How to Install Supplemental Software

There are several supplemental software components available for your Sun Fire server. You have two options for installation: Typical, where basic choices are made for you (as indicated in the table below), and Custom, which is a superset of Typical and includes all software components of Typical plus additional software components.

Note - If you have already installed the supplemental software, running the installation again does not necessarily reinstall the supplemental software. It might result in the components being removed. Carefully review the dialog boxes during supplemental software installation to ensure that the results are as expected.

Available Components	Default Option
LSI MegaRAID Storage Manager—Allows you to configure, monitor, and maintain RAID on the LSI SAS 1064/1068 integrated RAID controller. Also installs an SNMP agent that captures SNMP data on the LSI SAS 1064/1068 integrated RAID controller. Requires the Windows Component for SNMP service for operation	Typical
IPMItool—Command line utility that reads the sensor data repository (SDR) and displays sensor values, System Event Log (SEL), Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) inventory information, gets and sets LAN configuration parameters, and performs chassis power control operations via the BMC (also called the Service Processor).	Typical
AMD MCAT—Machine Check Analysis Tool (MCAT) is a command line utility that takes Windows System Event Log (.evt) file as an argument and decodes the MCA error logs into human readable format.	Custom
AMD Power Monitor—AMD Power Monitor is intended to show the current frequency, voltage, utilization and power savings of each core on each processor in the system.	Custom

Note - As of the publication of this document, the server's PCI-X on-board network ports can not be used to initiate an Intel NIC team with Windows Server 2008 R2. Your Windows installation will use the generic Microsoft Intel NIC driver which does not include the teaming feature. However, if you want to include the on-board network ports as part of an Intel NIC team, you can install an optional Intel PCI-E network card (82571–based or newer) supported for Windows Server 2008 R2, install its driver (which provides Intel's Advanced Networking Services), and include the on-board network ports as part of a multi-vendor team initiated through the PCI-E network card.

Do one of the following depending on the last step you performed in How to Update the Server-Specific Drivers:
- You have completed updating the server-specific drivers and the Installation Package Supplemental Software selection dialog box is now displayed (see below). Proceed to Step 2.
- You have restarted the server after updating the server-specific drivers. Perform the following to restart InstallPack and get to the Supplemental Software installation wizard:
  1. Relaunch InstallPack as described in Step 1 of How to Update the Server-Specific Drivers.
  2. At the InstallPack selection dialog, ensure that Supplemental Software is the only option selected.
  3. Click Next.
    The Installation Package Supplemental Software selection dialog box is now displayed
Click Next to accept the Typical settings, or select Custom to choose the options to install.
Component installation wizards guide you through the installation of each of the selected supplemental software components.
Once the supplemental software has been installed, click Finish.
Click Yes at the System Setting Change dialog box to restart your system. If you ran the Sun Fire Installation Package software from the Tools and Drivers CD, remove the CD now.

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