Lenovo ThinkServer TS130 - Software; Thinkserver Easystartup; Thinkserver Easyupdate Firmware Updater; BIOS Update Utilities

•Errorcodesandmessagestohelpyouidentifyproblems
•Generatingerrorlogsforthepower-onself-test(POST)failures
•Hot-swapSASharddiskdrives
•IntegratedEthernetcontrollers
•IntelligentPlatformManagementInterface(IPMI)2.0
•Power-onself-test(POST)
•Standbyvoltageforsystem-managementfeaturesandmonitoring
•System-errorlight-emittingdiode(LED)onthefrontpanel
•Vitalproductdata(VPD),includingtheserialnumberinformationandreplacementpartnumbers,storedin
thenonvolatilememoryforeasierremotemaintenance
Software
Thistopicprovidesinformationaboutthesoftwareprogramsthatyoucanusetosetup,use,andmaintain
theserver.
ThinkServerEasyStartup
TheThinkServerEasyStartupprogramsimpliestheprocessofconguringRAIDandinstallingsupported
operatingsystemsanddevicedriversonyourserver.Thisprogramisprovidedwithyourserveron
aself-starting(bootable)ThinkServerEasyStartupDVD.Theuserguidefortheprogramalsoisonthe
DVDandcanbeaccesseddirectlyfromtheprograminterface.Fordetailedinformation,see“Usingthe
ThinkServerEasyStartupprogram”onpage74
.
ThinkServerEasyUpdateFirmwareUpdater
TheThinkServerEasyUpdateFirmwareUpdaterprogram(hereinafterreferredtoastheFirmwareUpdater
program)enablesyoutomaintainyourserverrmwareup-to-dateandhelpsyouavoidunnecessaryserver
outages.TheFirmwareUpdaterprogramisavailablefordownloadingfromtheLenovoSupportWebsite.
FormoreinformationaboutdownloadingandusingtheFirmwareUpdaterprogram,see“Updatingthe
rmware”onpage73
.
BIOSupdateutilities
TheBIOSrmwarekeepsupdatingaftertheshipmentoftheserver.LenovomaintainspagesontheSupport
WebsiteandprovidestheBIOSupdateutilitieswithinstructionsfordownloadtohelpyouupdatethe
BIOSrmwareifneeded.Formoreinformation,see“Updatingthermware”onpage73
and“Updating
systemprograms”onpage77.
RAIDcongurationutilities
YourserversupportsonboardSATAsoftwareRedundantArrayofIndependentDisks(RAID).Fordetailed
information,see“ConguringRAID”onpage71.
Diagnosticprograms
Thefollowingdiagnosticprogramsareavailableforyoutodiagnoseserverproblems:
•ThinkServerDiagnosticTool
•ThinkServerSystemProleCollectionTool
Formoreinformation,see“Usingadiagnosticprogram”onpage82
.
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