IBM DSA Log Doubt
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Whether any devices such as CPU card is present in the IBM server x3950.If yes means please provide me the information about the CPU Card
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller Sir one doubt.Can I know why the DSA log shows that the CPU Card fault error.Whether the above mentioned device have any issue with the node 1 Sir
As was mentioned before... you really need to get in touch with Lenovo x86 support. This is a hardware fault. You probably won't be able to fix it without replacement parts.
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller Sir one doubt.Can I know why the DSA log shows that the CPU Card fault error.Whether the above mentioned device have any issue with the node 1 Sir
I don't know anyone who has ever worked with this equipment. Lenovo gear is very rare here in the US, and now that they've been caught as a malware distributor, I don't know anyone who would do business with them at all. I assume that if the log shows an error, the device is faulty. You must talk to your Lenovo dealer for this.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller Sir one doubt.Can I know why the DSA log shows that the CPU Card fault error.Whether the above mentioned device have any issue with the node 1 Sir
I don't know anyone who has ever worked with this equipment. Lenovo gear is very rare here in the US, and now that they've been caught as a malware distributor, I don't know anyone who would do business with them at all.
Yet, sadly the whole state government and state and local courts exclusively use Lenovo desktops and servers..
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@Lakshmana said:
Whether any devices such as CPU card is present in the IBM server x3950.If yes means please provide me the information about the CPU Card
From looking at the server it looks like a odd implementation of a blade server. It sounds like possibly a cpu in one of those nodes is bad but, I have no idea.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Yet, sadly the whole state government and state and local courts exclusively use Lenovo desktops and servers..
Not groups concerned with being cost effective, supporting the US economy, being secure or with the good of their users in mind. Sounds like your local governments like sending private American data and American tax dollars to China. Wonderful.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
From looking at the server it looks like a odd implementation of a blade server. It sounds like possibly a cpu in one of those nodes is bad but, I have no idea.
Not a blade server. It's a modular design from the mainframe world where CPUs are kept on cards so that they can be easily replaced or upgraded. It's still a single server. Once you are getting into eight sockets and higher Intels or any enteprise servers over two sockets this becomes almost the de facto design choice. You'll find this in nearly all high end IBM (real IBM, not that cheap Lenovo crap), Oracle and Fujitsu systems. In this case, this is a lower end Lenovo that also works this way.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
From looking at the server it looks like a odd implementation of a blade server. It sounds like possibly a cpu in one of those nodes is bad but, I have no idea.
Not a blade server. It's a modular design from the mainframe world where CPUs are kept on cards so that they can be easily replaced or upgraded. It's still a single server. Once you are getting into eight sockets and higher Intels or any enteprise servers over two sockets this becomes almost the de facto design choice. You'll find this in nearly all high end IBM (real IBM, not that cheap Lenovo crap), Oracle and Fujitsu systems. In this case, this is a lower end Lenovo that also works this way.
Ah, I haven't used anything from IBM expect the AS400 or i Series/System I whatever they call it now. A place a did contract work for at their data center had about 100 of them running their eCommerce/catalog website.
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@scottalanmiller Sir this is not a CPU Card for this server because it the card mentioned will be somewhat small in size.I say this after consulting with my senior engineers.The senior Engineers said that it was JVM,Scott.
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller Sir this is not a CPU Card for this server because it the card mentioned will be somewhat small in size.I say this after consulting with my senior engineers.The senior Engineers said that it was JVM,Scott.
Well it IS a CPU card, CPUs are tiny AND a JVM is a piece of software, not hardware, so there can't be a picture of one. Not sure why your senior engineer is lying to you, but the things that he is saying aren't even remotely possible or logical.
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@scottalanmiller OK When I asked my friend in Dubai he said that CPU card was the place where the CPU is being fixed in the board.
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller OK When I asked my friend in Dubai he said that CPU card was the place where the CPU is being fixed in the board.
Right, obviously. And that's why I provided you a picture of the board to which the CPU is attached.
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@scottalanmiller OK Thank you Scott
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I provided the link to the full documentation. It's trivial to look up Lenovo's official documents that explain what a CPU card is, provide you the picture of it (that I provided), etc. If your friends are telling you bad information, they are failing to 1) knew very basic things about computers and 2) not looking up things that they obviously know nothing about and 3) giving you bad information while pretending to know something about it.
Either they hate you are and trying to hurt you. Or they are willing to hurt you in order to hide their incompetence. In either case, I would stop talking to these people.
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@scottalanmiller I accept your advise and be careful with seniors as well as my friends also
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A surprisingly high number of people in IT are faking that they are able to do their jobs. It's very important for your own career to recognize when people actually know what they are talking about and when they are bluffing. Which people you can trust with advice and which you cannot.
