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Contents
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1.Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What is included with the appliance server . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2.Installing and cabling the
appliance server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Setting up the hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Input/Output (I/O) connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Connecting the server to the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Using the C2T device breakout cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Cable management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Setting the initial Internet protocol (IP) address. . . . . . . 6
Setting the initial IP address using Appliance System
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Setting the initial IP address in a command line . . . . 7
Setting the initial IP address using the IBM Advanced
Appliance Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Setting the initial IP address using a diskette . . . . . . 8
Changing default passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3.Starting the server . . . . . . . . . . 11
Server controls and indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Rear view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 4.Appliance configuration
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Accessing Appliance System Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Putting the initial Web page on the appliance . . . . . 16
SSL certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility . . . . 16
The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility agent
17
The Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility
console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Discovering IBM xSeries appliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using families and groups in the tree view . . . . . . . 19
Creating a family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Removing Appliances from families . . . . . . . . . . 21
Using the Adopt by First Matching Family function
22
Chapter 5.Using the Recovery and
Supplementary CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Using the recovery enablement diskette and Recovery CD
23
Using the Supplementary CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Chapter 6.Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
POST beep code descriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
POST error messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Troubleshooting chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Appendix A. Product warranties and
notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Warranty Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
IBM Statement of Limited Warranty for United States,
Puerto Rico, and Canada (Part 1 - General Terms) . 31
IBM Statement of Warranty Worldwide except
Canada, Puerto Rico, Turkey, United States (Part 1 –
General Terms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Part 2 - Worldwide Country-Unique Terms . . . . . . . 36
License Agreement for Warranted Programs . . . . . . . . 40
International License Agreement for Non-Warranted
Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Part 1 — General Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Transfer of Rights and Obligations. . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Part 2 - Country-unique Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Notices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Edition notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Processing date data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Important notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Electronic emission notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Industry Canada Class A emission compliance
statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Australia and New Zealand Class A statement. . . . 48
United Kingdom telecommunications safety
requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
European Union EMC Directive conformance
statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Taiwan electrical emission statement . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Japanese Voluntary Control Council for Interference
(VCCI) statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Power cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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