop up message the managed server shuts down The time delay you specify here on the Shutdown Delay Setting dialog box is the amount of time the pop up message appears
9. 5 1 Ethernet Board 1 on PCI module 1 10 6 Power supply unit on PCI module 1 10 100 PCI module 2 11 PCI slot 1 on PCI module 2 11 0 PCI slot 2 on PCI module 2 11 1 PCI slot 3 on PCI module 2 11 2 PCI slot 4 on PCI module 2 11 8 SCSI adapter 1 on PCI module 2 11 5 SCSI bus 1 of SCSI adapter 1 on PCI module 2 11 5 0 SCSI bus 2 of SCSI adapter 1 on PCI module 2 11 51 Ethernet Board 1 on PCI module 2 11 6 Power supply unit on PCI module 2 11 100 SCSI enclosure 1 41 SCSI slot 1 on SCSI enclosure 1 41 1 SCSI slot 2 on SCSI enclosure 1 41 2 SCSI slot 3 on SCSI enclosure 1 41 3 Electronics 1 on SCSI enclosure 1 41 120 Electronics 2 on SCSI enclosure 1 41 121 Power supply unit on SCSI enclosure 1 41 100 SCSI enclosure 2 42 SCSI slot 1 on SCSI enclosure 2 42 1 SCSI slot 2 on SCSI enclosure 2 42 2 SCSI slot 3 on SCSI enclosure 2 42 3 Electronics 1 on SCSI enclosure 2 42 120 Electronics 2 on SCSI enclosure 2 42 121 Power supply unit on SCSI enclosure 2 42 100 ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 27 Monitoring the ft Server m Introduction Express5800 ft Maintenance a Monitoring ft Server Using ESMPRO Manager a Monitoring ft Server using ESMPRO Agent Introduction ESMPRO provides several unique maintenance functions for the Express5800 ft Server These include switching system modules Off and On and updating firmware in the Express5800 ft Server Many maintenance functions may be executed in the online state in which the system conti
10. ESMPRO MIB DMI and FTServer Folders under ESMPRO MIB contain information from the SNMP agent If there is also DMI agent software on that server you will see another major folder labeled DMI which contains information from the DMI agent These folders are described in Chapter 3 of the ESMPRO User s Guide The third folder FTServer is described in this chapter The FTServer folder lists each of the modules in your server indicates the state of the module and allows you to monitor and make changes to these modules and specific components in the modules from the ESMPRO Manager Information on viewing and making changes to ft Server modules using Data Viewer is presented in the following sections Refer to Chapter 3 of the ESMPRO User s Guide for detailed information on using Data Viewer gt Eile Edit View Tools Help Bl CPU Module 1 gt alal als re rs m TUNE EsMPRO TA General E Hardware 9 System 9 09 Device Enclosure Model Name 243830153 H Software Description G7FMU 59 00 Network Online CPU Priority High 9 90 Expansion Bus Device Logic Revision 14 BIOs BIOS Information Local Poling Version PhoenixBIOS 4 0 Release 5 0 500D File system Additional Information eJ TUNE DMI L TUNE FTServer ECC Information A m paci m Threshold Exceeded Within the limits of threshold z u Correctable Errors E pum inter
11. ID of a particular Agent event Action after Report Select the action to be taken when this event occurs Selections include m None Do nothing System continues normal operation m Shutdown The system is systematically shut down m Reboot The system is rebooted 3 12 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Destination ID List Highlight the method of reporting to be used should this selected event occur Then tab to Add and press ENTER to add the selected method to the Report to list Report to Lists the active method of reporting an event Syslog Events Setting The Syslog Events Setting menu lets you configure internal events generated by the operating system Selecting Syslog Events Setting at the Report Setting menu displays the Syslog Events Setting menu Source The origin of a particular system event Event ID The destination ID of a particular system event syslog Application Setting Add TCP_IP OUT OF BAND TCP IP IN BAND 7 Source The origin of a particular system event Event ID The destination ID of a particular system event Action after Report Select the action to be taken when this event occurs Selections include m None Do nothing System continues normal operation ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 13 m Shutdown The system is systematically shut down m Reboot The system is rebooted Destination ID List Highlight the method of reporting to be used should this selected eve
12. Information IP Addresses To confirm NIC IP addresses enter the following command Type vndctl status n where n indicates the slot number 1 7 of the slot containing the optional NIC boards Virtual Network Status virtual status config slot real s haO OKAY yes 7 01 06 epro09 06 Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO inet addr 192 168 8 10 Bcast 192 168 255 255 Mask 255 255 0 0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU 1500 Metric 1 RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen O slot real status link 7 left epro01 06 UP LINK Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU 1500 Metric 1 RX packets 4989 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen 100 Interrupt 15 Base address 0x8000 right epro09 06 UP LINK Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU 1500 Metric 1 RX packets 11186 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4086 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen 100 Interrupt 21 Base address 0x3000 Configuring Linux 2 7 Configuring Internal Disk Drives The hard disk drive storage bays can house up to six hard disk drives which when mirrored results into three logical drives The physical disk drive slots are nu
13. Information of the members making up the RAID Information in the following format is displayed for each member slot number name If a member is in error state the F mark is shown to right of the member In this case the RAID needs to be repaired status Status information as shown below DUPLEX Normal state RESYNCING X X Synchronization in progress DUPLEX is displayed when synchronization is completed RECOVERY Recovery in progress A member for which is displayed in Column member is not installed yet SIMPLEX RAID installed in only one system If two members are displayed in the column member the member with displayed is in standby state before the RECOVERY state If only one member is displayed the RAID needs to be repaired ERROR NoRAID members exist 2 12 Configuring Linux Setting SCSI Topology If an extension SCSI board FC board is mounted in a PCI slot topology setting is necessary Take the following steps to set topology 1 Choose the domain numbers to be set from the proc scsi scsi and proc scsi topo files and execute the following command on the shell echo setdomain dn proc scsi topo where dn is the domain number 2 Choose a SCSI bus number not used yet and execute the following command on the shell echo bus bn format PCI BUS NO PCI SLOT NO CHANNEL NO gt proc scsi topo where bn is the SCSI bus number format Device format Example qla2300
14. No action is taken NMI NMI default An error is generated to indicate the operating system took longer than the allotted time to shutdown This could indicate that the operating system is hung 3 22 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Action After Timeout None No action is taken Hard Reset The system is rebooted Power Cycle The system is powered OFF then immediately powered ON to clear an abnormal condition Ex hung operating system Power Down default The system is shutdown completely and powered off Shutdown Properties Shutdown Properties when enabled allows the Agent to monitor operating system shutdown for errors Monitor Shutdown Hang Timeout Action When Timeout BMMIZHMITdSTSUNEISS d Action After Timeout TT 0 Timeout The maximum amount of time the operating system should take to complete a shutdown Action When Timeout When a the operating system takes longer to shutdown than the allotted time specified the Action When Timeout setting determines how the Agent responds None No action is taken NMI NMI default An error is generated to indicate the operating system took longer than the allotted time to shutdown This could indicate that the operating system is hung Action after Timeout None No action is taken Hard Reset The system is rebooted Power Cycle The system is powered OFF then immediately powered ON to clear an abnormal condition Ex hung
15. connects to Bus 2 fidisk topology save For more information consult the man pages of scsi and scsi topology 2 14 Configuring Linux Starting SCSI Disk s Use ftdiskadm to start a SCSI disk s in manual mode The following is an example of starting a SCSI disk s Command action 1 gt SCSI 2 gt RAID 3 gt Environment 9 Quit Command 1 Command action 1 Status All Disks 2 Status System Disks 3 Status Extended Disks 4 Bring Up 5 Bring Down 9 lt RETURN Command 4 Bring Up Which disk s for help gt 10 1 tOl see Note 1 ftdisk ERROR 1 Bringing up reached timeout see Note 2 lt lt Confirm the started SCSI disk s gt gt Notes 1 To obtain a disk specification method list enter An asterisk can be specified for TARGET and LUN A value 0 to maximum disk number of successfully started disks overrun count can be specified For TARGET the overrun count is the value specified in the environment variable FTDISKADM TID OVERRUN For LUN the overrun count is the value specified in the environment variable FTDISKADM LUN OVERRUN To confirm change the value select Environment from each menu There are other specification methods for example listing numeric values in brackets 9 lt 1 gt lt 2 gt and specifying a range of numeric values e g lt num3 gt lt 5 gt If the overrun value is 1 or more the
16. device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Procedure To clear the MTBF information of the PCI module press the MTBF button displayed in the Maintenance screen Diagnostics Information This function is not supported Monitoring the ft Server 4 15 PCI Slots General Select the General folder Data Viewer displays the PCI Slot General screen File Edit view Tools Help 8 PCI Module amp 4 gt aa Sle gt rs TUNE ESMPRO MIB General Hardware El System 8 45 Device fA Enclosure Bus Number 2 H B Software Device Number 0 H A Network Power 75W 9 90 Expansion Bus Device Vendor ID 159C 8 8 BIOS Device ID MB Local Polling El ri Revision ID 0064 8 E Fie System Class Code Display Controller si TUNE DMI TUNE Frserver Sub Codec m CPU Module Status Online B PCI Module E BB Module General Update Maintenance Slot General 2 Maintenance H PCI Device 3 2 PCI Slot ES 3 PCI Slot Z3 4 PCI Slot SCSI Adapter 8 9 m Ethernet Board 2 PCI Module For Help press F1 Normal warning B Abnormal e The General screen displays technical information about the PCI adapter located in the selected PCI slot Status Status
17. for the Ethernet board is not currently supported 4 26 Monitoring the ft Server Monitoring ft Server using ESMPRO Agent NEC Express5800 ft series maintenance is administered in two ways one is to use NEC ESMPRO Manager for remote maintenance and the other is to use the NEC ESMPRO Agent ft server utility on the NEC Express5800 ft series for local maintenance This section provides procedures on using the ft server utility to perform local maintenance on your ft server Starting ft Server Utility 1 Login the system as a root authorized user 2 Move to the directory containing NEC ESMPRO Agent If no particular installation destination is specified NEC ESMPRO Agent is installed in opt nec esmpro sa The procedure here is explained with NEC ESMPRO Agent installed in lopt nec esmpro sa cd opt nec esmpro sa 3 Move to the directory containing the ft Server Utility cd bin 4 Start the ft Server Utility JESMftcutil The ft Server Utility window displays General Changes to the General screen are not supported Monitoring the ft Server 4 27 CPU Modules Your server includes two CPU modules that you may monitor using the ft Server Utility When you select a CPU module six CPU maintenance functions are displayed MTBF Clear Start Stop Module Diagnostic Firmware Update Board Switch and Dump Module Diagnostic and Board Switch are not supported This section provides procedures for viewing and usin
18. in BIOS must also be set in the NEC ESMPRO Agent for the agent to correctly monitor temperature changes Memory Error Alarm If a memory error alarm is sent as a trap to the manager the bank ID field of the alert viewer on the manager side is blanked However the syslog of NEC ESMPRO Agent contains pertinent information about the same alarm Confirm the information and contact the maintenance person Thresholds Alerts Thresholds for monitoring fans and voltage cannot be displayed set from NEC ESMPRO Manager However NEC ESMPRO Agent monitors them and issues an alert if an error occurs Detailed information about alerts is displayed on the alert viewer However Unknown may be displayed for some of the information depending on the alert ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 25 Warning Message about CPU Load When NEC ESMPRO Agent detects that it cannot get performance information from the OS because of temporarily insufficient system resources or a high load rate NEC ESMPRO Agent registers the following syslog message Source ESMCpuPerf Type Information Event ID 9005 Explanation System performance information cannot be obtained Code xxxx If NEC ESMPRO Agent cannot get performance information it processes the load rate as 0 If events which do not permit NEC ESMPRO Agent to get information occur consecutively the displayed CPU load rate may be lower than the actual value Stopping of the Primary PCI Module b
19. information memory errors chipset information and CPU module status ECC Information ESMPRO monitors and logs correctable intermittent and uncorrectable DIMM errors within predetermined thresholds you set The totals of these errors are displayed in the DIMM screen DIMM errors over a period of time may be viewed in graph form by selecting the graph icon next to the reported error Status The color of this display indicates the current status of the CPU module as compared to set threshold values of components in the CPU module Green Selected CPU module is up Duplex indicates companion CPU module is also up All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit Simplex indicates the companion CPU module is down Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert limit Gray Selected CPU module is down 4 6 Monitoring the ft Server Update Select the Update folder Data Viewer displays the CPU module Update screen TUNE DataViewer lej xl File Edit View Tools Help si El gt sil Sle E TUNE ESMPRO MIB Hardware 2 System DM Update Device 4 e Enclosure Software Magic 73 59 00 Network ID Version 0 Expansion Bus Device EEPROM Version 0 8 81 805 Serial Number 0160778 i Local Poling Artwork Revision 0 File System ECO Level 0 TUNE Partner ECO Lev
20. m Hardware 8 System Bring Up Bring Down 9 25 Device Press the Bring Up button to bring the PCI Bring U a ig Up Enclosure Module up press the Bring Down button to Bina By Software bring the PCI Module down Bring Down BY Network 9 90 Expansion Bus Device MTBF Infomation Use Threshold Local Poling Threshold 3005 Ej File System Curent M 1 TUNE DM Faults 1 TUNE FTServer CPU Module Pct Module E SCSI Enclosure Time of last fault 2001 07 20 23 10 56 04 00 Press the Clear MTBF button to Clear the MTBF information _MTBF Gea Diagnostics Information Time of last run Result Message 1 TesNume E E 1 CPU Module E S 2 CPU Module c Bl Module General t Update Maintenance SS Slot 2 PCI Slot 5 23 3 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot 1 2 SCSI Adapter B Bmc 9 amp Ethernet Board 2 1 Module Press the Diagnostics button to diagnose the PCI Module Diagnostics For Help press F1 Normal warning B Abnormal Bring Up Bring Down Using the Maintenance screen you can bring the selected PCI module up or down When a module is brought down stopped firmware in this module may be updated or this module can safely be removed from your server If one PCI module is down or removed the system continues normal operation using the companion PCI module
21. module can safely be removed from your server If one CPU module is down or removed the system continues normal operation using the companion CPU module amp Note In the following procedure CPU module 1 will be brought down Procedure 1 2 Select the CPU module 1 using the ft Server Utility See above screen At the front of the ft server check the current state of the fail and state LEDs of the target CPU module 1 Ensure that the CPU module is up The Fail LED should be OFF and the State LED should be green Click on the Stop button to bring down CPU module 1 A status screen displays to indicate CPU module one has been brought down Verify the CPU module is down by checking the fail and safe LEDs on the front of the CPU module 1 The fail LED is red and the state LED is OFF Also the state LED of CPU module 2 is amber indicating the CPU is operating in simplex mode The CPU stop operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO Also select the Refresh button to update the displayed status To bring CPU module up click on Start button to bring up CPU module 1 A status screen displays to indicate CPU module one has been brought up Verify the CPU module is up by checking the fail and safe LEDs on the front of the CPU module 1 The fail LED is OFF and the state LED is green The CPU start operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO Select the Refresh button to update the CPU status displayed Monitoring the ft Se
22. number of disks in accordance with the value fail to start Confirm the status after executing the command Configuring Linux 2 15 Stopping SCSI Disk s Use ftdiskadm to stop a SCSI disk s in manual mode The following is an example of stopping a SCSI disk s Command action 1 gt SCSI 2 gt RAID 3 gt Environment 9 Quit Command 1 Command action 1 Status All Disks 2 Status System Disks 3 Status Extended Disks 4 Bring Up 5 Bring Down 9 lt RETURN Command 5 Bring Down Which disk s for help gt 10 1 t015 see Note 1 f Bring down 10 1 t015 dOh2cOt015 y n y lt lt Confirm the started SCSI disk s gt gt Notes 1 To obtain a disk specification method list enter An asterisk can be specified for TARGET LUN serial number and device name It is applicable to all candidates There are other specification methods for TARGET and LUN for example listing numeric values in brackets e g lt num1 gt lt num2 gt and specifying a range of numeric values e g lt num3 gt lt num5 gt 2 16 Configuring Linux Adding Internal Disks Internal SCSI disks are mounted in slots 1 and 4 in standard configuration You can mount additional internal SCSI disks in paired slots 2 and 5 and paired slots 3 and 6 amp Note Be sure to add internal SCSI disks in pairs Use ftdiskadm to configure additional internal SCSI disks The followi
23. on the screen of the managed server before it shuts down amp Note To enable remote shutdown enable Shutdown Delay in the Base Setting window of the Alert Manager Report Setting Utility ESMamsadm Refer to the Report Setting section found earlier in this chapter Also enable Remote Shutdown in the General Properties screen of the ESMPRO Agent Configuration Utility ESMagntconr See Monitoring Function General Properties found later in this chapter ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 7 Manager SNMP Trap Setting When you select Manager SNMP from the Base Setting menu the SNMP Trap Setting menu displays To allow the Agent to send alerts to the manager you must include the manager s IP address in the Agent s list of SNMP trap destinations Trap Destination IP Specifies the manager console s IP address as a SNMP trap destination Select Add or Remove to change add or delete the IP addresses Manager IP In Band and Manager IP Out of Band When you select Manager IP In Band or Manager IP Out of Band from the Base Setting menu the Enable Disable menu displays to confirm your selection 3 8 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Destination ID Settings Once you have established the Base Setting method you are returned to the Report Setting menu Selecting the Destination ID Setting displays the Destination ID Setting menu To specify how the Agent responds to a pa
24. save and exit Press Enter The BMC FW Update Tool screen displays BMC FM update Property Setting BMC update Command Configu T Select BMC FW Update Command and press Enter The Firmware update completed screen displays when the BMC firmware has been updated 8 Select BMC Configuration to display the BMC Configuration screen Disp pla QLinmuane Management Information 9 Selecting Display Firmware Management Information displays a screen showing BMC firmware revision device ID device revision and SDR version Monitoring the ft Server 4 37 10 Selecting Configuration in the above menu displays the Configuration Menu as shown below Ch Return to previous menu 11 Select New or Change to configure System Management parameters Refer to the Management Workstation Application MWA Setup and Configuration Guide included with your system for more information on configuring System Management 4 38 Monitoring the ft Server Index A About this guide 1 2 Agent CPU tab 3 16 for Linux 3 14 General tab 3 15 LAN tab 3 18 settings Linux 3 14 Temperature tab 3 19 Voltage tab 3 21 Watch Dog Timer WDT tab 3 22 C Conventions document 1 2 CPU load threshold setting from the Linux Agent 3 16 CPU Module monitoring with data viewer 4 6 monitoring with ft server utility 4 28 D Data Viewer accessing from ESMPRO Manager 4 5 ft Server monitoring 4 4 Dialog box Shutdow
25. system redundancy and mirroring Perform the following steps to configure added 100 5 1000BASE TX and 1000BASE SX NICs 1 Power down the server and install the network interface controller boards into the same location within each PCI module Refer to the system user s guide for procedures on installing boards into the PCI modules Power up and logon to the system as root and enter the following commands to configure the NICs Confirm that the server has recognized the added NICs Note the slot number of the added NICs Type vndctl status Note An n in the commands in the next three steps indicates the slot number 1 6 of the slot containing the optional NIC boards Add the NICs of slot n to the VND list Type vndctl add n Configure the NICs of the duplex slot n Type vndctl config n Activate the NICs of the duplex slot n Type vndctl up n Deleting Optional PCI Network Interface Controller Settings Perform the following steps to delete NIC settings amp Note An n in the commands of the next two steps indicates the slot number 1 6 of the slot containing the optional NIC boards Ifthe target NICs are active deactivate them Type vndctl down n Delete the NICs of the specified slot number from the VND list Delete the NIC setting as well Type vndctl del n Confirm the status of the NICs deleted Type vndctl status 2 6 Configuring Linux Confirming
26. terminates operation without installing NEC ESMPRO Agent 8 Restart the system The functions of the installed NEC ESMPRO Agent are enabled when the system has restarted IMPORTANT When installing updated NEC ESMPRO Agent with all the current settings being cleared To get NEC ESMPRO Agent to report data to NEC ESMPRO Manager set a reporting method by the report setting function after restarting the system For the setting of a reporting method read the explanation later This completes the installation ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 5 Report Setting The Agent monitors events it detects internally or from the Linux event logs To configure the Agent to respond to events you perform the following basic activities using selections from the Report Setting menu m Enable the event reporting methods you want to use Base Setting m Define a list of report destinations Destination ID Setting Select the events you want the Agent to monitor Agents Events Setting and Syslog Events Setting Setting Manager Reporting SNMP 1 Login the system as a root authorized user 2 Move to the directory containing NEC ESMPRO Agent If no particular installation destination is specified NEC ESMPRO Agent is installed in opt nec esmpro sa The procedure here is explained with NEC ESMPRO Agent installed in lopt nec esmpro sa cd opt nec esmpro sa 3 Move to the directory containing the report setting tool cd bin
27. the Update folder Data Viewer displays the SCSI adapter Update screen f TUNE DataViewer fil Hardware 8 System 41 26 I O Device Firmware update of individual SCSI adapters is not currently supported Monitoring the ft Server 4 21 Maintenance Select the Maintenance folder Data Viewer displays the SCSI adapter Maintenance screen File Edit Tools Help _ HER EE a E gt fa alel m mr v TUNE ESMPRO MIB 2 Hardware B System 9 05 Device 2 Enclosure Software Ba Network Press the Bring Up button to bring the SCSI 9 90 Expansion Bus Device Adapter up press the Bring Down button to Maintenance Bring Up Bring Down aE BIOS bring the SCSI Adapter down Bring Down Local Polling m MTBF Information 8 File System Type Use Threshold TUNE DMI Threshold 300 Sec Frserver oe 9 0 CPU Module 7 E BE PCI Module T Time of last fault 5 8 1 1 Module General Press the MTBF Clear button to Clear E Update the MTBF information stie ess Maintenance Diagnostics Information 1 1 Slot a Time of last run Result S Brass FRU FRUID E SCSI Adapter General 4f Update 34 Maintenance 1 5 51 Bus Press the Diagnostics button to Diagnostics 2 5CSI Bus diagnose the SCSI Adapter For Help press
28. up or down However if a memory dump is made when the CPU module up The CPU module is taken offline until the memory dump has completed 27 Note In the following procedure a memory dump of CPU module 1 will be performed Monitoring the ft Server 4 31 Procedure 1 In the ft server utility select CPU Module 1 The above screen displays 2 In the Dump section of the display select whether you want to perform the memory dump with the CPU module up or down IF you are performing the memory dump with the CPU module down bring down the CPU module by performing the steps in Bring Up Bring Down above 3 Click on Execute button The memory dump is stored as SystemRoot memory dmp on the server The dump operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO If CPU module 1 was brought down before performing the Dump procedure bring this module back up PCI Modules Your server includes two PCI modules that you may monitor using the ft Server Utility When you select a PCI module three PCI maintenance functions are displayed MTBF Clear Stop Start and Module Diagnostic Module Diagnostic is not supported This section provides procedures for viewing and using these functions PCI Module 1 ft Server Utility MIBF Clear lt Clear gt PCI Module Start Sto Am 7778 Start gt PCI Module Diagnosis Current state DUPLEX MTBF Information Clear The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a PCI M
29. your system Its goal is to familiarize you with your system and the tasks necessary for system configuring and upgrading Where to Go From Here Where you go to continue your installation depends on how your system was shipped W If you are powering up your server for the first time go to Chapter 2 to configure the Linux Operating System If you are installing or configuring ESMPRO Agent for Linux go to Chapter 3 m If you require information on the use of ESMPRO Manager or ESMPRO Agent to run the ft Server Utility go to Chapter 4 Introduction 1 3 Configuring Linux Overview Powering up the Server Configuring the Network Interface a Configuring Internal Disk Drives Overview This chapter contains supplemental instructions needed to configure hardware and software used with the Linux Operating System This information is intended to supplement the more detailed Linux procedural documents available from RED HAT Inc This information is not intended to be the central source of installation and configuration information for your system 7 Note Read the System Release Notes for the latest system information before attempting to install Red Hat Linux on your system 2 2 Configuring Linux Powering up the Server After completing the system installation power up the server After POST Power On Self Test the server s self diagnostic program completes the preinstalled Linux operating s
30. 1 06 epro09 06 Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST MTU 1500 1 RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen O slot real status link 7 left epro01 06 DOWN Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO BROADCAST SLAVE MTU 1500 Metric 1 RX packets 4938 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 errors 0 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen 100 Interrupt 15 Base address 0x8000 right epro09 06 DOWN Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4 0 7 BROADCAST SLAVE MTU 1500 Metric 1 RX packets 11135 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4086 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 txqueuelen 100 Interrupt 21 Base address 0x3000 Referring to the above table 0 defines the two NICs as a duplex NIC listing them as a single NIC The remainder of the table shows the set values of the two actual NICs 5 Configure the NICs of the duplex slot 7 Type vndctl config 7 6 Activate the NIC interface of the duplex slot 7 Type vndctl up 7 2 4 Configuring Linux 7T Confirm the status Type vndctl status Virtual Network Status virtual status config slot real s haO OKAY yes 7 epro01 06 epro09 06 slot real status link 1 left right 2 left right 3 left right 4 left right 5 left right 6 left rig
31. 10 Confirming SC SD Disk Status a ee LEE ME ORE Ee 2 11 Setting SCSI Topology 2 13 Starting SCSE DISk S iie eg te tede te geste ae e ea ce pe de ete ee eg oed 2 15 Stopping SCST DISKS iei dcn p e s ee IR oa Led eS Ee YR ede 2 16 Adding Internal Disks eit de t eter HORE E edere Eee 2 17 Replacing Internal Disk S eet siete te eee Eee 2 19 Replacing the Disk 2 ete e ei eee eee tetra iru e me beret 2 20 Remstalling linux ee te e ere ge RP P RC eave teenies 2 22 ESMPRO Agent for Linux NEC ESMPBRO Agent 12 53 x gu HR LR HO t e ER eg dde 3 2 Required Software Modules eese enne enne en rene en rennen 3 2 Installing the Agent uoto de eate ed aee er e aU es 3 2 Starting portmap te e to bereit fedet 3 2 Setting SNMP SerVICe e ie HE ei e ertet b ette repite iie 3 3 New Installationen ieee E eet Nam 3 3 Updating the Agent i ree eee etn cci ed eR e Rea santos 3 4 R pott Settilig ed oi ee d n e dae o Eee eese 3 6 Setting Manager Reporting 3 enne rennen rennen en 3 6 hpEONI UM PRI M 3 7 Manager SNMP Trap Setha re ede eere ione tiene dee nte mule reet ee etes 3 8 Manager IP In Band and Manager IP Out of Band
32. 70 C 86 F to 160 F Warning high report warning high limit When the temperature exceeds this value a warning alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes to warning The warning high limit must meet the following condition Fatal High Limit gt Fatal High Reset gt Warning High Limit gt Warning High Reset Warning low report warning low limit When the temperature falls below this value a warning alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes to warning The warning low limit must meet the following condition Warning Low Reset gt Warning Low Limit gt Fatal Low Reset gt Fatal Low Limit Fatal low report fatal low limit When the temperature falls below this value a fatal alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes to abnormal The fatal low limit must meet the following conditions Warning Low Reset gt Warning Low Limit gt Fatal Low Reset gt Fatal Low Limit The low temperature limit can range from 10 C to 30 C 15 F to 86 F 3 20 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Voltage Properties Voltages sensors measure the operating voltages of processors located in the CPU modules and option boards located within the PCI modules Voltage Sensor The name of the voltage sensor Upper Fatal The high voltage limit that triggers a fatal alert Upper Warning The high voltage limit that triggers a warning alert Lower Fatal The low voltage limit that tr
33. EX 1 sda9 4 sdd9 md6 swap DUPLEX 1 sda7 4 sdd7 extra 51 SIMPLEX 3 1 6 sdf1 extra 55 SIMPLEX 3 sdc5 6 sdf5 md9 extra 66 SIMPLEX 3 sdc6 6 sdf6 Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETURN The following is an example of restoring repairing RAID Step 3 of this procedure Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETURN Command 3 Repair Disk Which SCSI SLOT 1 6 3 mdctl hot added dev sdc6 mdctl hot added dev sdcl mdctl hot added dev sdc5 Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETURN Command 1 2 20 Configuring Linux Status Raid name partitio label status member n boot boot DUPLEX 1 sdal 4 sdd1 mdl usr usr DUPLEX 1 sda5 4 sdd5 md2 home home DUPLEX 1 sdalO 4 sdd10 md3 var var DUPLEX 1 sda6 4 sdd6 md4 DUPLEX 1 sda8 4 sdd8 tmp tmp DUPLEX 1 sda9 4 sdd9 md6 swap DUPLEX 1 sda7 4 sdd7 md7 extra 61 SIMPLEX 3 sdel 6 sdf1 extra 65 SIMPLEX 3 sdc5 6 sdf5 md9 extra 66 RECOVERY 1 0 3 sdc6 6 sdf6 Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETU
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35. F1 Normal Warning B Abnormal Bring Up Bring Down Not currently supported MTBF Information The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a component can be viewed or cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component If a fault occurs in a component the module calculates the MTBF of the component again If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Procedure To clear the MTBF information of the SCSI adapter press the MTBF button displayed in the Maintenance screen Diagnostics Information Self check diagnosis function for the SCSI adapters is not currently supported 4 22 Monitoring the ft Server BMC TUNE DataViewer a Expansion Bus Device B 8105 Local Polling File System TUNE DMI TUNE FTServer CPU Module PCI Module General Update Maintenance 1 PCI Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot The General screen displays technical i
36. If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Procedure To clear the MTBF information of the CPU module press the MTBF button displayed in the Maintenance screen Diagnostics Information This function is not supported Monitoring the ft Server 4 9 CPU Select the CPU folder Data Viewer displays the CPU module CPU screen 815 File Edit view Tools Help CPU Module 21 8 rs o Lal B TUNE ESMPRO MIB 2 Hardware System I O Device Ej Enclosure TE UR P Model Name Family Stepping amp e M Network QDF Number Unknown 19 90 Expansion Bus Device Betrieben 5105 Software Revision 0 Local Polling Bears 9 File System BOM ID B eJ TUNE DMI redd Serial Number 0 Bc reed Thermal Reference 0 E CPU Module d I DEM EEPROM Part Modus Core Information n quum Max Frequency MHz B m CPU High Voltage Tolerance OmV n cpu Low Voltag
37. RN Command 9 Configuring Linux 2 21 Reinstalling Linux Before starting reinstallation remove all the peripheral equipment added SCSI boards and NICs Carry out the reinstallation with two internal SCSI disks inserted in slots 1 and 4 Choosing wrong slots or a wrong number of disks results in an installation failure In this case perform the installation procedure again Prerequisites Install disk backup CD ROMI and backup CD ROM2 IMPORTANT The Fail LED indicators located on the front of the CPU and PCI modules light red during the reinstallation of Linux In this instance the red LEDs do not indicate module failure When the Linux reinstallation is complete and each module is placed in dual configuration mode the Fail LEDs go off Refer to Chapter 1 of your system User s Guide for more information on CPU and PCI module LED indicator states The installation process of FT Linux is based on an unattended installation of Linux also called kickstart The process is driven by the kickstart file ks cfg located on the installation floppy If you need to modify the default partitioning the language supported or the packages installed please edit this file and change the parameters accordingly For more information consult The Official Red Hat Linux Customization Guide Red Hat Linux 7 1 detailing all parameters of the files IMPORTANT Be sure to only append to the Post section of the kickstart f
38. ackup CD into the CD ROM drive immediately after turning on the power Installation starts A message is displayed after a short time Remove backup CD ROM I and insert backup CD ROM2 according to the message Press Enter The message Congratulation Install Complete is displayed at completion of the installation Press Enter Backup CD RON2 is ejected and rebooting starts Remove the install disk and backup CD ROM2 After rebooting the root password changes to the factory set one at purchase of the server For the factory set password see the attached paper Administrator root password provided with the server After logging in the system with root change to an arbitrary password to provide security IMPORTANT After the system restarts two disks enter the RESYNCING state in order to complete the building of the RAID While the disks are in this state do not remove them turn off the power or restart the system Wait until RESYNCING or RECOVERY has completed You can confirm the current RAID status by executing ftdiskadm If you should accidentally reboot your system during the RESYNCING or RECOVERY state the data on your disks has not been corrupted After reboot the RES YNCING of your disks restarts from the beginning Your server is not in a fault tolerant state until RES YNCING has completed Configuring Linux 2 23 ESMPRO Agent for Linux NEC ESMPRO Agent a Required Softwar
39. al folder and verify the CPU module is down by checking the Status display The CPU stop operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO 5 To bring CPU module up perform Steps 1 and 2 above then switch to CPU 1 module Maintenance folder and click on the Bring Up button to bring up CPU module 1 4 8 Monitoring the ft Server Dump Button Pressing the Dump button copies current memory contents to a log file Information in this log file may be used during troubleshooting procedures Procedure 1 In Data Viewer select the General folder of CPU module 1 The General screen displays 2 Check the current state of the Status display located at the bottom of this screen green Status display indicates the CPU module is up a gray Status display indicates the CPU module is down A memory dump can be made with the CPU module up or down However if a memory dump is made when the CPU module up The CPU module is taken offline until the memory dump has completed 3 Switch to CPU 1 module Maintenance folder and click on the Dump button The memory dump files are stored in the directory var log vmdump on the managed server The dump operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO MTBF Information The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a component can be viewed or cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component If a fault occurs in a component the module calculates the MTBF of the component again
40. anager Fatal Report Limit When the CPU load exceeds this amount a fatal alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes from warning to abnormal The fatal alert is cleared when the CPU load falls below the value in the Fatal Reset column Fatal Reset When the CPU load falls below this value the Agent status is reset from Abnormal to Warning Warning Report Limit When the CPU load exceeds this amount a warning alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes from normal to warning The warning alert is cleared when the CPU load falls below the Warning Reset value Warning Reset When the CPU load falls below this value the Agent status is reset from Warning to normal 3 16 ESMPRO Agent for Linux File System Properties Alert messages are generated when the amount of used disk space exceeds the fatal and warning limits defined on the File System tab Sample Interval Indicates how often the drive is monitored The range is 1 to 3600 seconds Drive Thresholds displayed in this window apply to this drive Disable threshold When this bullet is indicated the drive is not monitored No fatal or warning alerts are generated Enable threshold the ratio of used capacity When this bullet is indicated threshold settings for the drive are active The Report column shows the upper limit for the amount of disk space used in units of percent Enable threshold the amount of free byte
41. anager can perform a remote shutdown or reboot A check gives the Manager permission No check denies the Manager permission amp Note Also enable Shutdown Delay in the Base Setting window of the Alert Manager Report Setting Utility ESMamsadm Refer to Report Setting section found earlier in this chapter SNMP Community The name of the SNMP community to which this Agent belongs Rackmount Name If this server is assigned to a rack indicate the Rackmount name Servers in the same rack are then displayed together under a Rackmount icon in the Operations Window ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 15 CPU Properties Sample Interval This is the CPU load monitoring cycle It defines how often the CPU load is sampled In the example to the right if the CPU load is sampled every 10 seconds you are collecting six data points every minute Utilization Rate CPU load is measured for the time period shown in this field In the example on the right CPU load is sampled every 10 seconds and computed over a period of 1 minute Total button Selecting the Total button displays total CPU load in the Report and Reset columns CPU s Item Selecting the CPU button displays data for that CPU in the Report and Reset columns Enable Threshold Check this box to make these settings effective now Leave it unchecked to store settings for future use Thresholds can also be set in the Data Viewer at the ESMPRO M
42. cking the No button does not reconstruct the data viewer tree and the change of the system configuration is not reflected in the data viewer To avoid an erroneous data viewer display always select the Yes button when receiving a message prompting you to reconstruct the tree of the data viewer LAN Monitoring Report LAN monitoring status is derived from the number of transmission packets and the number of packet errors within a certain period of time Therefore the LAN monitoring function may report a line fault or high line load when in a temporary high line impedance state If a normal state recovery is reported immediately after a line fault or high line load temporary high line impedance has occurred and is not a fault Current Value of MTBF If a device failure occurs the current value of MTBF is not displayed correctly on the data viewer of NEC ESMPRO Manager 3 24 ESMPRO Agent for Linux BIOS and Agent Temperature Monitoring Temperature sensor enabling and temperature monitoring may be set by ESMPRO Agent or the BIOS Setup Utility Temperature monitoring parameters set in either utility are automatically set in the other utility IMPORTANT If the OS has ACPI functionality the thresholds of the temperature set in the BIOS are managed by the ACPI function of the OS In this case temperature threshold values set in NEC ESMPRO Agent are independent of values set in BIOS The same temperature threshold values set
43. des two CPU modules that you may monitor using the Data Viewer When you select a CPU module five folder icons display General Maintenance Update CPU and DIMM Selecting the General folder Data Viewer displays the CPU module General screen MEE File Edit View Tools Help mcPuMoue z amp gt aa SBI Sl rs rs r X 1 ESMPRO MIB E Hardware 9 System General 8 45 Device 9 04 Enclosure Model Name 243630153 Software Description G7FMU 29 08 Network Online CPU Priority High 9 90 Expansion Bus Device logic Revision 11 B BIOS r BIOS Information Local Polling Version PhoenixBIOS 4 0 Release 6 0 500D 9 8 File System Additional Information eJ TUNE DMI TUNE Frserver B CPU Module EH Ml 1 1CPU Module E Comectable Errors 0 Intermittent Errors 0 id i Uncorrectable Errors 0 ECC Information Threshold Exceeded Within the limits of threshold Maintenance cpu z B DIMM r Chipset Information m 2 CPU Module Type Single CNB30LE 8 BI PCI Module Bus Information SCSI Enclosure 66MHz Capabilit Bus 0 32 tatus uplex St Fer Heb pres Normal warning B Abnormal The General screen displays information about the CPU module selected This screen displays information pertaining to the selected CPU module s description system BIOS information ECC
44. dule 1 Ensure that the PCI module is up The Fail LED should be OFF and the State LED should be green 3 Click on the Stop button to bring down PCI module 1 A status screen displays to indicate PCI module one has been brought down 4 Verify the PCI module is down by checking the fail and safe LEDs on the front of the PCI module 1 The fail LED is red and the state LED is OFF Also the state LED of PCI module 2 is amber indicating the PCI is operating in simplex mode The PCI stop operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO Also select the Refresh button to update the PCI module status displayed 5 To bring PCI module up click on the Start button to bring up PCI module 1 A status screen displays to indicate PCI module one has been brought up 6 Verify the PCI module is up by checking the fail and safe LEDs on the front of the PCI module 1 The fail LED is OFF and the state LED is green The PCI start operation is reported as an alert by ESMPRO Also select the Refresh button to update the PCI module status displayed Monitoring the ft Server 4 33 Diagnostics Information PCI Module Diagnostic is not supported SCSI Adapter MTBF Clear lt Clear gt SCSI Adapter Diagnosis MTBF Information Clear The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a PCI Module may be cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component Each time a fault occurs in a component in a PCI module the modu
45. e Modules Installing the Agent a Report Setting a Agent Monitoring ESMPRO Agent Considerations Alert Report Device IDs NEC ESMPRO Agent NEC ESMPRO Agent is a utility that serves as an agent between the server and NEC ESMPRO Manager management PC Using the agent you can set and reset values for a number of parameters and also establish threshold limits for your server Required Software Modules Agent for Linux requires installation of the following software modules m ucd snmp Linux module m newt Linux module m slang Linux module portmap Linux module Installing the Agent Starting portmap Before you install Agent for Linux ensure Linux module portmap is running At the command prompt execute the following commands sbin chkconfig portmap on etc rc d init d portmap start 3 2 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Setting SNMP Service The SNMP service needs to be set for using NEC ESMPRO Agent IMPORTANT If reinstalling the ucd snmp package after installing NEC ESMPRO Agent you need to reinstall NEC ESMPRO Agent To monitor the SNMP service from NEC ESMPRO Manager change the SNMP environment setting file etc snmp snmpd conf and set the community right level to READ WRITE or higher To be able to set thresholds or perform maintenance actions such as bringing modules up and down remotely set an operating environment according to the sample below See SNMP Online Help for details on t
46. e Tolerance my 2 cPu LI any Level2 Cache Information 2 Module a nis m PCI Module ga omponents A H E SCSI End Voltage High Voltage Tolerance Low Voltage Tolerance Revision 0 Status Online xl For Help press F1 Normal Warning Abnormal The CPU screen displays information about the selected CPU processor This information includes CPU processor specifications CPU core and level2 cache information and current CPU processor status CPU Information Specifications on the selected CPU Core Information Reported core information includes the frequency of the selected CPU processor the current voltage level of the CPU as well as the predefined high and low voltage limits set for the CPU CPU voltage changes over a period of time may be viewed in graph form by selecting the graph icon next to the reported voltage Level 2 Cache Information Reported Level 2 cache information includes the cache size the current voltage level of the cache as well as the predefined high and low voltage limits set for the cache Cache voltage changes over a period of time may be viewed in graph form by selecting the graph icon next to the reported voltage Status Status of this CPU The color of this display indicates the current status of the CPU processor within the selected CPU module as compared to the predefined threshold values set for the CPU processor Gr
47. e the disk 1 Execute Remove half disk of gt RAID of ftdiskadm to disconnect the RAID of the disk to be specified with the slot number and disconnect the disk from the system Remove the disk from the system and insert a new disk Execute Repair Disk of ftdiskadm to restore the RAID The following shows an example of processing from disk 3 removal to RAID restoration ftdiskadm Command action Command 2 Command action Command 5 Remove Half Disk Which SCSI SLOT 1 6 3 Command action Command 1 1 gt SCSI 2 gt RAID 3 gt Environment 9 Quit 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETURN set dev sdc6 faulty in dev md9 hot removed dev sdc6 set dev sdcl1 faulty in dev md7 hot removed dev sdcl set dev sdc5 faulty in dev md8 hot removed dev sdc5 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 RETURN lt lt lt Confirm that the disk has been removed gt gt gt Configuring Linux 2 19 Status Raid name partition label status member boot boot DUPLEX 1 sdal 4 sdd1 mdl usr usr DUPLEX 1 sda5 4 sdd5 md2 home home DUPLEX 1 sdalO 4 sdd10 md3 var var DUPLEX 1 sda6 4 sdd6 md4 7 DUPLEX 1 sda8 4 sdd8 md5 tmp tmp DUPL
48. ecuting ftdiskadm If you should accidentally reboot your system during the RESYNCING or RECOVERY state the data on your disks has not been corrupted After reboot the RESYNCING of your disks restarts from the beginning Your server is not in a fault tolerant state until RES YNCING has completed 2 8 Configuring Linux A server configured as RAID Level 1 with disks in the paired slots is shown in the Figure below m SLOTI SLOT4 m SLOT2 SLOTS m SLOT3 SLOT6 Slots for mirroring Jr SLOT4 SLOTI T UT L ogee SLOTS SLOT2 T T T SLOT6 Ln IL SLOTS DIOOBOaaaau Dt ao gp i dd 0000000000 mmm mmja 000 1 Group 1 Group 2 amp Note Paired hard disk drives a RAID Level 1 configuration must have the same capacity and the same logical structure Using the ftdiskadm utility to manage your disks and disk partitions ensures these rules Configuring Linux 2 9 Disk Administrator Tool ftdiskadm The disk administrator tool ftdiskadm confirms internal SCSI disk status or set RAID configurations Use ftdiskadm to perform the following functions m Confirm the status of all the internal SCSI disks m Confir
49. ed disk space exceeds the amount entered here The warning alert is cleared when the amount of used disk space falls below the value in the Warning Reset column When the bullet labeled Enable Threshold amount of free bytes KB is indicated this limit is the amount of free disk space A warning alert message is generated when the amount of free disk space falls below the amount entered here The warning alert is cleared when the amount of free disk space rises above the value in the Warning Reset column Warning Reset When Enable Threshold ratio of used capacity is indicated the Agent status is reset from Warning to Normal when the amount of used disk space falls below this value When Enable Threshold amount of free bytes is indicated the Agent status is reset when the amount of free space rises above this value LAN Properties LAN Properties Sample Interval Hardware Error TxRetry TXAbort Sample Interval The monitoring cycle The values displayed on this page are measured over this time period It can range from to 3600 seconds 3 18 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Network Hardware Error Percentage The percentage of network hardware errors that were detected during the Sampling Interval Hardware errors can include packet collisions due to alignment errors or FCS errors Errors may also occur when the network cables are not securely fastened or the HUB power is not turned on Transmissio
50. ed trademark of Linus Torvalds Inc Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat Inc All other trademarks belong to their respective owners PN 455 01664 001 March 2003 Copyright 2002 2003 NEC Solutions America Inc 10850 Gold Center Drive Suite 200 Rancho Cordova CA 95670 All Rights Reserved Contents Proprietary Notice and Liability Disclaimer Introduction About Ehis G lde sio e e rto iB 1 2 Document CONVENTIONS aedes exeo eae ge e CER NUR 1 2 How This Guide Is Organized iere tete pite t Hee Eget ee e e tee een 1 2 Related Documents eee etre eerte te ete e etae oe aenea tege ne se eene aat iets 1 3 Where to G Erom Here pu ee eo yer eda 1 3 Configuring Linux OVE VIE Wo ep eR e RE URSI LE CHER LR ETE HE LI OE RU LR EE dde 2 2 Powering up the e oes Rode D ee rae doeet preter ee ett ye eoa 2 3 Configuring the Network Interface sese 2 3 Onboard Integrated Network Interface Controllers eee 2 3 Adding Optional PCI Network Interface Controllers 2 6 Deleting Optional PCI Network Interface Controller Settings sss 2 6 Confirming Information IP 4 2 7 Configuring Internal Disk Drives sese nennen 2 8 Disk Administrator Tool 2 20 2 2 000004000000000000000000005000000000000 2
51. een Selected CPU processor is installed and online All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert limit Gray Selected CPU processor is not installed empty 4 10 Monitoring the ft Server DIMM Select the DIMM folder Data Viewer displays the DIMM screen mure patanen File Edit view Tools Help CPU Module 1 4 S rs TUNE ESMPRO MIB a3 TUNE DMI EI TUNE FTServer Cil CPU Module 1 CPU Module 8 m Hardware 9 System 9 05 Device amp MA Enclosure Memory Type SDRAM EB Software Revision 17457 8 28 Network Serial Number 10987295 9 98 Expansion Bus Device SPD Revision 02 H E BIOS 2 Clock Frequency 100 MHz Local Polling Self Refresh Support 98 File System Refresh Rate 15 625 MicroSecond Error Correction ECC ECC Information Threshold Exceeded Within the limits of threshold Correctable Errors 0 TA intermittent Errors 0 Maintenance EjUncorrectable Errors 0 E rt Manufacture Information 2 cPU JEDEC ID 0000 Samsung B m DIMM Location Code 1 m 1 oIMM Part Number M3 90516200 1 75 2 DIMM Manufactured Date 3 bIMM Specific Data 4 bIMM m 8 a Status Online 8 SCSI Enclosure warning B Abnormal For Help press F1 The DIMM
52. el 0 TUNE FTServer Model Name 243530153 EH IBI CPU Module Description G7FMU 1 CPU Module 19 General IDPROM update function is not IDPROM Update supported Maintenance ceu r Firmware a omm Press the Firmware Update button to Firmware Update 2 CPU Module update Firmware PCI Module SCSI Enclosure r Jump Switch Press the Jump Switch button to switch 2 ump Switch Jump Switch For Help press F1 r IDPROM Information Normal warning B Abnormal The Update display screen allows the device identification information of the CPU modules to be viewed and the firmware of the CPU modules to be updated Firmware Update This function is not supported remotely Jump Switch This function is not supported remotely Monitoring the ft Server 4 7 Maintenance Select the Maintenance folder Data Viewer displays the CPU module Maintenance screen 1 Eile Edit View Tools Help Bl CPU Module gt amp Sal gt S rs rs e TUNE ESMPRO MIB TA Maintenance Hardware System K 9 5 Device Enclosure r Bring Up Bring Down Press the Bring Up button to bring the CPU lodule up press the Bring Down button to Software 5 28 Network 8 90 Expansion Bus Device BB S bring the CPU Module down Bring Down Local Polling P
53. er Data Viewer displays the PCI module General screen LE alex Elle Edit view Tools Help 9 PCI Module I 58 BE TUNE ESMPRO MIB Hardware m System I 95 Device 9 Enclosure General Model Name 243 630154 B H Software Description G7FMV 5 3 Network Type Core 8 9 Expansion Bus Device Bus Number 0 9 8 BIOS i Device Number 5 Local Polling Version ASIC 9 18 File System Logic Revision 2 a TUNE DMI gt TUNE FTServer 2 80 CPU Module H E 1 CPU Module 2 CPU Module Efl Pct Module c Bl Module Legacy Compatibility Mode Active 4 Duplex General Update Maintenance 1JPCr Slot 2 PCI Slot 3 PCI Slot 4 PCI Slot E SCSI Adapter RB m Ethernet Board c Bl 2 1 Module 8 SCSI Enclosure For Help press F1 Normal warning B Abnormal The General screen displays technical information about the selected PCI module Status Status of this PCI module The color of this display indicates the current status of the PCI module as compared to set threshold values of components in the PCI module Green Selected PCI module is up Duplex indicates companion PCI module is also up All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit Simplex indicates the companion CPU module is down Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert l
54. g these functions MTBF Clear lt Clear gt CPU Module Start Sto Stop Start gt CPU Module Diagnosis Firmware Update K Update gt Board Switch Change gt Dump x Dump When Module Stopped gt Dump Without stopping System Current state DUPLEX MTBF Information Clear The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a CPU Module may be cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component Each time a fault occurs in a component in a CPU module the module recalculates the MTBF of the component If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated MTBF is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs amp Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Procedure To clear the MTBF information of the CPU module click on the MTBF button displayed in the ft Server Utility CPU module screen 4 28 Monitoring the ft Server Start Stop Using the ft Server Utility you can bring the selected CPU module up or down When a module is brought down stopped firmware in this module may be updated or this
55. gent in a desired directory specify the directory with a full path name starting with Do not specify only A message is displayed indicating the end of installation Restart the system The functions of the installed NEC ESMPRO Agent are enabled when the system has restarted IMPORTANT To get NEC ESMPRO Agent to report data to NEC ESMPRO Manager set a reporting method by the report setting function after restarting the system For the setting of a reporting method read the explanation later This completes the installation Updating the Agent 1 Login the system as a root authorized user 2 Insert the provided CD ROM 2 into the CD ROM drive 3 Enter the following command to mount the CD ROM The procedure here is explained with the mount point as mnt cdrom mount mnt cdrom 4 Move to the directory containing the setup program cd mnt cdrom nec Linux esmpro sa 5 Execute the setup program ESMinstall The setup program starts and displays the following menu 1 Install 2 UnInstall 3 Exit 3 4 ESMPRO Agent for Linux 6 Select 1 from the menu Selecting 3 terminates operation without installing NEC ESMPRO Agent The following menu is displayed 1 Rebuild data 2 Keep Current Setting 3 Exit 7 Select 2 for to install updated NEC ESMPRO Agent while keeping the current settings Select 1 to install updated NEC ESMPRO Agent after clearing all the current settings Selecting 3
56. hardware ID addresses The SYSTEM area shows information on the standard internal SCSI disk The EXTENSION area shows information on SCSI disks connected to an optional SCSI board installed in a PCI slot of a PCI module slot SCSI disk slot No name Device name use Current use count serial lt serial number tuple lt SCSI tuple gt path SCSI path Configuring Linux 2 11 The following are determined SCSI tuple b lt BUS No gt t lt TARGET No gt 1 lt LUN gt lt SCSI path gt d lt DOMAIN No gt H lt HOST No gt c lt CHANNEL No gt t lt TARGET No gt 1 lt LUN gt The tuple and path first displayed for a device correspond to the primary path used to access the device NOTE If an extension SCSI board is mounted in a PCI slot topology setting is necessary To confirm the software RAID execute Status Raid A RAID status display sample is shown below Status Raid name partition label status member mdo boot boot DUPLEX 1 sdal 4 sdd1 mdl usr usr DUPLEX 1 sda5 4 sdd5 mda home home DUPLEX 1 sdalO 4 sdd10 md3 var var DUPLEX 1 sda6 4 sdd6 md4 DUPLEX 1 sda8 4 sdd8 md5 tmp tmp DUPLEX 1 sda9 4 sdd9 md6 swap tmp DUPLEX 1 sda7 4 sdd7 name Software RAID device name partition Mount point or swap If neither mount point nor swap is displayed the RAID is configured but it is not mounted as a file system member
57. he SNMP settings man snmpd conf For example the following text gives the public community READ WRITE access in the default etc snmp snmpd conf file THHER Third create a view for us to let the group have rights to name incl excl subtree mask optional view all included 1 80 HHHH Finally grant the group read only access to the systemview view group context sec model sec level prefix read write notif access notConfigGroup vl noauth exact all all none New Installation 1 Login the system as a root authorized user 2 Insert the provided CD ROM 2 into the CD ROM drive 3 Enter the following command to mount the CD ROM The procedure here is explained with the mount point as mnt cdrom mount mnt cdrom 4 Move to the directory containing the setup program cd mnt cdrom nec Linux esmpro sa 5 Execute the setup program ESMinstall The setup program starts and displays the following menu 1 Install 2 UnInstall 3 Exit 6 Select 1 from the menu ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 3 Selecting 3 terminates operation without installing NEC ESMPRO Agent A message is displayed prompting you to enter the directory where NEC ESMPRO Agent is to be installed ESMPRO SA gt Specify an arbitrary directory If you do not specify any directory and press Enter NEC ESMPRO Agent is installed in the following directory lopt nec esmpro sa IMPORTANT When installing NEC ESMPRO A
58. ht 7 left epro01 06 UP LINK right epro09 06 UP LINK vndctl status 7 Confirm that IP addresses and other information are set as specified Type Virtual Network Status virtual status config slot real s haO OKAY yes 7 01 06 09 06 Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 E0O UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST Metric 1 collisions 0 txqueuelen O status link 01 06 UP real 7 left slot LINK Metric 1 collisions 0 txqueuelen 100 Interrupt 15 Base address 0x8000 right epro09 06 UP LINK Metric 1 collisions 0 txqueuelen 100 Interrupt 21 Base address 0x3000 inet addr 192 168 8 10 Bcast 192 168 255 255 Mask 255 255 0 0 RX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU 1500 RX packets 4989 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX 0 errors 0 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 Link encap Ethernet HWaddr 00 00 4C 0F F7 EO UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU 1500 RX packets 11186 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 4086 errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 MTU 1500 Configuring Linux 2 5 Adding Optional PCI Network Interface Controllers Optional PCI network interface controllers NICs are added to your server in pairs one controller to each PCI module to ensure total
59. iggers a fatal alert Lower Warning The low voltage limit that triggers a warning alert ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 21 Watchdog Timer Properties Properties Monitor OS Stall Timeout Interval Action When Timeout MIZNMITdSPSUTEISSS 2 Action After Timeout TT 0 Monitor OS Stall Server When this item is checked the watch dog timer on the mother board in the Agent sends a message to ESMPRO Manager when it detects that the operating system in the Agent is hung amp Note Your computer must be restarted before this setting takes effect Monitor System Hangs SMB Check this box to enable the watch dog timer to monitor the Agent If the operating system hangs in the Agent a timeout message to is sent to the ESMPRO Manager and the Agent is rebooted The watch dog timer sends a signal to the server periodically and waits for a response The signal is sent at intervals defined by the Interval field If the server doesn t respond in the time period shown in the Timeout field the server is assumed to be hung A message is sent to the ESMPRO Manager and the Agent is rebooted amp Note Your computer must be restarted before this setting takes effect Timeout The watch dog timer sends a signal to the server and waits for a response If the server doesn t respond in the time set here the server is assumed to be hung Interval The frequency of the test signals Action When Timeout None
60. ile as all customization concerning the installation of the fault tolerant modules is performed here Do not modify these commands or the fault tolerance of your system is not guaranteed When modifying partitioning during installation be sure to declare only mirror partitions and of a different size If you do not use mirror partitions the fault tolerance of your system is not guaranteed A known bug in the Anaconda installer mixes up the raid volumes if you declare same size partitions Use a slightly different size For example if you want to create two mirrored 1GB partitions to mount on mountl and mount2 do not use part raid mla size 1024 ondisk sda part raid m1b size 1024 ondisk sdb part raid m2a size 1024 ondisk sda part raid m2b size 1024 ondisk sdb raid mountI level 1 device raid mla raid m1b raid mount2 level 1 device md1 raid m2a raid m2b Use part raid mla size 1024 ondisk sda part raid m1b size 1024 ondisk sdb part raid m2a size 1000 ondisk sda part raid m2b size 1000 ondisk sdb raid mountI level 1 device raid mla raid m1b raid mount2 level 1 device md1 raid m2a raid m2b Do not attempt to configure X The X server is currently not supported You can however install X packages to support X clients 2 22 Configuring Linux Perform the following steps to reinstall Linux 1 Insert the install disk into the floppy disk drive and insert b
61. imit Gray Selected PCI module is down 4 12 Monitoring the ft Server Update Select the Update folder Data Viewer displays the PCI module Update screen File Edit view Tools Help TUNE ESMPRO MIB Hardware E System Device Enclosure Software H A Network Expansion Bus Device BIOS Local Polling File System TUNE DMI TUNE FTServer CPU Module ial 1 CPU Module aS 2 CPLI Module 5 88 Pct Module c Bl Module 2 General emm Maintenance siot 3 2 PCI slot 3 3 PCI slot 4 PCI Slot SCSI Adapter 8 Ethernet Board BB z PCI Module SCSI Enclosure For Help press F1 r IDPROM Information Magic ID Version EEPROM Version Serial Number Artwork Revision ECO Level Partner ECO Level Model Name Description supported 3 161370 crc 243 630154 B G7FMV IDPROM update function is not IDPRGM Update Normal Warning M Abnormal The Update screen displays technical information about the selected Prom located in the selected PCI Module Monitoring the ft Server 4 13 Maintenance Select the Maintenance folder Data Viewer displays the PCI module Maintenance screen TUNE Data iewer E xl Eile Edit view Tools Help 8 PCI Module amp 4 gt alia Sle P re fel TUNE ESMPRO MIB 8
62. le recalculates the MTBF of the component If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated MTBF is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs amp Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF SCSI Adapter Diagnostics SCSI Adapter Diagnostics is not supported 4 34 Monitoring the ft Server Ethernet Board MIF Clear MTBF Information Clear The MTBF Mean Time Between Failures information of a PCI Module may be cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component Each time a fault occurs in a component in a PCI module the module recalculates the MTBF of the component If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions W Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs amp Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the thre
63. m RAID status of internal SCSI disks m Recover RAID of internal SCSI disks m Add internal SCSI disks m Remove internal SCSI disks A ftdiskadm display sample is shown below ftdiskadm Command action 1 gt SCSI 2 gt RAID 3 gt Environment 9 Quit Command 2 Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETURN Command 2 10 Configuring Linux Confirming SCSI Disk Status Use the ftdiskadm command to confirm SCSI disk status The following is a display sample when Status All Disks of gt RAID is executed SCSI DISK STATUS BUS bu pci haddr 8 0 01 05 00 10 5 0 09 05 01 11 5 1 1 01 05 01 10 5 1 09 05 00 11 5 0 2 01 02 00 10 2 0 3 09 02 00 11 2 0 SYSTEM slot name use serial tuple path 1 sda 7 2 1 0000021369 bOtOlO dl1hOcOtOlO F 1 1 11010 2 3 4 sdd 7 3BT2BOC300002135HR 10010 dlhOcltOlO WG d1hlcOtOlO 5 6 EXTENSION name use serial tuple path sdg 0 00009243 10220000 b3tOlO dOh3cOtOlO b2t0lO dOh2cOtOlO sdh 0 00009243 10220001 b3tOll dOh3cOtOll b2t0ll 2 01011 sdk 0 00009243 10220002 b3t0l2 dOh3cOtO0l2 b2t012 2 01012 The BUS area shows SCSI bus information bus SCSI BUS No pci PCI BUS No gt lt PCI SLOT No gt lt CHANNEL No haddr hardware address See Table 3 1 for a listing of
64. mbered 1 to 6 left to right but the SCSI ID is numbered 0 1 2 0 1 2 When mirrored into two pair of three logical disk drives the first mirrored pair consists of hard disks 1 and 4 SCSI ID 0 the other two disk mirrored pairs are hard disks 2 and 5 SCSI ID 1 and hard disks 3 and 6 SCSI ID 2 A duplex access channel is implemented by giving each group of drives separate channels from two PCI modules Physical access channels for internal SCSI disks are set in dual configuration as shown in the below table Dual channel access to all drives is available from either PCI module Refer to the table below The server also provides a single channel for general SCSI disks Channels for SCSI Disks PCH Channel1 SCSI Slot 1 2 3 PCl1 Channel2 SCSI Slot 4 5 6 PCI2 Channel1 SCSI Slot 4 5 6 PCI2 Channel2 SCSI Slot 1 2 3 The table below shows the correlation between the SCSI disk slot numbers and device names Use the device names to access the internal SCSI disks and perform operations Slot number Device name 1 sda scb sdc sdd sde sdf IMPORTANT When a disk is added or RAID is rebuilt each disk enters the RES YNCING or RECOVERY state While the disks are in this state do not remove them turn off the power or restart the system Wait until RESYNCING or RECOVERY has completed You can confirm the current RAID status by ex
65. mittent Errors Maintenance i Uncorrectable Errors 0 D Chipset Information E 2 CPU Module ane Ded PCI Module 5 51 Enclosure Capabilit alse Status Duplex For Help press F1 Normal Warning M Abnormal 4 4 Monitoring the ft Server Starting the Data Viewer To start the Data Viewer 1 2 From the ESMPRO Manager Operation Window select your ft Server Agent icon Select any one of the following Data Viewer from the Tools menu m Data Viewer icon in the toolbar m Data Viewer from the Command menu displays when you right click on the server or desktop icon amp Note if the Data Viewer icon is grayed out or if it doesn t appear in the Command menu the icon you selected was detected as a system on the network but is not running Agent software If the Agent software was installed check the addresses of the destination traps on the server Also be sure the trap service is running on the server At times it may appear that your system is hung while discovering a new Data Viewer tree for your server The discovery process is still active but due to the traffic on your network or resource limitations on the Managers workstation the system appears to have slowed down or hung Do not reboot the system As long as you don t have an error message the system is still working Monitoring the ft Server 4 5 CPU Modules General Your ft server inclu
66. n Delay Setting 3 15 F ft Server Data Viewer CPU 4 10 CPU module 4 6 Dimms 4 11 PCI module 4 12 SCSI adapter 4 20 ft server utility CPU module 4 28 PCI module 4 32 introduction 4 2 maintenance 4 3 maintenance functions 4 3 monitoring Data viewer 4 4 ft server utility 4 27 ft server utility starting 4 27 L Linux agent event setting 3 12 syslog events setting 3 13 P PCI Module monitoring with data viewer 4 12 monitoring with ft server utility 4 32 R Related documents 1 3 Remote shutdown setting shutdown delay in the Alert Manager 3 15 Report Setting Linux base setting 3 7 manager SNMP trap setting 3 8 S SCSI adapter monitoring with data viewer 4 20 Shutdown Delay Setting dialog box 3 15 SNMP community setting in the Agent 3 15 setting in the Agent 3 15 Starting Data Viewer from ESMPRO Manager 4 5 T Temperature settings Agent Linux 3 19 V Voltage thresholds Agent 3 21 W Watch dog timer 3 22 Windows 2000 overview 2 2 Index 1 455 01664 001
67. n Retry Percentage The number of collision errors as a percentage of all transmitted packets during the Sampling Interval Errors here may indicate that the network traffic is extremely heavy You might try reducing the network traffic to this server Transmission Abort Percentage The percentage of packets discarded due to excess collisions Errors here may indicate that the network traffic is extremely heavy Try reducing the network traffic to this server Temperature Properties Temperature is measured by hardware thermal sensors On the Temperature tab set temperature limits and reset values that determine the status of the Agent and generate alert messages Temperature status is displayed in the Enclosure folder in the Data Viewer You can also set temperature limits and reset values there as well Thermal sensor The location of the temperature sensor Enable threshold Check this box to make these settings effective now Leave it unchecked to store settings for future use Thresholds can also be set in the Data Viewer at the ESMPRO Manager Fatal high report fatal high limit When the temperature exceeds this value a fatal alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes to abnormal The fatal high limit must meet the following conditions ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 19 Fatal High Limit Fatal High Reset Warning High Limit Warning High Reset The high temperature limit can range from 30 C to
68. nformation pertaining to the BMC in the selected PCI module Monitoring the ft Server 4 23 Ethernet Board General Select the General folder Data Viewer displays the Ethernet board General Screen Ek zax File Edit view Tools Help 8 PCI Module amp 4 rs 9 8 Network PO General 9 90 Expansion Bus Device 9 8 BIOS Local Polling Ej File System E aJ TUNE DMI Current Address 00 00 4 71 1 4 amp f TUNE Frserver Maximum Speed 10 Mbps CPU Module Transmit Type Half B PCI Module Permanent Address 00 00 4 71 1 4 2 8 1 PCI Module Status Duplex General Update Maintenance E E Slot 2 PCI Slot Slot 4 PCI Slot SCSI Adapter General am Update Maintenance 1 5CSI Bus 2 5C5I Bus 8 emc B EA Ethernet Board General 2 Detail Mj Maintenance 2 1 Module 55 www For Help press F1 Normal warning B Abnormal The Ethernet board screen displays summary technical information pertaining to the selected Ethernet board The current status of the adapter is also displayed Status Status of this Ethernet board located in the selected PCI module The color of this display indicates the current status of the SCSI adapter as compared to the set threshold values Green Selected Ethernet board is up Duplex indicates companion Ethernet board in the other PCI module i
69. ng is an example of configuring additional internal SCSI disks in slots 3 and 6 by using ftdiskadm ftdiskadm Command action 1 gt SCSI 2 gt RAID 3 gt Environment 9 Quit Command 2 Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 lt RETURN Command 4 New Disks Which SCSI SLOT 1 6 3 see Note 1 Input the LABEL 1 12 character s extra See Note 2 Making the disk partition table SLOT 3 SIZE 17343 MB How many partitions 1 12 3 see Note 3 Input the SIZE of partition 1 1 16318 MB 1024 Input the SIZE of partition 5 1 15295 MB 2048 partition 6 14271 Are you sure to create it y n y Notes 1 2 Specify a SCSI slot number with a disk inserted in the slot At this time another disk must also be inserted in the slot paired with the specified one Enter the disk label if necessary If the disk is used as a single partition the value entered as the disk label is used as is If the disk is used divided into multiple partitions entered value_s lt partition number gt is used You can change the disk label later by using a command such as e2label Enter the number of partitions into which the disk is to be divided Enter the size of each partition in MB units The size of the last partition is the remaining area which is automatically allocated The partition number 1 is followed by 5 and the
70. nsion Bus Device BIOS Local Polling File System gi TUNE DMI TUNE Frserver CPU Module a 8 PCI Module 8B Module E 9 09 88 General Update e Maintenance siot FE General a Maintenance PCI Device 9 General 18 Detail 2 PCI slot 3 slot Z3 4 PCI Slot SCSI Adapter BMC For Help press F1 Fast Back To Back Capability Support Master Data Parity Error Not Support Signaled SERR Not Support Detected Parity Error Not Support BIST Capability Not Support BIST Status 0 Expansion ROM Not Available Expansion ROM Base Address 0 00000000 Cache Line Size 0 Latency Timer 0 Base Address Register Memory Space Below 4GB True OxDO00 Memory Space Below 4GB False 0 00000 vw 4 Interrupt Pin 1 Interrupt Line g Minimum Grant Time Ons Maximum Latency Time Ons Capabilities Count 0 PCI2 2 Device Capability To 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 E Normal Warning B Abnormal The Detail screen displays detailed technical information about the selected PCI device connected to the PCI adapter located in the selected PCI slot Monitoring the ft Server 4 19 SCSI Adapter General Select the General folder Data Viewer displays the SCSI Adapter General screen The SCSI adapter is located within the selected PCI module 1 File Edit view Tools Help s
71. nt occur Then tab to Add and press ENTER to add the selected method to the Report to list Report to Lists the active method of reporting an event Agent Monitoring Selecting ESMagntconf at the ESMPRO ServerA gent menu displays the Agent Properties menu Here you can establish threshold limits and reset values for a number of parameters monitored by the Agent Agent Properties are described in detail later in this chapter At the Agent you can establish threshold limits and reset values for a number of parameters These settings can also be made with ESMPRO Manager However setting monitoring intervals for these parameters can only be done in the Agent 1 Login the system as a root authorized user 2 Move to the directory containing NEC ESMPRO Agent If no particular installation destination is specified NEC ESMPRO Agent is installed in opt nec esmpro sa The procedure here is explained with NEC ESMPRO Agent installed in lopt nec esmpro sa opt nec esmpro sa 3 Move to the directory containing Control Panel cd bin 4 Start Control Panel JESMagntconf The Control Panel window appears emperature 3 14 ESMPRO Agent for Linux General Properties Enable the ESMPRO Manager to modify SNMP Setting Indicates whether the Manager can modify server parameters via SNMP A check enables Manager modifications no check disallows Manager changes Enable Remote Shutdown Reboot Specifies whether the M
72. nues normal operation They may be executed at the managed ft server or from the ESMPRO management console The table below lists the Express5800 ft Server major management and maintenance tasks that can be executed using ESMPRO Express5800 ft Server ESMPRO T nction or tool ESMPRO function or tool management task E e ExpressS800 ft o management console Monitoring of major ESMPRO Manager component states data viewer Start stop of major ESMPRO Agent ESMPRO Manager udo Express5800 ft server utility data viewer BMC F W update ESMPRO BMC update utility Confirmation of alert or ESMPRO Manager fault event information Alert Viewer ne of H W error ESMPRO Manager og If a major component fails the ESMPRO fault report function notifies the system administrator of the occurrence of the fault In addition the data viewer of ESMPRO Server Manager monitors the system status and identifies the faulty component 4 2 Monitoring the ft Server Express5800 ft Maintenance Express5800 ft series maintenance can be performed in two ways one is to use ESMPRO Manager for remote maintenance and the other is to use the ft Server Utility located on the managed Express5800 ft server Note To start NEC ESMPRO Agent ft server utility installed in the NEC Express5800 ft type opt nec esmpro sa ESMftcutil The maintenance functions that can be executed from ESMPRO include three ty
73. odule may be cleared initialized Your server manages the MTBF of each component Each time a fault occurs in a component in a PCI module the module recalculates the MTBF of the component If the calculated value is lower than the pre defined threshold the system performs one of the following predefined three functions m Use Threshold MTBF is calculated when a fault occurs If calculated is below the set threshold value the device is stopped m Never Restart The device is stopped whenever a fault occurs m Always Restart The device is rebooted whenever a fault occurs 4 32 Monitoring the ft Server Note A disabled component with the MTBF lower than the threshold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Procedure To clear the MTBF information of the PCI module click on the MTBF button displayed in the ft Server Utility PCI module screen Start Stop Using the ft Server Utility you can bring the selected PCI module up or down When a module is brought down stopped this module can safely be removed from your server If one PCI module is down or removed the system continues normal operation using the companion PCI module Note In the following procedure PCI module 1 will be brought down Procedure 1 Select the PCI module 1 using the ft Server Utility See above screen 2 Atthe front of the ft server check the current state of the fail and state LEDs of the target PCI mo
74. of this PCI adapter in this PCI slot The color of this display indicates the current status of the adapter in this PCI slot as compared to the predefined threshold values set for this adapter The color of this display indicates the current status of the adapter as compared to the set threshold values Green A PCI adapter is installed online All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert limit Gray PCI adapter not installed empty 4 16 Monitoring the ft Server Maintenance Select the Maintenance folder Data Viewer displays the PCI slot Maintenance screen alate File Edit View Tools Help zi TUNE ESMPRO MIB AE Maintenance Hardware gw System I O Device Bl Enclosure Software BY Network Press the Bring Up button to bingthe PCL 2 10 89 90 Expansion Bus Device Slot up H B BIOS Local Polling File System gi TUNE DMI TUNE Frserver CPU Module E PCI Module Bg m 1 PCI Module General f Update 2 Maintenance lo 9 4 PCI Device 2 PCI slot SS 3 PCI Slot Slot m f SCSI Adapter IR m Ethernet Board E z PCI Module zl For Help press F1 Normal Warning Abnormal Bring Up Demand Bringing up individual slots with in the PCI module is not currently supported Monit
75. operating system Power Down default The system is shutdown completely and powered OFF ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 23 ESMPRO Agent Considerations Module Status Messages A message indicating the change of module status may be sent twice Devices Not Supported Monitoring of the SCSI enclosures SCSI electronics SCSI slots and SCSI buses is not supported Unknown is displayed for unsupported devices displayed in the data viewer Disk failures reported to the ESMPRO Manager are confirmed using the alert viewer Monitoring with NEC ESMPRO Manager Version 3 7 or Before Some items cannot be monitored with NEC ESMPRO Manager version 3 7 or before In addition some malfunctions may occur in the disk array monitoring function of the data viewer Use of NEC ESMPRO Manager version 3 8 or later is highly recommended Display of the Ethernet Board Status Failure may be displayed as an Ethernet board status during PCI module startup Once PCI module startup has completed and SIMPLEX or DUPLEX indicating the normal PCI module state is displayed the correct Ethernet board status is displayed Change of Installation States of CPU and PCI Modules When you change the configuration of a CPU or PCI module using data viewer a message prompting you to reconstruct the tree of the data viewer displays If you click on the Yes button the tree is reconstructed in the data viewer to reflect the change of the system configuration Cli
76. or Linux IP Address The address or name of the remote manager Make sure the remote manager is not also specified as the trap destination on the SNMP service If a duplicate is made more than one alert will be reported Port Number The port number used for communication between sockets The same port number must be set for both the agent and the remote manager The default value is 31134 Manager IP Out of Band When you define a destination ID based on this method you provide RAS address information and can also specify a reporting schedule IP Address The IP address of the remote manager Phone Number The telephone number of the remote manager s modem line User A user name for the remote manager Password The user s password Port Number The port number used for communication between sockets The same port number must be set for both the agent and the remote manager The default value is 31134 ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 11 Agent Events Setting The Agent Events Setting menu lets you configure internal events generated by the Agent Selecting Agents Events Setting at the Report Setting menu displays the Agent Events Setting menu Source The origin of a particular Agent event Event ID The destination ID of a particular Agent event Monitar Add TCP_IP OUT OF BAND TCP_IP IN BAND p lt Remove gt Source The origin of a particular Agent event Event ID The destination
77. oring the ft Server 4 17 PCI Device General Select the General folder Data Viewer displays the PCI Device General screen of TUNE DataViewer File Edit Tools Help 18 xl E TUNE ESMPRO MIB 2 Hardware EM System 10 Device Enclosure E B Software 9 28 Network Expansion Bus Device H E 105 Local Polling 4 File System TUNE DMI EE TUNE FTServer ff CPU Module B PCI Module 2 88 1 1 Module General Update 2 Maintenance Slot General Maintenance Slot 4 PCI Slot SCSI Adapter B 8 emc For Help press F1 mim el Bus Number 2 Device Number 0 Function Number 0 Vendor ID 159C Device ID 711 Revision ID 0054 Subsystem Vendor ID 159C Subsystem ID 7117 Class Code Display Controller Sub Class Code 0 Programming Interface 0 E Normal Warning Abnormal The General screen displays a summary of technical information about the selected PCI device connected to the PCI adapter located in the selected PCI slot 4 18 Monitoring the ft Server Detail Select the Detail folder Data Viewer displays the PCI Device Detail screen E TUNE pataviewer lL x File Edit view Tools Help Aef ala sle e rs mms TUNE ESMPRO MIB Hardware gw System Detail 3 JO Device Enclosure Software Ba Network Expa
78. pes those common to all components those specific to particular components and general system settings The table below lists the maintenance functions for specific components in your server and indicates how the functions of these components may be executed Control Component Function NETTE Manager module Start Stop yes yes CPU module MTBF Log Clear yes yes module Diagnostics no no Firmware Update yes no Dump Acquisition during operation yes yes Dump Acquisition stopped module yes no Board Switch no no PCI module module Start Stop yes yes MTBF Log Clear yes yes module Diagnostics no no Ethernet Adapter MTBF Log Clear yes yes SCSI Bus Bus Reset no yes SCSI Enclosure MTBF Log Clear no no SCSI Electronics SCSI Slot BMC Firmware Update yes no System Quick Dump Auto firmware Update Auto no no module Start SCSI Disk Preventive Disk Maintenance Setup yes no SCSI Adapter MTBF Log Clear yes yes Monitoring the ft Server 4 3 Monitoring ft Server Using ESMPRO Manager The Data Viewer lets you check hardware and software features on servers monitored by ESMPRO Manager The left pane of the Data Viewer display contains a directory of categories for the server or desktop Click on to expand the directory and to contract it Highlighting a category displays information in the right pane In the tree view you may see one of three major folders labeled
79. ress the Dump button to hold Dump Dump 8 File System TUNE DMI E El TUNE FTServer rm MTBF Information E CPU Module Type Use Threshold B 1 CPU Module Threshold 300 Sec General Current 08 Update Faults 0 Maintenance Time of last fault Press the MTBF Clear button to clear MTBF Ch 8 M DIMM the MTBF information _MTBF Clear 2 CPU Module 2 PCI Module H E SCSI Enclosure Diagnostics Information Time of last Result Message 0 TesNume For Help press F1 mE Abnormal Bring Up Bring Down Using the Maintenance screen you can bring the selected CPU module up or down When a module is brought down stopped firmware in this module may be updated or this module can safely be removed from your server If one CPU module is down or removed the system continues normal operation using the companion CPU module amp Note In the following procedure CPU module 1 will be brought down Procedure 1 In Data Viewer select the General folder of CPU module 1 The General screen displays 2 Check the current state of the Status display located at the bottom of this screen A green Status display indicates the CPU module is up a gray Status display indicates the CPU module is already down 3 Switch to CPU 1 module Maintenance folder and click on the Bring Down button to bring down CPU module 1 4 Select the Gener
80. rticular event you associate one or more destination IDs with the event number When the Agent detects that event assuming the Agent has been set to monitor that event number the Agent performs the action specified by the method that the destination ID is based on Message Press ENTER to display the message about seleted ID or group Select Add or Modify in the destination ID Setting menu to display the ID Setting menu When you define a destination ID based on the Manager SNMP method the destination address is determined by the IP addresses set as the SNMP trap destinations ID Setting Method Address Schedule ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 9 Scheduling Responses You can schedule which hours of the day a particular destination ID is active For example you can set the agent to respond to the same alert type by displaying a message during regular working hours Selecting Schedule from the ID Setting menu above displays the Schedule menu A schedule can be set for each destination ID In the schedule set a report retry interval which is usually set in the range of 1 to 30 minutes Set the retry expiration time in the range of 0 to 240 hours and set the report time table periods Manager IP In Band When you define a destination ID based on this method you specify the destination IP address or host name and destination port number and can also specify a reporting schedule 3 10 ESMPRO Agent f
81. rver 4 29 CPU Module Diagnostic CPU Module Diagnostic is not supported Firmware Update To update the firmware of a CPU module the firmware image file of the updated firmware must previously be stored on the hard drive in the ft server During the firmware update procedure you specify the absolute path of the firmware image The CPU module requiring the firmware update is brought down stopped prior to beginning the update The companion CPU module continues operation After the first CPU module is updated firmware in the second CPU module can be updated automatically if the Enable automatic firmware update is enabled in the ft server Firmware Update Procedure amp Note You must bring down the CPU module before you update the firmware In this procedure CPU module 1 will be updated first followed by CPU module 2 1 Save the image data of the firmware update in an arbitrary directory on the ft server hard disk drive noting the path to this directory 2 Inthe ft server utility select CPU Module 1 The above screen displays 3 Atthe front of the ft server check the current state of the fail and state LEDs of the target CPU module 1 Ensure that the CPU module 1 is down The Fail LED should be red and the State LED should be OFF If CPU module 1 is up bring the module down following the Bring Up Bring Down procedures above 4 After CPU module 1 has been brought down click on the Firmware Update button The Firm
82. s KB When this bullet is indicated threshold settings for the drive are active The Report column shows the lower limit for the amount of free disk space in kilobytes KB Fatal Limit When this limit is exceeded a fatal alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes from warning to abnormal When the bullet labeled Enable Threshold ratio of used capacity is indicated this limit is the amount of used disk space A fatal alert message is generated when the amount of used disk space exceeds the amount entered here When the bullet labeled Enable Threshold amount of free bytes KB is indicated this limit is the amount of free disk space A fatal alert message is generated when the amount of free disk space falls below the amount entered here ESMPRO Agent for Linux 3 17 Fatal Reset When Enable Threshold ratio of used capacity is indicated the Agent status is reset from Abnormal to Warning when the amount of used disk space falls below this value When Enable Threshold amount of free bytes is indicated the Agent status is reset when the amount of free space rises above this value Warning Limit When this limit is exceeded a warning alert message is generated and the status of the Agent changes from normal to warning When the bullet labeled Enable Threshold ratio of used capacity is indicated this limit is the amount of used disk space A warning alert message is generated when the amount of us
83. s also up All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit or companion Ethernet board in the other PCI module is down Simplex Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert limit Gray Ethernet board in this PCI module is down 4 24 Monitoring the ft Server Detail The Detailed Ethernet board screen displays detail technical information pertaining to the selected Ethernet board f TUNE DataViewer El lal ir d 9 Detail Expansion Bus Device ree B 2 PCI Module Monitoring the ft Server 4 25 Maintenance Select the Maintenance folder Data Viewer displays the Ethernet board Maintenance screen i Eile Edit view Tools Help 8 PCI Module 4 gt aa S F re Elm Nel 59 00 Network ma f Maintenance 9 90 Expansion Bus Device 9 89 BIOS Local Polling 8 File System Bring Up Bring Down TUNE DMI B E TUNE FTServer Press the Bring Up button to bring the E CPU Module Ethemet Board up press the Bring Down button to bring the Ethernet Board down B PCI Module 1 1 Module General m MTBF Information Update Type Use Threshold 2 Maintenance Threshold 300 Sec siot Current 2 PCI Slot Faults 0 Slot Time of last fault
84. screen displays information about a specific memory DIMM located in the selected CPU module This information includes DIMM specifications and information about the DIMM manufacturer DIMM Error Correction Code ECC information is also included in this display screen ECC Information ESMPRO monitors and logs correctable intermittent and uncorrectable DIMM errors within predetermined thresholds you set The totals of these errors are displayed in the DIMM screen DIMM errors over a period of time may be viewed in graph form by selecting the graph icon next to the reported error Status Status of this DIMM The color of this display indicates the current status of the selected DIMM within the selected CPU module as compared to the threshold values set for the DIMM Green Selected DIMM is installed and online All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert limit Gray Selected DIMM is not installed empty Monitoring the ft Server 4 11 PCI Modules General Your ft server includes two PCI modules that you may monitor using the Data Viewer Each PCI module contains four PCI adapter card slots and three embedded adapters LAN SCSI disk and BMC When you select a PCI module seven folder icons display General Update Maintenance PCI Slot SCSI Adapter BMC and Ethernet Board Select the General fold
85. shold can be forcibly enabled by clearing the MTBF Monitoring the ft Server 4 35 BMC Firmware The firmware located on the base management controller BMC can be updated using the BMC firmware update utility The screen below displays when the BMC folder in the ft server utility is selected amp Note To update the BMC firmware an image of the firmware image file must previously be stored on the server During the firmware update procedure you specify the absolute path of the firmware image on the server as the firmware location Firmware Update Procedure 1 Save the image data of the firmware update in an arbitrary directory on the ft server hard disk drive noting the path to this directory 2 In the ft server utility select the BMC Firmware folder The following screen displays Firmware Update 3 Click on the Update button The BMC FW Update tool screen displays BHC FM update Property Setting update Command C Configuration languagetJapanese Enalish rminate 4 36 Monitoring the ft Server 4 Select BMC FW update Property Setting The BMC FW Update Property Setting screen displays FH update Daemon Property Setting File Path i r bncfwupd data cfwupd hist log 5 Enter the directory in which the updated firmware image is located Step 1 into the Data File Path Other optional parameters may also be entered at this time 6 Down arrow to Data
86. subsequent numbers are assigned in ascending order Since a disk of a specified capacity is reserved for the last partition only a value smaller than the actual disk capacity can be entered The actual capacity of a partition varies slightly depending on the disk structure Finishing the above specification starts creating the RAID configuration If no problems occur the creation of the RAID configuration is completed To confirm the RAID status execute Status Raid in the above Configuring Linux 2 17 Confirm the disk status check if the disk s has been added normally Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 RETURN Command 1 Status Raid name partition label status member boot boot DUPLEX 1 sdal 4 sdd1 mdl usr usr DUPLEX 1 sda5 4 sdd5 gt home home DUPLEX 1 sdalO 4 sdd10 md3 var var DUPLEX 1 sda6 4 sdd6 md4 DUPLEX 1 sda8 4 sdd8 tmp tmp DUPLEX 1 sda9 4 sdd9 md6 swap DUPLEX 1 sda7 4 sdd7 md7 extra 61 RESYNC 9 3 sdcl 6 sdf1 3 extra 55 RESYNC 3 sdc5 6 sdf5 md9 extra s6 RESYNC 3 sdc6 6 sdf6 Command action 1 Status Raid 2 Status All Disks 3 Repair Disk 4 New Disks 5 Remove Half Disk 6 Remove Full Disks 9 RETURN Command 2 18 Configuring Linux Replacing Internal Disk s If an internal SCSI disk problem occurs take the following steps to replac
87. ware Update screen displays Update Method lt E Copy Online To Offline gt File Path Update DataFile Path 4 30 Monitoring the ft Server 5 Enter the directory in which the updated firmware image is located Step 1 After you have entered the absolute path of the firmware image click on the Execute button to update the firmware The Firmware update completed screen displays when the update has completed CAUTION At this point in the firmware update procedure each CPU module may be at different revision levels Perform Step 6 immediately after confirmation that the firmware update has completed in Step 5 6 Atthe FT Server Utility screen select CPU module 2 Click on the Firmware Update button The Firmware Update screen displays Update Method XE Copy Online To Offline gt File Path Update DataFile Path 7 Enter the directory in which the updated firmware image is located Step 1 After you have entered the absolute path of the firmware image click on Execute to update the firmware The Firmware update completed screen displays when the update has completed 8 Bring up CPU module 2 The firmware in both CPU modules has been updated and both CPU modules are up Execute Button Pressing the Execute button dumps the current memory contents to a log file Information in this log file may be used during troubleshooting procedures A memory dump can be made with the CPU module
88. y the Server Utility When the server utility is used to stop the primary PCI module the server utility screen may be difficult to view However in this case there are no functional problems Collection of Dump by the Server Utility When the dump function is executed by the ft server utility messages for the dump to be output by the driver are written over the display on the server utility screen As a result the server utility screen may be difficult to view however there are no functional problems 3 26 ESMPRO Agent for Linux Alert Report Device IDs Alert report Device IDs for the NEC Express5800 ft server are listed in the following table Table 3 1 Alert Report Device IDs Device Name Device ID CPU module 1 0 DIMM1 on CPU module 1 0 0 DIMM2 on CPU module 1 0 1 DIMMS on CPU module 1 0 2 DIMM4 on CPU module 1 0 3 CPU1 on CPU module 1 0 20 CPU2 on CPU module 1 0 21 Power supply unit on CPU module 1 0 100 CPU module 2 1 DIMM1 on CPU module 2 1 0 DIMM2 on CPU module 2 1 1 DIMM3 on CPU module 2 1 2 DIMM4 on CPU module 2 1 3 CPU1 on CPU module 2 1 20 CPU2 on CPU module 2 1 21 Power supply unit on CPU module 1 1 100 PCI module 1 10 PCI slot 1 on PCI module 1 10 0 PCI slot 2 on PCI module 1 10 1 PCI slot 3 on PCI module 1 10 2 PCI slot 4 on PCI module 1 10 3 SCSI adapter 1 on PCI module 1 10 5 SCSI bus 1 of SCSI adapter 1 on PCI module 1 10 5 0 SCSI bus 2 of SCSI adapter 1 on PCI module 1 10
89. ystem loads The login prompt is displayed Logon the system with root For the password see Administrator root password provided with the server The following applications are loaded W apache sendmail bind m NFS NEC ESMPRO Agent Configuring the Network Interface After initial power up of the server the onboard integrated network interface controllers NICs and any installed network controller cards must be configured Onboard Integrated Network Interface Controllers Each PCI module in your server includes a 10 5 100 5 network controller based on the Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet Network Interface Perform the following steps to set a dual configuration for the onboard controllers 1 Logon to the system as root 2 Confirm that NIC information is displayed for slot 7 Type vndctl status Slot 7 is the logical location of the onboard network controllers The following screen displays 1 2 3 Virtual Network Status virtual status config slot real s slot real status link left right left right left right left right left right left right left 01 06 right 09 06 Configuring Linux 2 3 3 Add the NICs of slot 7 to the VND list Type vndctl add 7 4 Confirm the status Type vndctl status 7 Virtual Network Status virtual status config slot real s haO OKAY yes 7 0
90. z fal ego A p e E E TUNE ESMPRO MIB 4 ppm El Hardware Ej System 9 25 Device amp Enclosure H B Software 9 28 Network Expansion Bus Device 9 8 Bos Local Polling Ej File System TUNE DMI 5 83 TUNE FTServer 8 18 CPU Module B PCI Module 8B 1 1 Module Serial Number 877215 Firmware Revision 10 4 8 ROMBIOS Revision 7 17 Status Duplex General Update 2 Maintenance Slot m E 2 SCSI Adapter General 4f Update Maintenance 1 SCSI Bus 2 5 51 Bus BMC For Help press F1 Normal ES warning B abnormal The General screen displays information pertaining to the selected SCSI adapter s serial number firmware release and ROMBIOS revision The current status of the adapter is also displayed Status Status of this SCSI adapter located within the selected PCI module The color of this display indicates the current status of the SCSI adapter as compared to the set threshold values Green Selected SCSI adapter is up Duplex indicates companion SCSI adapter in the other PCI module is also up All values are within threshold limits Yellow Some values have reached the Warning or Minor alert limit or companion SCSI adapter in the other PCI module is down Simplex Red Some values have reached the Fatal or Major alert limit Gray SCSI adapter is down 4 20 Monitoring the ft Server Update Select

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