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CHAPTER 36
Managing Blade Servers
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Blade Server Management, page 585
• Guidelines for Removing and Decommissioning Blade Servers, page 586
• Booting Blade Servers, page 586
• Shutting Down Blade Servers, page 588
• Resetting a Blade Server, page 589
• Avoiding Unexpected Server Power Changes, page 590
• Reacknowledging a Blade Server, page 591
• Removing a Server from a Chassis, page 591
• Decommissioning a Blade Server, page 592
• Recommissioning a Blade Server, page 593
• Reacknowledging a Server Slot in a Chassis, page 593
• Removing a Non-Existent Blade Server from the Configuration Database, page 594
• Turning the Locator LED for a Blade Server On and Off, page 594
• Resetting the CMOS for a Blade Server, page 594
• Resetting the CIMC for a Blade Server, page 595
• Recovering the Corrupt BIOS on a Blade Server, page 595
• Viewing the POST Results for a Blade Server, page 596
• Issuing an NMI from a Blade Server, page 597
Blade Server Management
You can manage and monitor all blade servers in a Cisco UCS domain through Cisco UCS Manager. Some
blade server management tasks, such as changes to the power state, can be performed from the server and
service profile.
Cisco UCS Manager GUI Configuration Guide, Release 2.0
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