Intel SE72xx, User Manual

Page 1: ...r Server Configuration Wizard SCW Utility For Intel Server Boards and Platforms based on the SE72xx SE7320 SE75xx and SE8500 Chipsets Revision 1 1 for Server Configuration Wizard through v 2 1 6 Part Number D17937 002 ...

Page 2: ...and or use of Intel products including liability or warranties relating to fitness for a particular purpose merchantability or infringement of any patent copyright or other intellectual property right Intel products are not intended for use in medical life saving or life sustaining applications Intel may make changes to specifications and product descriptions at any time without notice Designers m...

Page 3: ...er 8 Server Probing 8 Start Screen 9 Initial Options 9 6 SCW Screens 10 Intel Server Management ISM Question 10 Unattended Configuration and Cloning Restore Option 10 7 Selecting Options to Configure Main Page 11 Configure FRU SDRs 11 BIOS Date and Time 12 Setting a System Asset Tag 12 Channel Configuration LANs and Serial Modem 13 LAN Channel Screens 14 LAN Channel Screen 1 Addresses 14 LAN Chann...

Page 4: ...30 To enable USB devices in the BIOS for DOS 30 Figures 1 Screen Layout Syntax 7 2 Start Screen 9 3 First Choices 9 4 ISM or SCW 10 5 Unattended Configuration Clone Install 10 6 Typical SDR Question 11 7 Date and Time 12 8 System Asset Tag 12 9 Channels to Configure 13 10 LAN Screen 1 IP Configuration 14 11 Address Resolution 15 12 LAN Screen 2 OOB SOL 16 13 LAN Screen 3 Alerts 17 14 LAN Alert Fil...

Page 5: ...System Asset Tag LAN Serial and Advanced LAN Channels OOB Out of band management settings for Server Management without using the OS Intel Management Module IMM Advanced Features User configurations for Advanced Features BIOS System date and time Beyond date time SCW neither installs nor updates the BMC or BIOS Help and error messages are provided throughout the process Technical Details SCW suppo...

Page 6: ...ng Intel Server Manager with Agents Full Minimal None F Not installing Intel Server Manager Table 1 Hardware Configurations and Suggested Installation A IMM Adv Ed B IMM Prof Ed C ISM Full Ag D SM Minim E ISM No Agt mBMC ISM No BMC BMC no ISM8x Answer ISM No Yes No No No No No No FRU SDRs Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Date Time Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Asset Tag Optional Optional Optional ...

Page 7: ...creen Layout Syntax Feature Description Title Bar Gives Version of SCW Screen Title an ption Area left half of screen Explains purpo en and provides gen d Descri se of the particular scre eral instructions Data Entry Area Shows the configu r that section s setting right half of screen ration data required fo Common Buttons Back Returns to pr preserved evious screen choices Exit Quits the program a...

Page 8: ...This RAMdrive will be used as a temporary storage area for the different components of the utility Information on the RAMdrive is lost on power off or reboot Server Probing SCW will probe the server and store the component information to data files Probed areas include the Baseboard Chassis FRU Field Replaceable Unit devices SDRs Sensor Data Records BIOS and Firmware versions Channels Configured U...

Page 9: ...al Options Choose Server Configuration Wizard to configure Channels Users and Advanced Settings Choose Create Diskettes to place device drivers on removable media Choose Server Configuration Utilities to view which DOS Utilities can be run separately for this platform See Section 9 Figure 3 First Choices 9 ...

Page 10: ... See explanations of components starting at Section 7 The options to configure Users and Channels will NOT appear Choose yes for Servers with an Intel Management Module Professional Edition installed No Allows SCW to setup all the components Shows Users and Channels Choose No for Servers where ISM will not be installed Servers where ISM will be installed using the No Agents option Servers with an ...

Page 11: ...Channels Advanced Features Options to set up IMM Advanced Edition features Telnet SNMP Web Server E Mail and ARSC KVM Options may not always appear in the order that is listed here Configure FRU SDRs Intel Servers come with FRU SDRs pre loaded but newer files may be available from the Intel support website Check under the specific platform at http support intel com support motherboards server SCW ...

Page 12: ... System Asset Tag Figure 8 System Asset Tag Acts as serial number or ID for the server The Continue button will be disabled until a System Asset Tag has been entered If you do not wish to set a Tag Number do not choose this option in the Main Select Options screen Format is from 2 to the maximum number allowed by the specific platform s FRU Area of text or numeric characters 12 ...

Page 13: ...annel 1 d NIC1 On servers is not configu through the OS On S The onboar NIC with dual ports onboard the second red by SCW This NIC can be used either OOB or E7520VP2 NIC2 is used Channel 4 For a modem attached to the Serial port Channel 3 able only for the Adva Telnet P SNM GCM Advanced Module NIC Avail Web SMT nced Module GCM NIC providing P and ARSC support Available only through the 13 ...

Page 14: ... GCM NIC should have a static IP If DHCP is chosen all other entries will be filled in automatically If Static is chosen the option to Continue will not be available until all required entries are completed 2 Only required if Static is chosen Enter the server s IP address and subnet mask and gateway If less than three digits are required for a subsection of the address either use the mouse or the ...

Page 15: ...will use an entered MAC address or attempt to find the IP address for the Alert Destination system if the checkbox is checked Automatic resolution will fail if Network cable is not connected at both ends IP address configuration is invalid Incorrect network configuration After resolving a failure press the Resolve MAC Address button again or enter the MAC address of the destination system in 6 dot...

Page 16: ...OL Access Mode The Privilege Level Limit sets the lowest sign in level that will be allowed access Choosing Administrator provides the most security Choices are User Only able to use read commands Sometimes listed as the option Always Operator All BMC commands are allowed except for any configuration change of the OOB interface that would block access such as disabling channels Administrator All B...

Page 17: ...e text Resolve Gateway or Fill in the Destination MAC number SNMP Community String Required field in the SNMP traps header If not set will default to public Can be 5 18 characters in length LAN Alert Filters button will bring up the next screen see next section The bottom 3 check boxes provide the option to replace LAN alerts with email alerts on systems with the Intel Management Module Advanced E...

Page 18: ...ion the available filters for LAN alerts or email alerts with the Advanced module are listed Each item is an event that if checked will trigger an alert if that feature crosses the upper or lower threshold Choose on an individual basis or choose none or all The Select All and Clear All buttons are provided for convenience Figure 14 LAN Alert Filters 18 ...

Page 19: ...a specific to paging if paging is desired for alerting from this server Serial Modem Screen 1 Modem Setup Figure 15 Serial 1 Modem Configuration Accept defaults or provide the required modem strings ESC Sequence Max 5 characters first string sent to clarify modem communication Hang up String Terminates session Max 7 characters with an automatic Enter added by the BMC Modem Init String Initializes ...

Page 20: ...ess Mode and Restricted Mode instead of PrivLevel Access Mode options are Preboot only Always Disabled Where Preboot sets to on at power down or hard reset Restricted Mode options are Enabled Disabled Where enabled means one cannot disable the system Connection Mode Provides 2 choices Direct connected via a null modem cable to another system Modem Mode connected to an external modem to connect to ...

Page 21: ...Device can be a pager cell phone modem of managing system Paging String Characters sent after connect This is concatenated with the Alert Destination Phone Number so do not add twice Blackout Period Time in minutes between successive alerts Numeric value between 0 and 255 0 will disable the black period Alert Paging Filters Launches the next screen to configure the alerts 21 ...

Page 22: ...be used on the Serial Channel Each item lists a filter that if checked will send an alert if either threshold is crossed Choose from none to all on an individual basis The Select All and Clear All buttons are provided for convenience Figure 18 Serial Alert Filters Configuring Channel 3 GCM NIC Advanced LAN see instructions for LAN Channel 1 22 ...

Page 23: ...rm Click to place a checkmark in the box on each of the Users you wish to setup Figure 19 User Selection Choices are which of the 4 Users to configure Choosing multiple Users or Select All will run through the User screens for each User Clear All will clear previous selection Set up is per user per channel for OOB access 23 ...

Page 24: ...rd for each user LAN Channel 1 Privilege Level Limit see Access explanation under Figure 12 Serial Channel 4 Privilege Level Limit see Access explanation under Figure 12 If IMM Advanced Edition is installed these additional options will be available Adv LAN Channel 3 Privilege Level Limit see Access explanation under Figure 12 Enable HTTP for this User Must be checked to allow access to the Web Se...

Page 25: ...e or a script Commands use the CLI syntax not IPMI syntax IPMI sessions require password and close on logout Web Server HTTP and HTTPS access to the BMC s web server SMTP Alerts e mail Provides alerts from the BMC even when the OS is not running Advanced Screen 1 SNMP KVM and Telnet Configuration Figure 21 Advanced Screen 1 Telnet KVM SNMP Enable SNMP v1 v2 and v3 are supported SNMP Port Default p...

Page 26: ...65535 Advanced Features Screen 3 SMTP Alert Settings SMTP Alerts may be sent via SMTP email as well as through the standard IPMI alerting methods These email alerts from the BMC can be sent even when the OS is not running Figure 23 Advanced Screen 3 Alert Contents Sender Machine Name Local machine name that will appear in the alert e mail message From Address The e mail address that will show in t...

Page 27: ...nnot be made and the configuration utilities will set up the server The server will then be rebooted 9 Server Configuration Utilities There are multiple underlying utilities that SCW uses to perform the actual configuration or that are available in the DOS partition Most are platform dependent as is the list of which will be shown in SCW The DOS partition utilities include SYSCFG shown as Run Syst...

Page 28: ...to the server and a reboot should occur 11 Creating Diskettes SCW provides the option to place the OS level Device Drivers on removable media Choose drivers by OS or drivers per device Multiple selections may be made at one time on the drivers or OS screens and available choices vary by platform Figure 26 Disk Set Selection Continue will switch to DOS to place the drivers onto the media If multipl...

Page 29: ...e GUI Graphic User Interface HSBP HSC Hot Swap Back Plane or Hot Swap Controller HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol HTTPS HTTP with SSL encryption IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface IMM Intel Management Module Professional and Advanced Edition Modules ISM Intel Server Manager KVM ARSC Keyboard Video Mouse redirection LAN Local Area Network NIC Network Interface Controller LAN connection...

Page 30: ...he CD that was booted from not writeable drive D is the stateless RAM disk created by the boot so hard drive letters would start at E 4 To make the drive bootable use format e s to transfer the system files to the new drive A bootable removable media device is NOT required for running SCW 2 Making a USB device viewable from DOS Intel Servers based on the chipsets listed in this Appendix have a BIO...