chmanual command

This command tests the BladeCenter unit call-home feature setup.

Table 1. chmanual command
Function What it does Command Valid targets
Create call-home problem message Create a call-home problem message for a management module or blade server. chmanual -desc "description"

where "description" is a quote-delimited problem description of 1 to 100 characters in length.

This command can only be run by users who have one or more of the following command authorities:
  • Supervisor
  • Chassis account management
  • Chassis log management
  • Chassis administration
  • Chassis configuration
  • Blade administration
  • Blade configuration
  • Blade remote presence
  • I/O module administration
  • I/O module configuration
See Commands and user authority for additional information.
                           -T system
                        
                           -T system:blade[x]
                        

where x is the blade server bay number.

Generate call-home test call home Manually generate a test call-home event that transmits the sample call-home problem message. chmanual -test
This command can only be run by users who have one or more of the following command authorities:
  • Supervisor
  • Chassis account management
  • Chassis log management
  • Chassis administration
  • Chassis configuration
  • Blade administration
  • Blade configuration
  • Blade remote presence
  • I/O module administration
  • I/O module configuration
See Commands and user authority for additional information.
                           -T system
                        

Example:

To create a call-home test message, at the system:> prompt, type
                  chmanual -desc "This is a test." 
               
To manually send a test message, while the system is set as the persistent command environment, at the system> prompt, type
                  chmanual -test
               

The following example shows the information that is returned from these two commands:

               system> chmanual -desc "This is a test."
OK
system> chmanual -test
OK
system>