Lenovo x3650 M5 - Post

Table6.Methodsforviewingeventlogs
ConditionAction
Theserverisnothungandisconnectedtoanetwork
(usinganoperatingsystemcontrollednetworkports).
Useanyofthefollowingmethods:
•RunDSAPortabletoviewthediagnosticeventlog
(requiresIPMIdriver)orcreateanoutputfilethatyou
cansendtoLenovoserviceandsupport(usingftpor
localcopy).
•UseIPMItooltoviewthesystem-eventlog(requires
IPMIdriver).
•UsethewebbrowserinterfacetotheIMMtoviewthe
system-eventloglocally(requiresRNDISUSBLAN
driver).
Theserverisnothungandisnotconnectedtoanetwork
(usinganoperatingsystemcontrollednetworkports).
•RunDSAPortabletoviewthediagnosticeventlog
(requiresIPMIdriver)orcreateanoutputfilethatyou
cansendtoLenovoserviceandsupport(usingftpor
localcopy).
•UseIPMItooltoviewthesystem-eventlog(requires
IPMIdriver).
•UsethewebbrowserinterfacetotheIMMtoviewthe
system-eventloglocally(requiresRNDISUSBLAN
driver).
Theserverisnothungandtheintegratedmanagement
moduleII(IMM2)isconnectedtoanetwork.
Inawebbrowser,typetheIPaddressfortheIMM2and
gototheEventLogpage.Formoreinformation,see
“ObtainingtheIMMhostname”onpage55
and“Logging
ontothewebinterface”onpage56
.
Theserverishung,andnocommunicationcanbemade
withtheIMM.
•IfDSAPrebootisinstalled,restarttheserverandpress
F2tostartDSAPrebootandviewtheeventlogs(see
“RunningtheDSAPrebootdiagnosticprograms”on
page79
formoreinformation).
•Alternatively,youcanrestarttheserverandpressF1to
starttheSetuputilityandviewthePOSTeventlogor
system-eventlog.Formoreinformation,see“Viewing
eventlogsthroughtheSetuputility”onpage76.
Clearingtheeventlogs
Usethisinformationtocleartheeventlogs.
Tocleartheeventlogs,completethefollowingsteps.
Note:ThePOSTerrorlogisautomaticallyclearedeachtimetheserverisrestarted.
Step1.Turnontheserver.
Step2.Whentheprompt<F1>Setupisdisplayed,pressF1.Ifyouhavesetbothapower-onpasswordand
anadministratorpassword,youmusttypetheadministratorpasswordtoviewtheeventlogs.
Step3.TocleartheIMMsystem-eventlog,selectSystemEventLogs➙ClearSystemEventLog,
then,pressEntertwice.
POST
Whenyouturnontheserver,itperformsaseriesofteststochecktheoperationoftheservercomponents
andsomeoptionaldevicesintheserver.Thisseriesoftestsiscalledthepower-onself-test,orPOST.
Note:Thisserverdoesnotusebeepcodesforserverstatus.
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