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Chapter 5. System management 81
5.1.2 Discovery of POWER processor-based blades
A POWER processor-based blade can be managed in very much the same way
that a rack-mount Power System is managed from a SDMC, that is, it is managed
directly through the service processor (FSP).
By default, the service processor is not available on the network. You must
explicitly go into the Advanced Management Module (AMM) and enable this
configuration. Make sure you have the latest AMM firmware and blade firmware
and select Blade Tasks  Configuration  Management Network
Configuration. Enable the FSP on your network.
At this point, you want to remove the blade altogether from SDMC. You are
currently managing it through IVM, but you should change that configuration by
removing the VIOS OS object, all the Virtual Server objects, and the server
object. Remove all objects associated with the blade and chassis from the
SDMC. Then,
discover the FSP directly and request access to it (you need to
supply a password here and set the Admin and General passwords. Note that
performing this task disables the IVM interface.
To discover a blade server, perform the following steps:
1. Open the System Discovery page.
2. Supply the IP address or the host name of the blade server and choose the
resource type as Server. The discovery process should discover the blade
server as a Server.
3. Request access to the blade server with the correct credentials.
The blade server is now connected to the SDMC and is listed in the Resources
tab of the Welcome page. The model type and serial number of the Server
indicates that it is a blade server. You can perform all management tasks on the
blade server of which it is capable.
Discovery through the Advanced Management Module
Advanced Management Module (AMM) is a management console that provides
system management functions and keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) switching for
all the blade servers in a BladeCenter® chassis that support KVM. SDMC can
also manage the blade servers that are connected to an AMM.
You have to discover the AMM on the System Discovery page and request
access to the AMM using the credentials for AMM. The blade servers that are
managed by the AMM are now listed as servers in the Navigate Resources page.
These managed systems are not listed in the Resources tab of the Welcome
page. The SDMC management tasks are not available on these managed
systems.