4.7 Removing a controller from the riser module . . . . . . . . . 47
4.8 Removing the memory slot air ducts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.9 Installing the memory slot air ducts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.9.1 Design of the memory air ducts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.10 Installing the server node in the server enclosure . . . . . . 50
4.11 Controls and indicators on the server node . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.12 Concluding software tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.1.1 Suspending BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.1.2 Disabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.1.2.1 Viewing boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.1.2.2 Configuring boot watchdog settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.1.3 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5.1.4 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 57
5.1.5 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . . 61
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 61
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 67
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.2.5 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.2.5.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.2.5.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.2.6 Enabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.2.7 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 73
5.2.8 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.2.9 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2.10 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.10.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.10.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.2.11 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . . 77
5.2.12 Resuming BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.2.13 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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