BladeCenter Access Infrastructure SOP

Many of the builders in PHX are blades in a blade center.

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 bladecenter lets you reset power, etc. It's hostname is bc1-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

redirect page to new infra-docs

This SOP has moved to the fedora Infrastructure SOP git repo. Please see the current document at: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org/infra/docs/bladecenter.txt

For changes, questions or comments, please contact anyone in the Fedora Infrastructure team.