Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
TX1310 M1
Contents
4.4.3 Removing the front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.5 Reassembling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.5.1 Installing the front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.5.2 Installing accessible drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.5.2.1 Installing the optical disk drive (ODD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.5.2.2 Installing the backup drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.5.3 Installing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.6 Connecting the server to the mains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
4.7 Switching on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.8 Handling the HDD cage with system fan 1 . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.8.1 Removing the HDD cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.8.2 Installing the HDD cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
5 Basic software procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.1 Starting the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.1.1 Disabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.1.2 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
5.1.3 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 65
5.1.4 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . . 65
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . . 68
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . . 68
5.2.2 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.2.3 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . . 69
5.2.4 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 70
5.2.5 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.2.6 Viewing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.2.6.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.2.7 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . . 73
5.2.8 Enabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.2.9 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2.10 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.10.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.11 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.2.12 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.2.12.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.2.12.2 After replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78