The following terminology is used in this documentation.
- alarm
- Alarms are a signal for attention, often used interchangeably
with alerts. In addition, alerts can also mean an indication from
an LED, such as from the alarm panel on the BladeCenter® T chassis.
- alert
- Alerts provide notification
of an event on the advanced management module. These notifications
can be in the form of Director events, e-mail, or Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) traps.
- command-line interface
- The IBM® BladeCenter advanced management-module
command-line interface (CLI) provides direct access to BladeCenter management functions as an
alternative to using the Web-based interface. Use the command-line
interface to issue commands to control the power and configuration
of the management module and other components that are in a BladeCenter chassis.
- event
- Events are internal entities that have an event number and a structured
format that may allow notification.
- group
- In an event description, denotes one or more components. For example,
there may be a memory group, which consists of one or more memory
DIMMs.
- IPMI
- Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is a specification
that defines the interfaces used by system administrators to manage
a system. IPMI is used to provide information between the service
processor on the blade server and the advanced management module.
- management module
- A management module is a hot-swap module that you use to configure
and manage all installed BladeCenter components.
There are three types of management modules:
- Management module. This is the management module that was provided
when BladeCenter products
were first introduced.
- Advanced management module. The advanced management module replaced
the management module. It is available for the BladeCenter E, BladeCenter H, and BladeCenter S chassis.
- Chassis management module. The original management module for
the BladeCenter T chassis
is called the chassis management module. The chassis management module
2 is the advanced management module version for the BladeCenter T
chassis.
- service processor
- Generic term for baseboard management controllers (BMC), Integrated
System Management Processors (ISMP), and Advanced System Management
(ASM) processors. These hardware-based management processors monitor
system platform events such as fan failures and temperature or voltage
increases, and logs their occurrence. They are also used for hardware
control, such as powering the node on and off.
- SNMP trap
- A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap is a message
which is initiated by a network element (advanced management module
or agent) and sent to the network management system (SNMP user).
- VPD
- Vital product data (VPD) is stored on each component in a BladeCenter chassis and
is available through the advanced management module. VPD includes
information about the component, such as product specifications, firmware
versions, part numbers and serial numbers.