IBM 2019A1X Installation Guide - Page 11
Introduction, Advanced Management Module. - features
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Chapter 1. Introduction This Installation Guide contains information about installing your IBM® xSeries® Advanced Management Module. This Installation Guide provides the following information: v Chapter 2, "External indicators, controls, and connectors," on page 7 v Chapter 3, "Installing a management module," on page 11 v Chapter 4, "Configuring the management module," on page 25 The advanced management module is a hot-swap BladeCenter module that you use to configure and manage all installed BladeCenter components. The advanced management module provides system-management functions and keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) multiplexing for all the blade servers in the BladeCenter unit that support KVM. It controls a serial port for remote connection; the external keyboard, mouse, and video connections for use by a local console; and a 10/100 Mbps Ethernet remote-management connection. The advanced management module is referred to throughout this document as the management module. All BladeCenter units come with at least one management module. Some BladeCenter units support management-module redundancy. Only one management module can be active in each BladeCenter unit. If you install a standby management module, it remains inactive until it is switched to act as the active management module. If two management modules are installed in a BladeCenter unit, both must always have the same level of firmware and the same IP address. The firmware must support redundant management-module function, to ensure changeover of control from the active management module to the standby management module. The latest level of management-module firmware is available at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/. The service processor in the management module communicates with the service processor in each blade server to support features such as blade-server power-on requests, error and event reporting, KVM requests, and requests to use the BladeCenter shared media tray (removable-media drives and USB connector). © Copyright IBM Corp. 2011 1
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