Product guide

78 Configuration Software and Utilities
79MAXDATA PLATINUM 90004R Server System
Running from the System Partition
If the SMU has been installed on a system partition, it can be run from there. To do this, follow the
steps below:
1. If an EFI shell prompt is available on the local console and the les on the system partition can
be accessed, skip to step 3.
2. Reset the server and boot to the EFI shell.
3. Locate the lesystem (e.g., fs0:, fs1:) that contains the service partition software and change
directory to \e\service\smu.
4. Run the smu.e application.
Shutdown of the SMU Application
Both the local and remote SMU applications can be exited by clicking on the Exit item in the task
pane or by clicking the Close button in the upper right hand corner of the container. A user can also
use the Close choice in the system menu of either container. An exit operation can be started at any
time (unless the application is blocked waiting for a response from the server). During exit from the
SMU application, the following steps occur:
1. The application sends a message to the SMU core components requesting to end the SMU
session.
2. The SMU core components send a message back to the application asking for user
conrmation of the request to exit. This message is displayed as a dialog box with an “OK”
button and a “Cancel” button.
3. Clicking the “OK” button causes the SMU application to send another message to the server
indicating you want to exit.
4. One last message is sent back to the application from the server before the application shuts
down. In the local case, when the SMU application exits, it exits to the EFI shell so an EFI shell
prompt is displayed. In the remote case, when the remote SMU application is exited, control is
returned to the Service Partition Utilities application (refer to Figure 33).
5. If the “Cancel” button is clicked, you are able to continue the current SMU session.
Server Management Conguration Task
The server management conguration task, if supported on the server the SMU application is
connected to, appears in the task pane. This task allows you to congure server management settings
maintained by the server management controller of the server, usually the Baseboard Management
Controller. To support this task, the target server must support version 1.5 of the Intelligent Platform
Management Interface (IPMI 1.5).
The server management conguration task supports conguration of the following (listed as subtasks
in the task pane):
• Users
• LAN Channel
• Serial/Modem Channel
• Platform Event Filtering (PEF)
• Power Settings
Upon selecting one of the above subtasks in the task pane, a view is displayed containing some or
all of the conguration items that pertain to the selected subtask. The data that is initially displayed
in this view is read from the server management controller of the server. You can then update the
settings and save them back to the server.