IBM Server 8658 Advanced System Management Firmware Update Diskette Readme.txt Version 1.18 CONTENTS ________ 1.0 Overview 2.0 Change History 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions 4.0 Configuration Information 5.0 Unattended Mode 6.0 Web Sites and support phone Number 7.0 Trademarks and Notices 8.0 Disclaimer 1.0 Overview ________________________ This diskette will update the IBM Advanced System Management software only. It will not affect any device drivers. The utility on this diskette can also be used to configure settings on your IBM Netfinity Advanced System management PCI Adapter. 1.1 To use this diskette, perform the following steps: a). Insert this diskette into the diskette drive and restart the system. If your system does not boot from the diskette, use POST/BIOS setup to configure the diskette drive as a boot device. Please refer to the Server Library that was included with your system for additional information. b). After your system boots, the main option menu will appear on the screen. The main option menu contains four options. Use the up-and-down arrow keys to highlight the option you want to perform. Online help is available for each option by pressing F1 while the option is highlighted. General help is available by pressing F1 from one of the help windows. To select an option, highlight it and press 'Enter'. See section 4.0 - Configuration Information - below for more information. c). When you are finished using the utility, select "Exit" utility from the main menu and press Enter. d). When prompted, remove the diskette from the diskette drive and press Enter to restart your system. 1.2 Limitations - If there is an error in loading the IBM Advanced System Management software, retry loading the software by repeating the instructions in section 1.1. If you are installing the IBM Netfinity Advanced System Management PCI Adapter in a hot-plug PCI slot, please make sure the Adapter card is powered with an IBM Power Unit Adapter. This will ensure proper operation. Please refer to the Installations Publication for connection the IBM Power Unit Adapter. 1.3 Enhancements 1.4. Level of Recommendations and Prerequisites for the update: - A full tape backup should be completed and verified prior to running this, or any other system upgrade. - RAID configuration should be saved to a diskette: see the "Hardware Maintenance Manual" for more details. 1.5 Dependencies: - none 2.0 Change History Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.18 - Added new system health commands in support of IBM Director - Fixed problem setting the loader watchdog value using the configuration utility. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.17 - Changed display of CPU speed to 4 characters for CPUs over 999 MHz. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.16 - Fixed UART initialization problem in self-test. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.15 - Fixed problem powering on after AC is removed. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.14 - Added support for the "NON" and "OVER" LEDs - Removed erroneous 5.A menu item from the user menu. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.13 - Added thermal monitoring support for additional processor speeds. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.12 - Fixed problem displaying the system name on the user interface menu. - Added a dialout alert when the power subsystem becomes non-redundant. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.11 - Fixed problem updating the Advanced System Management software using the System Management serial port at baud rates other than 57600. - Added monitoring of the CPU thermal trip signal. - Discontinued sending a power down alert and making a system event log entry when the system is rebooted with an OS shutdown. - Added unique system identification support for Netfinity Director - Added temperature monitoring support for additional CPU speeds. Advanced System Management Installation Utility Version 1.10 - Original Release 3.0 Installing and Setup Instructions ______________________________________ This diskette includes a configuration utility that enables you to configure your Advanced System Management (ASM) hardware without using Netfinity Manager and the Advanced System Management Service. With the configuration utility, you can: * Configure 'Alert Setting' to enable or disable alert functions. * Configure 'Dial In/Out' settings. * Configure 'General Settings', including the Name and Number that identify this Advanced System Management hardware, the date and time reported by the ASM hardware, assorted time-out values, and schedule a time for the system to be powered up. * Configure Modem Settings. Information on all values that can be set using this utility can be found in the "Advanced System Management" section of your Server library. To install the firmware on this diskette, perform the following steps: 3.1 Make sure your system is powered down. 3.2 Insert the diskette in the diskette drive. 3.3 Power on your system to boot from diskette drive. If your system does not boot from the diskette, use POST/BIOS setup utility to configure the diskette drive as a boot device. 3.4 From the main option menu, select "Update System Management Firmware". 3.5 Follow the on screen instructions to complete the update. 4.0 Configuration Information ____________________________________ 4.1 After your system boots, the main option menu will appear thus: * Hardware Status and Information * Configuration Settings * Update System Management firmware * Exit Use the up-and-down arrow keys to highlight the options. Online help is available for each option by pressing F1 while the option is highlighted. General Help is available be pressing F1 from one of the Help windows. To select an option, highlight it and then press 'Enter'. 4.2 Configuration Settings. ______________________________ Select 'Configuration Settings' to view or change the configuration setting of your Advanced System Management hardware. The options that appear after you select 'Configuration Settings' allow you to configure Alert Settings, Dial In/Dial Out Settings, General Settings, and Modem Settings. See "Configuration Interface Descriptions" below, for more information. 4.3 Hardware status Information. ______________________________ Select 'Hardware Status and Information" for information on the current state of your Advanced System Management hardware. When you have finished viewing this information, press 'Esc' to return to the main option menu. Use the up-and-down arrow keys to highlight the options and press 'Enter' to select an option. 4.4 Configuration Interface Descriptions _________________________________________ A total of four ASM configuration interfaces are available: - Alert Settings - Dial In/Out Settings - General Settings - Modem Settings Use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the options and press Enter to select an option. A description of the contents of each of the Advanced System Management Utility configuration interfaces follows. 4.5 Alert Settings ___________________ Use this interface to enable or disable all Critical, Non-Critical, and System alerts supported by your ASM hardware. For a description of each of these alerts and the effect enabling them has, please see "Remote Alert Settings" in the "Advanced System Management" section of your server library. Use the arrow keys and the Tab key to move between the fields. Use the left and right arrow keys to enable or disable each of the alerts. For online help, press F1. When you have finished, press F6 to save and return to the main option menu. To return to the main option menu without saving, press Esc. 4.6 Dial In/Out Settings _________________________ This window is divided into two sections: Dial In (used to configure dial in settings) and Dial Out (used to configure dial out settings). To use the Dial In portion of this window, use the Tab key or the arrow keys to move the cursor to User Profile to Configure. Then use the left and right arrow keys to select a User Profile. Once you have selected a User Profile, you can set the following values: Login ID Password Dialback (enable or disable) Number (used for dialback only) Read Only Access (enable or disable) Dial In (enable or disable) Dial In Delay (minutes) For a description of each of these values, please see "The Dial In Settings Group" and "The Dialing Settings Group" in the "Advanced System Management" section of your server library. When you have finished, press F6 to save and return to the main option menu. To return to the main option menu without saving, press Esc. To use the Dial Out portion of this window, use the Tab key or the arrow keys to move the cursor to User Profile to Configure. Then use the left and right arrow keys to select a User Profile. Once you have selected a User Profile, you can set the following values: Login ID Password Enable or disable the currently selected entry Number PIN Connection Type (numeric, alphanumeric, serial) Description Dialout Retry Limit Dialout Number Spacing Dialout Retry Delay For a description of each of these values, please see "The Dial In Settings Group" and "The Dialing Settings Group" in the "Advanced System Management" section of your server library. When you have finished, press F6 to save and return to the main option menu. To return to the main option menu without saving, press Esc. 4.7 General Settings _____________________ Use the General Settings configuration window to set the identifying Name and Number for this Advanced System Management hardware; set the time and date of the ASM clock; schedule a time and date for the system to be automatically powered on; and to specify POST, Loader, and O/S Time out values or the Power Off Delay value. The Name and Number are for your use, and are to help you identify these systems on your network. The Name and Number values can be up to 15 characters in length. Use the arrow keys and the Tab key to move between the fields. For online help, press F1. When you have finished entering the values, press F6 to save the values and return to the main option menu. To return to the main option menu without saving, press Esc. 4.8 Modem Settings ___________________ Use the Modem Settings window to configure the modem that is used by your ASM hardware. For descriptions of each of the Modem Settings values, please see please see "Modem Settings" in the "Advanced System Management" section of your server library. ___________________________ 5.0 Unattended Mode ________________________ This update diskette does not support unattended installation. 6.0 WEB Sites and Support Phone Number _________________________________________ 6.1 IBM Support Web Site: http://www.pc.ibm.com/support 6.2 IBM eserver xSeries Web Site: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/xseries 6.3 If you have any questions about this update, or problems applying the update, go to the following Help Center World Telephone Numbers and URL: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/YAST-3P2QYL.html. 7.0. TradeMarks and Notices ______________________________ 7.1 The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States, or other countries or both: * IBM * Netfinity * Netfinity Manager * Advanced System Management Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. 8.0. Disclaimer __________________ 8.1 THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. IBM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND MERCHANTABILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT. BY FURNISHING THIS DOCUMENT, IBM GRANTS NO LICENSES TO ANY PATENTS OR COPYRIGHTS. 8.2 Note to Government users: Note to U.S. Government users-- Documentation related to restricted rights-- Use, duplication and disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. Appendix A: Package Specific Installation Instruction This update is packaged as a self-extracting PackageForTheWeb (PFTW) executable file. To unpack, this update requires that your TEMP environment variable be set to a path with read/write access. You must be logged in as an administrator. The package update log, ux.log, is created on the system drive. To locate the log file go to: %SystemDrive%\uxlog\ux.log The command-line syntax for PackageForTheWeb firmware update package is: Package.exe [-s] [-a [-s] | [-r] | [-c] | [-x directory] | [-xd] | [-w] | [-?] ] [-s] This command installs the Package-For-The-Web software silently and does not prompt if files are to be over-written in the %temp% directory. [-a] This command passes all subsequent commands to the PFTW software to install the update package. [-s] This command runs a silent and unattended update. For firmware updates, the update is scheduled to run on the next reboot. An immediate reboot can be forced with the -r option. [-r] This command schedules the update and reboot immediately. It can be used with or without the -s command. [-c] This command cancels any scheduled firmware update and records results of this operation in the log file. Only one firmware package can be scheduled at a time, if a firmware update needs to be applied instead of the currently scheduled firmware update package, cancel the current (run with the -c option on any firmware package) package. Then, run the applicable firmware package. [-x directory] This command is used with firmware updates to extract the update to the directory named directory. The PackageForTheWeb executable extracts itself to a subdirectory in the %TEMP% directory, a relative directory will be relative to that location. You must specify an absolute directory if you do not want to use the default directory. [-xd] This command is used with firmware updates to extract to a floppy diskette. The floppy diskette can then be used to boot from and apply the update. This option is not available for all firmware updates, such as tape drive and hard-disk drive updates. [-w] PowerQuest Virtual Boot Environment requires that there are 2 free sectors on the first track before it can schedule a firmware update. Use this option only if scheduling an update failed because 2 free sectors were not available on the first track. This option clears the non-boot and the non-partition information sectors on the first track. Typically, these sectors are not used. Before clearing the sectors a copy of the complete first track is saved in the %temp% directory from which the update runs. [-?] This command displays information about the command line switches. The command line switches -s, -r -c and -e are unnattended. Other command line options such as display help (-?) might require that you hit any key to continue. If Windows packages are run without any command line options, a GUI is displayed. This GUI offers all of the options that are available using the command line.