IBM Advanced System Management Device Driver Diskette version 1.31 CONTENTS -------- 1.0 Overview 2.0 Change History 3.0 System Management Device Driver installation instructions 4.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number 5.0 Trademarks and Notices 6.0 Disclaimer 1.0 Overview ------------- This diskette contains device drivers for the following service processor hardware: - Advanced System Management PCI Adapter card - Advanced System Management Processor, which is part of the planar board on specific models of Netfinity and IBM eServer xSeries servers - Automatic Server Restart (ASR) which is built onto the planar board of specific models of xSeries servers - Remote Supervisor Adapter, which is an option on specific models of xSeries servers 2.0 Change History ------------------- 2.1 Advanced System Management Device Driver version 1.30 to 1.31 Added support for future xSeries servers. 2.2 Advanced System Management Device Driver version 1.29 to 1.30 Added support for future xSeries servers. 2.3 Advanced System Management Device Driver version 1.28 to 1.29 Added support for future xSeries servers. 2.4 Advanced System Management Device Driver version 1.27 to 1.28 For xSeries servers x200 and x300 running NetWare 6 and xSeries servers x232 and x342 without the Remote Supervisor Adapter running NetWare 6: Fixed a bug in the NetWare driver that prevented operation of the Automatic Server Restart (ASR) function when running under NetWare 6. 2.5 Advanced System Management Device Driver version 1.26 to 1.27 For xSeries and Netfinity servers with the Advanced System Management PCI Adapter card, or the Advanced System Management Processor, or the Remote Supervisor Adapter: Fixed a bug in that intermittently caused the Error Log 75% Full event and the Error Log 100% Full event to be posted continuously. 3.0 System Management Device Driver installation instructions -------------------------------------------------------------- Note: The Netfinity Manager or IBM Director application program must be stopped before any of these service processor device drivers can be installed. Please refer to Netfinity Manager or IBM Director documentation for instructions on how to stop these programs. By following the installation instructions shown below, the correct System Management Device Driver will be automatically installed onto your Netfinity Server. If the installation is being done from this diskette, insert this diskette into the server's floppy diskette drive, bring up a command prompt window, screen, or session, and enter one of the following commands. The examples shown below assume the floppy drive is A:. If the installation is being done from the Advanced Systems Management Utilities CD-ROM, insert this CD-ROM into the server's CD-ROM drive, bring up a command prompt window, screen, or session, and enter one of the following commands. The examples shown below assume the CD-ROM drive is D:. For OS/2, type: A:\OS2\SETUP (if installation is from a diskette) or D:\DD\OS2\SETUP (if installation is from a CD-ROM) Follow the directions that appear on the screen For Novell NetWare type one of the following lines in the System Console Session: LOAD A:\NETWARE\SETUP (if installation is from a diskette) or LOAD D:\DD\NETWARE\SETUP (if installation is from a CD-ROM) Follow the directions that appear on the screen For SCO UnixWare and Caldera Open UNIX: NOTE: The system management driver files are now supplied on this diskette in the data stream format to preserve the case sensitivity of the driver file names. All of the following commands that are entered in a shell prompt are case-sensitive. To install the System Management device drivers: - Open a shell prompt - Mount the installation media * For example, if mounting floppy drive 0, type: mount -F dosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt * For example if mounting the default CD-ROM drive, type: mount -F cdfs -o -ro /dev/cdrom/c1b0t0l0 /mnt - Install the System Management device drivers * If installing from either a diskette or cdrom, type: pkgadd -d /mnt/UW7ADVMG/UW7ADVMG.DS - Follow the directions that appear on the screen. 4.0 WEB Sites and Support Phone Number --------------------------------------- 4.1 IBM Support Web Site: http://www.pc.ibm.com/support 4.2 IBM Marketing eServer xSeries Web Site: http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/eserver/xseries 4.3 If you have any questions about this update, or problems applying the update go to the following Help Center World Telephone Numbers URL: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/YAST-3P2QYL.html 5.0 Trademarks and Notices --------------------------- The following terms are trademarks of the Novell Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: Novell NetWare The following terms are trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: Windows Windows NT Windows 2000 The following terms are trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States or other countries or both: OS/2 Netfinity The following terms are trademarks of Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the United States or other countries or both: SCO UnixWare The following terms are trademarks of Caldera International, Inc. in the United States or other countries or both: Open UNIX 6.0 Disclaimer --------------------------- 6.1 THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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