Owner's Manual

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Note: If you do not update the standby CMC firmware to 1.10 or later
and a failover occurs FlexAddress feature will not be configured and
the user will need to reactive the feature.
* FlexAddress: Wake-On-LAN (WOL) requires BIOS to initialize MAC
values. When the FlexAddress feature is deployed for the first
time on a given blade, it requires at least one power-up and down
sequence for FlexAddress to take effect. The reason for this is
the FlexAddress on Ethernet devices is programmed by the BIOS. In
order for the BIOS to program the address it would need to be
functioning, this in turn requires blade to be powered up. Once
the power-up and power-down sequence has been completed, FlexAddress
would be available for Wake-On-LAN (WOL) function. Users may perform
power-up and power-down sequence on the blade for fully deploying
FlexAddress via iDRAC or CMC interface.
* When changing from a Server-Assigned MAC to Chassis-Assigned MAC on
Linux Based operating systems, additional configuration steps may be
required.
o SLES 9 and SLES 10: Users may need to run YAST (Yet another Setup
Tool) on their Linux system to configure their Network devices
and then restart the network services.
o RHEL 4 and RHEL 5: Users will need to run Kudzu, a utility to
detect and configure new/changed hardware on the system. Kudzu
will present the user with The Hardware Discovery Menu, it will
detect the MAC address change as Hardware was removed and new
Hardware added.
* Prior to installing FlexAddress, the user can determine the range
of MAC addresses contained on their Flexaddress feature card by
inserting the SD card into an USB “Memory Card Reader” and viewing
the file "pwwn_mac.xml". The clear text XML file on the SD card
will contain an XML tag "mac_start" which is the first starting
hex MAC address that will be used for this unique MAC address range.
The “mac_count” tag is the total number of MAC addresses that this
SD card allocates. The total MAC range allocated can be determined
by: "mac_start" + 0xCF (208 – 1) = mac_end.
Example:(starting_mac)00188BFFDCFA + 0xCF =(ending_mac)00188BFFDDC9
NOTE: You should lock the SD card prior to inserting in the USB
“Memory Card Reader” to prevent accidently modifying any of the
contents. You MUST UNLOCK the SD card before inserting into the CMC.
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KNOWN ISSUES FOR BROWSERS
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* In Internet Explorer Version 6, the log data may not display,
leaving only the message, "Loading Chassis Event Log..." shown .
To address this, go to Advanced Settings/Security and make sure the
option, "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer" is
NOT checked.
* In Internet Explorer Version 6, if the security setting is set to
restricted, the CMC User Interface on the Alert Management pages for