Planning for advanced management module configuration

The BladeCenter S system comes with a single hot-swap advanced management module located in the management module bay. Plan for configuration by making decisions and gathering information for Ethernet interfaces, alerts, login profiles, network protocols, and security.

The advanced management module is used to configure the BladeCenter S system and installed modules, such as Ethernet switch module IP addresses.

The advanced management module communicates with the service processor in each blade server for functions such as:

• Blade server power-on requests
• Blade server error and event reporting
• Blade server requests for keyboard, mouse, and video
• Blade server requests for CD-ROM drive and USB port

The advanced management module also communicates with the I/O modules, power modules, fan modules, and blade servers to detect presence or absence and any error conditions, and sending alerts when required.

Use the information provided in this section along with the Advanced management module configuration worksheet to plan for the configuration of the advanced management module.

• Advanced management module general settings
  General settings for the advanced management module include name, contact, location, and real-time clock settings.
• Advanced management module user profile settings
  You can specify up to 12 login profiles that can access the advanced management module.
• Advanced management module alert settings
  Configure who should receive critical alerts, warning alerts, and system alerts and how to transmit the alert notifications.
• Advanced management module serial port settings
  You can configure the communications settings for the advanced management module serial port, such as the baud rate, error checking parity, and number of stop bits.
• Advanced management module port assignments
  Determine how to configure the ports on the advanced management module.
• Advanced management module network interface settings
  You can configure an external Ethernet network interface used to communicate with the remote management and console.
• Advanced management module network protocols settings
  Determine the information to be used for each of the protocols supported by the BladeCenter S system.
• Advanced management module security settings
  Determine the information to be used for network security.

Related concepts:

Advanced management module

Related tasks:

Configuring the advanced management module

Related information:

Advanced management module documentation