How to identify which Fabric Expansion Module (FEM) and Raid Expansion Module (REM) is installed on the X86 blades

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Update Date:	2017-09-18
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Solution 1587371.1 : How to identify which Fabric Expansion Module (FEM) and Raid Expansion Module (REM) is installed on the X86 blades

Applies to:

Sun Blade 6048 System - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun Blade 6000 System - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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Description

This document describes how to identify which FEM and REM is installed in a X86 blade

Symptoms

Cannot identify which FEM is installed on a X86 blade
Cannot identify which REM is installed on a X86 blade

Purpose/Scope

This document gives details on how to identify the FEM and REM installed in a X86 blade

Solution

For Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) at version 3.0 or above

Gather an ILOM snapshot from the X86 blade. Instructions are available in the following document <Document: 1448069.1>. Once you have the snapshot, open the following file in the snapshot ./ipmi/@usr@local@bin@ipmiint_fru_print.out

Alternative for all versions of Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)

Gather the following ipmitool output:

ipmitool -I lan -H <SP IP> -U root fru print

Instructions on how to use ipmitool is available in the following document <Document: 1009698.1>

Identifying the FEM and REM

From the output collected above you can identify the FEM and REM installed on the blade, as shown in the example below only FEM0 slot is populated with a SUN DUAL 10GBE PCIE 2.0 FEM and the REM installed is a 6GB/S_SAS_RAID_8P_REM_HBA, we can also see that FEM1 slot is not populated:

FRU Device Description : RFEM0 (ID 128)
Board Product         : SUN DUAL 10GBE PCIE 2.0 FEM
Board Serial          : 010044
Board Part Number     : 375-3648-01
Board Extra           : 50
Board Extra           : x4871a-z/4871a-z

FRU Device Description : RFEM1 (ID 129)

FRU Device Description : RFEM0/NET0 (ID 147)
Product Serial        : 00:1B:21:4F:B6:B4
Product Extra         : 01
Product Extra         : 00:1B:21:4F:B6:B4

FRU Device Description : RFEM0/NET1 (ID 148)
Product Serial        : 00:1B:21:4F:B6:B5
Product Extra         : 01
Product Extra         : 00:1B:21:4F:B6:B5

FRU Device Description : RFEM1/NET0 (ID 149)

FRU Device Description : RFEM1/NET1 (ID 150)
Device not present (Requested sensor, data, or record not found)

FRU Device Description : REM (ID 130)
Board Product         : ASSY,6GB/S_SAS_RAID_8P_REM_HBA
Board Serial          : 1730IPT-1012002695
Board Part Number     : 375-3647-01
Board Extra           : 3
Board Extra           : Niwot_REM

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