Lenovo System x3500 M4 - Event Logs

Table13.SystempulseLEDs
LEDDescriptionAction
RTMMheartbeat
Power-onandpower-off
sequencing.
1.IftheLEDblinksat1Hz,itisfunctioning
properlyandnoactionisnecessary.
2.IftheLEDisnotblinking,(trainedtechnician
only)replacethesystemboard.
IMM2heartbeatIMM2heartbeatbootprocess.
Thefollowingstepsdescribethedifferentstages
oftheIMM2heartbeatsequencingprocess.
1.WhenthisLEDisblinkingfast
(approximately4Hz),thisindicates,
thattheIMM2codeisintheloading
process.
2.WhenthisLEDgoesoffmomentarily,this
indicatesthattheIMM2codehasloaded
completely.
3.WhenthisLEDgoesoffmomentarilyand
thenstartsblinkingslowing(approximately
1Hz),thisindicatesthatIMM2isfully
operational.Youcannowpressthe
power-controlbuttontopower-onthe
server.
4.IfthisLEDdoesnotblinkwithin30seconds
ofconnectingapowersourcetotheserver,
(trainedtechnicianonly)replacethesystem
board.
Eventlogs
ErrorcodesandmessagesaredisplayedinPOSTeventlog,system-eventlog,IntegratedManagement
ModuleII(IMM2)eventlog,andDSAeventlog.
•POSTeventlog:Thislogcontainsthemostrecenterrorcodesandmessagesthatweregeneratedduring
POST.YoucanviewthecontentsofthePOSTeventlogfromtheSetuputility(see“StartingtheSetup
utility”onpage107).FormoreinformationaboutPOSTerrorcodes,seeAppendixB“UEFI(POST)error
codes”onpage965.
•System-eventlog:ThislogcontainsPOSTandsystemmanagementinterrupt(SMI)eventsandall
eventsthataregeneratedbythebaseboardmanagementcontrollerthatisembeddedintheIntegrated
ManagementModuleII(IMM2).Youcanviewthecontentsofthesystem-eventlogthroughtheSetup
utilityandthroughtheDynamicSystemAnalysis(DSA)program(asIPMIeventlog).Thesystem-event
logislimitedinsize.Whenitisfull,newentrieswillnotoverwriteexistingentries;therefore,youmust
periodicallyclearthesystem-eventlogthroughtheSetuputility.Whenyouaretroubleshootinganerror,
youmighthavetosaveandthenclearthesystem-eventlogtomakethemostrecenteventsavailablefor
analysis.Formoreinformationaboutthesystem-eventlog,seeAppendixA“IntegratedManagement
ModuleII(IMM2)errormessages”onpage331
.
Messagesarelistedontheleftsideofthescreen,anddetailsabouttheselectedmessagearedisplayed
ontherightsideofthescreen.Tomovefromoneentrytothenext,usetheUpArrow(↑)andDown
Arrow(↓)keys.
SomeIMM2sensorscauseassertioneventstobeloggedwhentheirsetpointsarereached.When
asetpointconditionnolongerexists,acorrespondingdeassertioneventislogged.However,not
alleventsareassertion-typeevents.
•IntegratedManagementModuleII(IMM2)eventlog:ThislogcontainsafilteredsubsetofallIMM2,
POST,andsystemmanagementinterrupt(SMI)events.YoucanviewtheIMM2eventlogthroughthe
IMM2webinterface.Formoreinformation,see“Loggingontothewebinterface”onpage116
.Youcan
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