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This comprehensive troubleshooting guide addresses common issues encountered with blade servers, including temperature spikes, non-functioning monitors, unrecognized optical drives, communication failures with the network, and power anomalies in BladeCenter chassis. Each exercise illustrates step-by-step solutions to problems such as firmware upgrades, availability of Vital Product Data (VPD), and errors displayed in the Advanced Management Module. Use this guide to identify problems and implement effective solutions for optimal server performance.
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Exercise 1 A temperature increase within seconds after powering up the blade server.
Exercise 2 The IBM monitor is not working
Exercise 3 The optical drive is not recognized by any blade server.
Exercise 4 A storage drive passes the Fixed Disk or SAS Attached Disk diagnostics test, but the problem remains.
Exercise 5 One or more blade servers are unable to communicate with the network.
Exercise 6 Advanced Management Module FRU part number 44X3058 can only upgrade to firmware version BPET62C (or later).
Exercise 7 The system might appear to be hung during a boot of the blade server
Exercise 8 BladeCenter H or HT chassis has no power
Exercise 9 • The ac and dc LEDs are not lit for multiple power supplies
Exercise 10 • The dc LED is not lit but ac LED is lit
Exercise 11 • Fan modules continually cycle to full speed
Exercise 12 • Blade server cannot communicate with external network
Exercise 13 • LEDs are not lit for a blade server
Exercise 14 • No VPD available from advanced management module
Exercise 15 • Power LED continually flashes rapidly
Exercise 16 • I/O module will not power on
Exercise 17 • Cannot communicate with external ports on I/O module
Exercise 18 • Blade server cannot access the media tray
Exercise 19 • Multiple blade servers cannot access the media tray
Exercise 20 • Cannot log in to the advanced management module
Can ping the advanced management module but cannot access it
Advanced management module is displaying built-in self test (BIST) errors