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Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.1 What's New

Chapter 2 Discovering, Managing, and Monitoring the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System

This chapter provides the procedures for discovering, managing, and monitoring the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System and any Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules installed in a Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

Discovering the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System And Any Installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules

N1 System Manager discovers Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the same manner as other servers. You can discover any installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules by specifying a range of addresses that include the SP IP addresses of Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules, or by the operating system installed on Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules.

N1 System Manager does not discover the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis through its SP or SC IP address. Sun Blade 8000 Chassis is discovered when you use N1 System Manager to discover Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules installed in the chassis.

For further information about discovery methods, see Chapter 4, Discovering Manageable Servers, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

Note –

The capability of N1 System Manager to manage a Sun Blade 8000 Chassis and any installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules depends on the discovery method. These capabilities are identical to the Sun FireTM X4000 server management capabilities described in Capability of Managed Servers Based on Discovery in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

If any installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules are discovered using SP-based discovery, the discovery process automatically places them into a special group called a chassis group, with a group name of the form cmm-chassisID, where chassisID is the hardware ID of the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis containing each discovered Sun Blade X8400 Server Module.

Chassis groups are displayed by N1 System Manager in the same way as user-defined groups of servers. For details about defining and managing groups of servers, see Chapter 5, Managing Servers and Server Groups, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide. The cmm- prefix of the chassis group name is reserved for Sun Blade 8000 Chassis, and enables you to quickly identify each chassis and the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules installed in the chassis. Additionally, the discovery process retrieves additional server information about each Sun Blade X8400 Server Module, including PXE boot devices, and UUID.

If the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules are discovered using OS-based discovery, the discovered Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules are not shown in the chassis server group context.

Discovery also provides the capability of placing discovered blades in an existing logical server group as described in the following procedure.

ProcedureTo Discover Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules

  1. Log in to the N1 System Manager browser interface.

    See Chapter 1, Accessing the N1 System Manager, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

  2. Select an existing logical server group, or create and then select a new logical server group.

    For group creation procedures, see To Create a Group of Managed Servers in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

  3. Use SP-based discovery, specifying the range of Sun Blade X8400 Server Module SP IP addresses.

    Use the discover command to discover a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module through its SP.


    N1-ok> discover IP,IP-IP,subnet/mask format ip [group group]
[ipmi username/password] 
[ssh username/password]

    IP addresses, IP address ranges, and IP subnets can be input as a comma-separated list. Overlapping IP address ranges are allowed.

    Note –

    When you specify the range of IP addresses for discovery, ensure that the IP address range does not include the IP addresses of the N1 System Manager management server.

    Security credentials for IPMI, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), SSH and Telnet are optional. If credentials are not specified, the manufacturer defaults are used. See Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Site Preparation Guide for information about the default accounts.

    See discover in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Command Line Reference Manual for more details about the syntax used in the discover command.

    After successful completion of the Discovery job, a managed server is identified by its management name. If the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module was discovered using SP-based discovery, its management name is initially set to its management IP address. You can rename discovered servers at any time, to a name of your choosing, by using the set server command as described in set server in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Command Line Reference Manual. When you name a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module using the set server command, the name does not change if you move the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module to another chassis.

    For more information, see SP-Based Discovery in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide

    After discovery, each discovered Sun Blade X8400 Server Module is placed into the selected logical server group and into a chassis server group. You can add discovered Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules to more than one logical server group, for various group level tasks, providing additional management functionality.

Detecting Duplicate Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules

Under certain conditions, N1 System Manager can discover the same server more than once, resulting in duplicate servers. See Discovering and Identifying Duplicate Servers in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide for details.

When manually discovering a Sun Blade 8000 Modular System server, if you do not specify the correct guid, the detectduplicates command does not work properly for that manually discovered Sun Blade 8000 Modular System. When manually discovering Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules, if specifying a guid in the manual discovery XML file, ensure therefore that you specify the correct guid.

Upgrading Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules ILOM Firmware

You can upgrade the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules ILOM firmware in the N1 System Manager environment.

The ILOM firmware version installed on the CMM must be the same as the ILOM firmware version installed on the service processors of the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules. Use N1 System Manager to upgrade the firmware on Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules. See Chapter 6, Managing Firmware SP, BIOS, and ALOM Updates, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Operating System Provisioning Guide for details about upgrading firmware.

For details about changing the firmware of theSun Blade 8000 Chassis, refer to the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation.

Note –

N1 System Manager does not support upgrading the firmware on the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis. N1 System Manager does support upgrading the firmware on the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules.

Monitoring the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System

This section explains monitoring for Sun Blade 8000 Modular System. Sun Blade 8000 Modular System and any installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules must be discovered before running any of the procedures in this section.

ProcedureTo View Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Server Groups

  1. Log in to N1 System Manager command-line environment.

    See Accessing the N1 System Manager Through the Command Line in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

  2. To view Sun Blade 8000 Modular System server groups, use the show group command.


    N1-ok> show group

    A list of all server groups registered in N1 System Manager appears. The browser interface Servers by Group panel is also populated with the list of server groups. Server groups composed of Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules are easily identified by their cmm-chassisID naming convention.

    Figure 2–1 Viewing Chassis Server Groups

    Screen sample: Viewing Chassis Server Groups

    A chassis server group behaves in the same way as a logical group in N1 System Manager 1.3. For information on the behavior and management of monitored server groups in N1 System Manager 1.3, see Chapter 5, Managing Servers and Server Groups, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

    To determine whether Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules have failed, view Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the chassis server group as described in the next procedure. Then view Sun Blade X8400 Server Module details as described in To View Sun Blade X8400 Server Module Details.

See Also

Listing Managed Server and Groups in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

ProcedureTo View Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in a Chassis Server Group

A Sun Blade 8000 Chassis itself cannot belong to any group. Only Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules can be grouped.

  1. Log in to the N1 System Manager command-line environment.

  2. To view Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in a chassis server group, type the following command.


    N1-ok> show group cmm-groupID

    Note that cmm-groupID is the name of the group containing the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis and any installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules.

    A list of all Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the group appears. The browser interface Servers by Group panel is also populated with the list of server groups.

    Figure 2–2 Viewing Servers in a Chassis Server Group

    Screen sample: Viewing servers in a chassis server group

See Also

Listing Managed Server and Groups in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

ProcedureTo View Sun Blade X8400 Server Module Details

  1. Log in to the N1 System Manager command-line environment.

  2. To view Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules details, enter the following command.


    N1-ok> show server serverID

    Detailed information for the specified Sun Blade X8400 Server Module appears. Information about the selected Sun Blade X8400 Server Module is also provided on the Server Details page in the browser interface.

    Figure 2–3 Viewing Sun Blade X8400 Server Module Blade Details

    Screen sample: Viewing B8400 blade details.

    The Server Details page displays additional information only for blades as shown by the preceding figure:

    • Network Boot Devices — Selecting Network Boot Devices displays the Network Boot Devices page as shown by the following figure. The Network Boot Device page displays a list of boot target identifiers, which refer to the PXE enabled Ethernet ports available to that Sun Blade X8400 Server Module. These ports are located on the I/O modules on the back of the chassis. Each boot target identifier is unique within a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module. The Network Boot Device page also displays the physical location of the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module in the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis. Network Boot devices are displayed in the PCI bus probe order. A Sun Blade 8000 Chassis that is fully populated with Gigabit Ethernet I/O modules supports a maximum of 12 network boot devices per Sun Blade X8400 Server Module.

    • Location ID — The ID of the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis in which the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module is installed. The location ID is the same as the chassisID portion of the chassis group to which the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module belongs. This ID changes if the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module is moved to a different Sun Blade 8000 Chassis

    • GUID — The Globally Unique Identifier assigned to the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module. The guid is static, and does not change if the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module is moved to a different Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

    Figure 2–4 Network Boot Devices

    Screen sample: B8400 blade Network Boot Devices page

    The location information displayed by the Network Boot Devices page is from the rear view of the B8000 chassis. The values displayed are as follows:

    • Network Expansion Module (NEM) — NEM Port [N.0, N.1] corresponds to the NEM port labels on the chassis. N is the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module number and can vary from 0 to 9. For more information, see the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation. NEM ports vary from 0 – 3 and not from 0 – 9. The port number corresponds to the Ethernet port on the NEM.

      NEM Slot [0,1,2,3] corresponds to the position of the NEM on the chassis reading from top (3) to bottom (0).

    • PCI Express Module (EM) — EM Slot EMN.a and EMN.b corresponds to the EM labels on the chassis. N is the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module number can vary from 0-9. For more information, see the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation.

See Also

Viewing Managed Server Details and Group Members in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

Managing a Sun Blade 8000 Modular System

N1 System Manager supports all of the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis as a managed group of servers. This section provides procedures for managing a Sun Blade 8000 Modular System.

N1 System Manager supports all of the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis as a managed group of servers.

Sun Blade 8000 Chassis is assigned the name cmm-chassisID, where chassisID is the ID of the chassis. This ID is factory assigned.

N1 System Manager can be used to discover and manage the Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the chassis.

N1 System Manager cannot be used to discover and manage the Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

Chassis Group Operation Restrictions

Using N1 System Manager, groups of Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in the chassis can be managed as groups of servers in the same way as described in Chapter 5, Managing Servers and Server Groups, in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide. All group operations are supported, except for the following:

Launching the ILOM Web GUI for Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules

This section describes how to launch the ILOM Web GUI that enables you to manage the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System from the N1 System Manager browser interface.

ProcedureTo Launch the ILOM Web GUI

Before You Begin

You must already have discovered any installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules.

You must know the complete URL and the login and password of an account on the SC. By default, you can enter the IP address of the CMM as configured in Configuring the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System.

  1. In the N1 System Manager browser interface, choose the Launch ILOM Web GUI option from the Actions list in the System Dashboard.

  2. Edit the URL if it needs to be changed.

    The first time you launch the ILOM Web GUI, you are prompted for the URL of the SC for the ILOM Web GUI. Subsequently, each time you launch the ILOM Web GUI, you are prompted to verify the URL you previously entered.

Moving and Replacing Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules

This section provides procedures for moving a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module in a Sun Blade 8000 Chassis, and for replacing Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules in a Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

For general information about moving and replacing Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules, see the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System hardware documentation. For troubleshooting information related to the network boot list, see Troubleshooting Guidelines and Logs in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.1 Troubleshooting Guide.

ProcedureTo Move a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module From One Sun Blade 8000 Chassis to Another Chassis

Before You Begin

You must already have discovered the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module that you want to move.

  1. Open the ILOM Web GUI for the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module that you want to move.

    See Connecting to the Sun ILOM Web GUI for a Managed Server in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide for details.

  2. Prepare the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module for a safe removal.

    See the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation for details.

  3. Physically move the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module to the target Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

    See the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation for details.

  4. Use the set server command with the refresh subcommand to register the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module in its new Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

    You can also do perform this action by choosing the Refresh action for the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module in the browser interface.

  5. In the browser interface, verify that the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module appears in its new Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

ProcedureTo Add a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module to a Partially Populated Sun Blade 8000 Chassis

  1. Physically add the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module server to the partially populated target Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

    See the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation for details.

  2. Discover the new Sun Blade X8400 Server Module.

    See Discovering the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System And Any Installed Sun Blade X8400 Server Modules for details.

  3. In the browser interface, verify that the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module appears in its new Sun Blade 8000 Chassis.

ProcedureTo Remove a Sun Blade X8400 Server Module From a Sun Blade 8000 Chassis and Delete it From N1 System Manager

  1. Open the ILOM Web GUI for the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module that you want to move.

    See Connecting to the Sun ILOM Web GUI for a Managed Server in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide for details.

  2. Prepare the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module for a safe removal.

    See the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System documentation for details.

  3. Use the delete server command with the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module name to delete the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module from N1 System Manager.

    See delete server in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Command Line Reference Manual for details.