Contents
Safety notices ............v
Chapter 1. Introduction ........1
Related documentation ...........1
Notices and statements ...........2
Features and specifications..........2
Supported DIMMs ............4
Blade server control panel buttons and LEDs . . . 5
Turning on the blade server .........6
Turning off the blade server .........7
System-board layouts ...........8
System-board connectors .........8
System-board LEDs ...........9
Chapter 2. Diagnostics ........11
Diagnostic tools .............11
Collecting dump data ...........13
Location codes .............14
Reference codes .............15
System reference codes (SRCs) .......16
1xxxyyyy SRCs ...........17
6xxxyyyy SRCs ...........21
A1xxyyyy service processor SRCs .....24
AA00E1A8 to AA260005 Partition firmware
attention codes ...........25
Bxxxxxxx Service processor early termination
SRCs ..............28
B200xxxx Logical partition SRCs .....29
B700xxxx Licensed internal code SRCs . . . 39
BA000010 to BA400002 Partition firmware
SRCs ..............48
POST progress codes (checkpoints) .....84
C1001F00 to C1645300 Service processor
checkpoints ............85
C2001000 to C20082FF Virtual service
processor checkpoints .........93
IPL status progress codes .......102
C700xxxx Server firmware IPL status
checkpoints ...........102
CA000000 to CA2799FF Partition firmware
checkpoints ............102
D1001xxx to D1xx3FFF Service processor
dump codes ............120
D1xx3y01 to D1xx3yF2 Service processor
dump codes ...........125
D1xx900C to D1xxC003 Service processor
power-off checkpoints ........128
Service request numbers (SRNs) ......129
Using the SRN tables .........129
101-711 through FFC-725 SRNs .....129
A00-FF0 through A24-xxx SRNs .....157
SCSD Devices SRNs (ssss-102 to ssss-640) 177
Failing function codes 151 through 2E33 . . 181
Error logs ..............183
Checkout procedure ...........184
About the checkout procedure.......184
Performing the checkout procedure .....184
Verifying the partition configuration......186
Running the diagnostics program ......186
Starting AIX concurrent diagnostics .....186
Starting stand-alone diagnostics from a CD . . 187
Starting stand-alone diagnostics from a NIM
server ...............188
Using the diagnostics program ......189
Boot problem resolution ..........190
Troubleshooting tables ..........191
General problems ...........191
Drive problems............192
Intermittent problems .........192
Management module service processor
problems ..............193
Memory problems...........193
Microprocessor problems ........194
Network connection problems.......194
PCI expansion card (PIOCARD) problem
isolation procedure ..........194
Optional device problems ........196
Power problems ...........196
POWER Hypervisor (PHYP) problems ....198
Service processor problems ........200
Software problems...........213
Universal Serial Bus (USB) port problems . . . 213
Light path diagnostics ..........214
Viewing the light path diagnostic LEDs . . . 214
Light path diagnostics LEDs .......215
Isolating firmware problems ........218
Save vfchost map data ..........218
Restore vfchost map data .........219
Recovering the system firmware .......220
Starting the PERM image ........220
Starting the TEMP image ........221
Recovering the TEMP image from the PERM
image ...............221
Verifying the system firmware levels ....221
Committing the TEMP system firmware image 222
Solving shared BladeCenter resource problems . . 222
Solving shared media tray problems.....223
Solving shared network connection problems 225
Solving shared power problems ......225
Solving shared video problems ......226
Solving undetermined problems .......227
Calling IBM for service ..........228
Chapter 3. Parts listing, Type 8406 229
Chapter 4. Removing and replacing
blade server components ......233
Installation guidelines ..........233
System reliability guidelines .......234
Handling static-sensitive devices ......234
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