If your system includes the master console hardware
product option, you must install it and
perform initial hardware configuration for it.
Before you begin
the installation, ensure that you have completed
the following tasks:
- Important: Review and complete
all of the safety checks that are
detailed in the documentation for the master console IBM® eServer™ xSeries® hardware,
the keyboard, and
the display.
- Ensure that you have all the customer-completed
information that you need,
including the configuration data table, hardware location chart, and
the cable
connection table, which are provided at www.ibm.com/storage/support/2145.
The IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller
Planning Guide provides
guidelines for completing these tables
and charts.
If
you experience a problem with your master console,
use the 2145 machine type and the serial number
of the SAN Volume Controller node
that was installed with the master console to
open a hardware problem.
Perform the following
steps to install the master console hardware
option:
Note: Do
not install the pull-out monitor and keyboard of the master console directly
below a SAN Volume Controller node.
The front panel of the node protrudes beyond
the front of the rack and overlaps part of the monitor, which prevents
you
from being able to open it.
- Install
the master console hardware
in the rack, following the hardware installation
instructions that are provided by your xSeries Installation
Guide and by the
instructions that are provided with the mounting rails.
If
there are any devices directly above and below the master console,
it might
be very difficult to reach in and connect the cables to the back of
the server
after it is placed in the rack. If that is the only available slot,
connect
the keyboard, mouse, monitor, and Ethernet cables at the back of the
master
console before you install it in the rack. Leave the other end of
the Ethernet
cable disconnected from the network until you are directed to connect
it.
Important: Do not follow any software installation
procedures
in the xSeries Installation
Guide.
- Ensure that no cables are connected
to the Ethernet ports.
- Turn on the master console.
- Type administrator in the
User ID field.
- Type passw0rd in
the password field; this password
applies to all required password fields. The master console continues
to start.
Note: This process
can take several minutes before all services are started and operations
are
completely responsive.
- Click OK if
you receive any messages
that a network interface card port is offline.
- Check that the reference identification
tag is securely fastened
to the front panel of the master console. The tag indicates the machine
type 2145 and
the serial number of the SAN Volume Controller node
that is being installed with the master console.
- Connect the master console to
the Ethernet port that is designated in the Cable
connection table.