Users Guide

16 Contents
Disabling the Windows Automatic
Reboot Option
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Disabling the Automatic Reboot Option in
Windows 2008 Server
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Disabling the Automatic Reboot Option in
Windows Server 2003. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Configuring Platform Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Configuring Platform Event Filters (PEF)
. . . . . 315
Configuring PET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Configuring E-Mail Alerts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Testing E-mail Alerting
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Testing the RAC SNMP Trap Alert Feature . . . . 320
Frequently Asked Question about SNMP
Authentication
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
19 Recovering and Troubleshooting
the Managed System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
First Steps to Troubleshoot a Remote System . . . . . 323
Managing Power on a Remote System
. . . . . . . . 324
Selecting Power Control Actions from the
iDRAC6 Web-Based Interface
. . . . . . . . . . 324
Selecting Power Control Actions from the
iDRAC6 CLI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Viewing System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Main System Chassis
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Remote Access Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
System Inventory
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Using the System Event Log (SEL)
. . . . . . . . . . . 330
Using the Command Line to View
System Log
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331