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How the OnBoard Manages Communications With Devices
350 AlterPath OnBoard Administrator’s Guide
RSA II
The RSA II card uses a text-based interface. The card can be used in multiple
IBM server platforms, and it requires a different firmware version or each
platform. Simple features, such as switching power on and off, may not
function if a card does not have the correct firmware version for the server in
which it resides. In the discussion below, firmware for RSA II type service
processors is referred to using the convention: version/platform. For example,
firmware version1.03/x205, for example, is version 1.03 for the x205
platform. The versions differ between platforms, so that a later version of
firmware for one platform may not have as many RSA II features as an earlier
version for another platform. A comparison of some firmware versions for
various platforms follows, for example:
• 1.07/x235 was released before 1.03/x306.
• 1.03/x360 is very different from 1.03/x205.
• 1.03/x205 supports neither event log nor sensors from the command line,
whereas 1.03/x306 and 1.07/x235 both support event logs and sensors
from the command line.
• “power on” switches on the power for 1.03/x306 and 1.07/x235, but
1.03/x205 uses “power -on”.
• Unknown sensor data on the 1.07/x235 is shown by using asterixes, while
on the 1.03/x306 unknown sensor data is indicated by blank spaces.
Two RSA templates are available: rsa.default
and
rsa.limited.default. The rsa.limited.default template is for
RSA II type devices that support only power commands through the device’s
command line interface.
A custom Expect script can be created to provide support for RSA II service
processors that do not work with the default rsa command templates.See the
RSA_II.txt file in the application notes IBM subdirectory.
Table A-2: Device Type Differences (Continued)
Protocol Device Type Differences