Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M4

RX2540 M4 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Contents
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the BIOS and iRMC S5 . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup/restore . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.2.3 Updating expansion card firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
5.2.5 Reconfiguring the backup software solution . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5.2.7 Resetting the error status after replacing memory modules
or CPUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.2.7.1 Memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.2.7.2 CPUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.2.8 Enabling the boot watchdog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
5.2.9 Enabling replaced components in the BIOS . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.2.10 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.2.11 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
5.2.12 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 110
5.2.12.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.2.12.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.13 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux and VMware
environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.2.14 Resuming BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.2.15 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.2.16 Looking for MAC/WWN/GUID and SAS addresses . . . . . . . 115
5.2.16.1 Looking for the MAC address of a LAN controller . . . . . . 115
5.2.16.2 Looking for the WWN address of a fibre channel controller . 116
5.2.16.3 Looking for the GUID address of an infiniband or Omni-Path
controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.16.4 Looking for SAS addresses of SAS controllers for external
devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.17 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.2.18 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.18.1 After replacing/upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.18.2 After replacing a system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.19 Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.2.20 Performing a fan test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121