I've had this issue before with PE1750, PE1850's and a few 2850's.  Most of
the time, reapplying the ESM/BMC firmware fixes it, but in one case, I think
we had to replace the ESM and riser card (I think I'm remembering this
correctly).

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Mikolaj Kucharski
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have unknown 'ESM Version' as shown below, and when server is booting
> during POST screen it's written:
>
>        Embedded server management is not present
>
>
> but it is present, and I cannot communicate with it. Is there any way to
> reset it or is it possible that ESM/BMC got broken even if DRAC is working?
> I already tried to unplug the server from power and wait 30 seconds.
>
>
> Is there a way to replace it if I have spare servers which
> are in our broken servers pool, but have good mobo?
>
>
> # racadm -r 192.168.234.236 -u root -p calvin getsysinfo
>
> RAC Information:
> RAC Date/Time         = DSU+01:50:57
> Firmware Version      = 3.38 (Build 12.14)
> Firmware Updated      = DSU+00:16:09
> Hardware Version      = A04
> Current IP Address    = 192.168.50.181
> Current IP Gateway    = 192.168.50.1
> Current IP Netmask    = 255.255.255.0
> DHCP enabled          = FALSE
> Current DNS Server 1  = 192.168.0.5
> Current DNS Server 2  = 192.168.0.6
> DNS Servers from DHCP = FALSE
> PCMCIA Card Info      = N/A
>
> System Information:
> System ID    =
> System Model =
> BIOS Version =
> Asset Tag    =
> Service Tag  =
> Hostname     =
> OS name      =
> ESM Version  = Unknown
>
> Watchdog Information:
> Recovery Action         = No Action
> Present countdown value = 0
> Initial countdown value = 0
>
> RAC Firmware Status Flags:
> Global Reset Pending Flag = 0
>
> --
> best regards
> q#
>
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