Users Guide

16 Contents
Testing E-mail Alerting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature
. . . . 298
Frequently Asked Question about
SNMP Authentication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
20 Recovering and Troubleshooting
the Managed System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System . . . . . 301
Managing Power on a Remote System
. . . . . . . . 301
Selecting Power Control Actions from
the iDRAC6 Web-Based Interface
. . . . . . . . 301
Selecting Power Control Actions
from the iDRAC6 CLI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Viewing System Information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Main System Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Remote Access Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Using the System Event Log (SEL)
. . . . . . . . . . . 306
Using the Command Line to
View System Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Using the POST Boot Logs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Viewing the Last System Crash Screen
. . . . . . . . 309
21 Recovering and Troubleshooting
the iDRAC6
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Using the RAC Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Using the Command Line
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Using the Diagnostics Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . 313