BladeCenter Access Infrastructure SOP


   Many of the builders in PHX are blades in a blade center.
   A few other machines are also on blades. 

   Contents

     * 1 Contact Information
     * 2 Common Tasks

          * 2.1 Logging into the web interface
          * 2.2 Using the Serial Console of Blades

Contact Information

   Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team

   Contact: #fedora-admin, sysadmin-main

   Location: PHX

   Purpose: Contains blades used for buildsystems, etc

Common Tasks

  Logging into the web interface

   The web interface to the bladecenters let you reset power, etc. 
   They are bc01-mgmt and bc02-mgmt. 

  Using the Serial Console of Blades

   All of the blades are set up with a serial console over lan (SOL). To use
   this, ssh into the bladecenter. You can then pick your system and bring up
   a console with

 env -T system:blade[x]
 console -o

   where x is the blade number (can be determined from web interface, etc)

   To leave the console session, press Esc (

   For more details on BladeCenter SOL, see
   http://www-304.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?brandind=5000008&lndocid=MIGR-54666