IBM RSA II Infrastructure SOP

Many of our physical machines use RSA II cards for remote management.

Contact Information

Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team

Contact: #fedora-admin, sysadmin-main

Location: PHX, ibiblio

Servers: All physical IBM machines

Purpose: Provide remote management for our physical IBM machines

Restarting the RSA II card

To restart a hung RSA II card, cut off all power to the machine, wait a few seconds, and restart everything.

To restart the card without rebooting the machine:

1. Download and install the IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II Daemon
   1. yum install libusb-devel # (needed by the RSA II daemon)
   2. Download the correct tarball from http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5071676&brandind=5000008 (TODO: check if this can be packaged in Fedora)
   3. Extract the tarball and run ./install.sh --update
2. Download and extract the IBM Advanced Settings Utility (http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=TOOL-ASU&brandind=5000016, warning: this tarball dumps files in the current working directory)
3. Issue a

   ./asu64 rebootrsa

   to reboot the RSA II.
4. Clean up: yum remove ibmusbasm64