IBM JS20 - BladeCenter - 8842 Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

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Contents

Service aids and the Linux system error log . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40FRU/CRU isolation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Error symptom charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Light path diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Memory errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Recovering the system firmware code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Recovery of system firmware code using service aids . . . . . . . . . 48Starting the TEMP image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Recovering the TEMP image from the PERM image . . . . . . . . . . 49Updating the blade server firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Determination of current server firmware levels . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Updating the blade server service processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Update and manage system flash using Linux service aids . . . . . . . . 51Updating the system flash using Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Verifying the system firmware levels using Linux . . . . . . . . . . 52Update and manage system flash using AIX diagnostics . . . . . . . . . 52Updating the system flash using AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Committing the temporary firmware image using AIX . . . . . . . . . 53Verifying the system firmware levels using AIX . . . . . . . . . . . 53Recovering the system firmware code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Recovery of system firmware code using service aids . . . . . . . . . 55Starting the backup image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Recovering the primary image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Chapter 8. General AIX and xSeries standalone diagnostic information 59Information for general diagnostic systems running the AIX operating system 59AIX operating system message files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59CE login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Missing resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Automatic diagnostic tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Configuration program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Error log analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Introducing tasks and service aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Task and service aid functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62AIX automatic error log analysis (diagela) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Error log analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Log repair action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Tasks (service aids) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Download microcode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Update and manage system flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Using the standalone CD-ROM and online current diagnostics . . . . . . 67Standalone and online diagnostics operating considerations . . . . . . . 67Running online diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Running the online diagnostics in concurrent mode . . . . . . . . . . 68Running standalone diagnostics from a management (NIM) server . . . . . . 68NIM server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Client configuration and booting ERserver standalone diagnostics from theNIM server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Chapter 9. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Removing the blade server from the BladeCenter unit . . . . . . . . . . 73Opening the blade server cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74vi BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842: Hardware Maintenance Manual and Troubleshooting Guide