IBM System x3250 M3 Type 4251 Installation And User Manual

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might be configured to watch for the operating system watchdog timer and rebootthe system after a timeout, if the ASR feature is enabled. Otherwise, the IMMallows the administrator to generate a nonmaskable interrupt (NMI) by pressingan NMI button on the system board for an operating-system memory dump. ASRis supported by IPMI.v Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Specification V2.0 andIntelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) support.v Invalid system configuration (CNFG) LED support.v Serial port redirection over Telnet or SSH.v Serial over LAN (SOL).v Active Energy Manager (AEM).v Query power-supply input power.v PECI 2 support.v Power/reset control (power-on, hard and soft shutdown, hard and soft reset,schedule power control).v Alerts (in-band and out-of-band alerting, PET traps - IPMI style, SNMP, e-mail).v Operating-system failure blue screen capture.v Command-line interface.v Configuration save and restore.v PCI configuration data.v Boot sequence manipulation.The IMM also provides the following remote server management capabilitiesthrough the OSA SMBridge management utility program:v Command-line interface (IPMI Shell)The command-line interface provides direct access to server managementfunctions through the IPMI 2.0 protocol. Use the command-line interface to issuecommands to control the server power, view system information, and identify theserver. You can also save one or more commands as a text file and run the fileas a script.v Serial over LANEstablish a Serial over LAN (SOL) connection to manage servers from a remotelocation. You can remotely view and change the UEFI settings, restart the server,identify the server, and perform other management functions. Any standard Telnetclient application can access the SOL connection.Using the embedded hypervisorThe VMware ESXi embedded hypervisor is available on server models that comewith an installed USB embedded hypervisor flash device. The USB flash deviceinstalls in the USB connector on the system board (see “Installing a USB embeddedhypervisor flash device” on page 53). Hypervisor is virtualization software thatenables multiple operating systems to run on a host system at the same time. TheUSB flash device is required to activate the hypervisor functions.To start using the embedded hypervisor functions, you must add the USB flashdevice to the boot order in the Setup utility.To add the USB flash device to the boot order, complete the following steps:1. Turn on the server.Chapter 3. Configuring the server 67