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For more information on how to configure and use the ServeRAID Manager and
its components, please refer to:
• Online Help
• The ServeRAID installation and user’s guide, shipped with the adapter or
available from http://www.pc.ibm.com/support
6.2 Advanced System Management controllers
As part of an ongoing effort to make the Netfinity servers the most manageable
Intel-based servers in the marketplace, IBM designed the Advanced System
Management processors and adapters. It is like a server within a server, offering
you local and remote monitoring, and alerting and management capabilities, even
when the server is powered off.
The Advanced System Management product family consists of the following
products:
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Advanced
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System Management PCI Adapter
System Management Processor
Systems Management Adapter (not supported on Windows 2000)
System Management Interconnect Cable Kit
System Management Token-Ring Option
Refer to 2.6, “Advanced System Management” on page 41 for information about
these hardware components and where they are supported.
Note: As the Advanced Systems Management Adapter is not supported by
Windows 2000, it will not be covered in this redbook.
6.2.1 Advanced System Management driver installation and update
The Windows 2000 installation CD does not contain any drivers for either the
ASM processor or adapter. However, if you installed Windows 2000 from
ServerGuide, the driver will be installed automatically. (You should still consider
updating the installed driver using this procedure.)
The following procedure should be used for installing or updating the ASM device
driver. What you see during the procedure depends on the ASM hardware you
have installed, so we have divided the steps into three configurations:
• Netfinity server with only the built-in ASM processor
• Netfinity server with only an ASM PCI Adapter
• Netfinity server with both the built-in ASM processor and ASM PCI Adapter
Important
Our testing indicates that it is very important to have the latest server BIOS
versions installed on the Netfinity 5000 and 5500 family of servers. Otherwise,
the Windows 2000 setup program will not be able to detect the ASM processor.
If you don’t see the devices described below in the device manager, you should
probably upgrade your server’s BIOS. For the latest level check the Web at:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/support
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