TX140 S1 Upgrade and Maintenance Manual
Contents
5.1.3 Removing backup and optical disk media . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
5.1.4 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 96
5.1.5 Note on server maintenance in a Multipath I/O environment . . 97
5.1.6 Switching on the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 100
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 100
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . . 104
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 107
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
5.2.7 Enabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . 110
5.2.8 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . . 111
5.2.9 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
5.2.10 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
5.2.11 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 113
5.2.11.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
5.2.11.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
5.2.12 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . 114
5.2.13 Enabling BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
5.2.14 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.15 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.15.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
5.2.15.2 Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
5.2.16 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.17 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
5.2.17.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . 120
5.2.17.2 After replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.2.18 Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
5.2.19 Specifying the chassis model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
6 Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
6.1 Standard power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.1.1 Replacing the standard power supply unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.1.1.1 Required tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
6.1.1.2 Preliminary steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124