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

  1. Logging into the web interface

  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