5.2 Completing the maintenance task . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
5.2.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS and iRMC . . . 134
5.2.1.1 Updating or recovering the system board BIOS . . . . . . . 134
5.2.1.2 Updating or recovering the iRMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
5.2.2 Verifying system information backup / restore . . . . . . . . . 136
5.2.3 Updating RAID controller firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.2.4 Enabling Option ROM scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
5.2.5 Verifying and configuring the backup software solution . . . . . 139
5.2.6 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5.2.6.1 Viewing the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5.2.6.2 Resetting the boot retry counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
5.2.7 Resetting the error status after replacing memory modules
or processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
5.2.7.1 Memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
5.2.7.2 Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
5.2.8 Performing a fan test after replacing a defective fan . . . . . . 145
5.2.9 Enabling SVOM boot watchdog functionality . . . . . . . . . . 146
5.2.10 Enabling replaced components in the system BIOS . . . . . . 147
5.2.11 Verifying the memory mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
5.2.12 Verifying the system time settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
5.2.13 Viewing and clearing the System Event Log (SEL) . . . . . . . 149
5.2.13.1 Viewing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
5.2.13.2 Clearing the SEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
5.2.14 Updating the NIC configuration file in a Linux environment . . . 150
5.2.15 Resuming BitLocker functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
5.2.16 Performing a RAID array rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
5.2.17 Looking up changed MAC / WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . 153
5.2.17.1 Looking up MAC addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
5.2.17.2 Looking up WWN addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
5.2.18 Using the Chassis ID Prom Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
5.2.19 Configuring LAN teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
5.2.19.1 After replacing / upgrading LAN controllers . . . . . . . . . 157
5.2.19.2 After replacing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
5.2.20 Switching off the ID indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
5.2.21 Specifying the chassis model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158