Expansion card ports and LAN on Motherboard (LOM) ports are both displayed by the Chassis Management Module (CMM) - IBM Flex System

Resolving The Problem

Source

RETAIN tip: H206315

Symptom

The LAN on Motherboard (LOM) interface is disabled when a network expansion card is installed, but the Chassis Management Module (CMM) displays both the LOM network interface and expansion card network interface addresses for an expansion card in slot-1.

Affected Configurations

The system can be any of the following IBM servers:

• Flex System x240 Compute Node, type 8737, any model
• Flex System x240 Compute Node, type 8738, any model

This tip is not software specific.

This tip is not option specific.

The following system firmware levels are affected:

• IMM2 firmware version 1.78 Build ID: 1AOO36E and earlier

The system has the symptom described above.

Solution

This behavior was corrected in Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) firmware version 1.88 Build ID: 1AOO40A and later.

The file is available by selecting the appropriate Product Group, type of System, Product name, Product machine type, and Operating system on IBM Support's Fix Central web page, at the following URL:

• http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Additional Information

This issue does not affect the functioning of the expansion card network interfaces or the enumeration of its interfaces and ports.