Users Guide

Use Case Scenarios

This section helps you in navigating to specic sections in the guide to perform typical use case scenarios.

Topics:

• Chassis Basic Conguration and Firmware Update

• Backup the CMC Congurations and Server Congurations.

• Update Firmware for Management Consoles Without Servers Downtime

• Extended Power Performance Scenarios - Using Web Interface

• Extended Power Performance Scenarios - Using RACADM

Chassis Basic Conguration and Firmware Update

This scenario guides you to perform the following tasks:

• Bring up the chassis with basic congurations.

• Verify that hardware is being detected by CMC without any errors.

• Update rmware for CMC, IOMs, and server components.

1 CMC is pre-installed on your chassis and hence no installation is required. You can install a second CMC to run as a standby to the

active CMC.

For information on installing a second CMC, see the Understanding Redundant CMC Environment section.

2 Set up the chassis using the steps provided in the Checklist To Set up Chassis.

3 Congure CMC management IP address and the initial CMC network using the LCD panel or the Dell CMC serial console.

For information, see the Conguring Initial CMC Network section.

4 Congure the logs and alerts to produce logs and set alerts for certain events that occur on the Managed system.

For information see, Conguring CMC to Send Alerts section.

5 Congure the IP address and network settings for servers using the CMC Web interface.

For information, see the Conguring Server.

6 Congure the IP address and network settings for IOMs using the Web interface.

For more information, see the Conguring Network Settings for IOM(s) section.

7 Power on the servers.

8 Check the hardware logs, CMC logs, and email or SNMP trap alerts for invalid hardware congurations.

For more information, see the Viewing Event Logs section.

9 To diagnose issues related to hardware, access the Diagnostic Console.

For more information on using the Diagnostic Console, see the Using Diagnostic Console section.

10 For information on errors in hardware conguration issues, see the Dell Event Message Reference Guide or the Server Administrator

Messages Reference Guide located at dell.com/support/manuals.

11 Update the rmware for CMC, IOMs, and server components.

For information, see the Updating Firmware section.

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