ServerConductor/Blade Server Manager Description and Reference

### 4.2.1 Starting and stopping the console service

This subsection describes how to start and stop the console service.

Organization of this subsection
  (1) Starting
  (2) Stopping
  (3) Host Management window

#### (1) Starting

How to start:

1. From the Start menu, choose the Programs menu.
2. Choose the ServerConductor group.
3. Choose Console Service.
   The ServerConductor Console Service - Login dialog box appears.

4. Select the manager service at the connection destination.
   Select a manager service at the connection destination. You can select multiple manager services as connection targets.
5. Select the user type.
   Select either administrator or sub-administrator.
6. Click the OK button.
   When login authentication is successful, the console service starts.

If multiple manager services were selected as connection targets for the console service, login authentication is attempted sequentially from the top of the list of manager services at the connection destination. If an authentication fails (such as because a manager service requires a different password), a message is displayed asking whether login to that manager service is to be attempted again. In the query message, choosing the Log in again button enables you to re-enter the password for the manager service that resulted in the authentication error. If you choose the Do not log in again button, the console service establishes connection with only those manager services where authentication was successful, and then starts.

Re-login and additional login after starting
  To log out from all the manager services and then log in to them again, in the Host Management window, from the File menu, choose Log in again.
  To log in to a specific manager service while keeping alive the connections to the current manager services that have been logged onto, from the File menu, choose Additional Login.

#### (2) Stopping

To stop the console service, from the File menu, choose Ending the Console Service.

#### (3) Host Management window

When the console service starts, the Host Management window is displayed (this is the window with Host Management displayed in the title bar).

The following table describes the information that is listed in the Host Management window:

Displayed information | Description
--- | ---
Icons | The host status is displayed with icons: Server: (normal) (alert notification exists) (inactive) Manager: (normal) (alert notification exists) (inactive) Site: (normal) (alert notification exists) None (inactive) Domain: (normal) (alert notification exists) None (inactive)
Computer Name | Displays the computer name set in the OS. For a Linux server, the host name is displayed.
Host Name | Displays the host name. For a non-host entity, the site name, domain name, or manager's computer name is displayed.
OS Name | Displays the host's OS name.
Unconfirmed Alert | If there is an unconfirmed alert, Yes is displayed.
Power Control | In the case of a Windows or Linux server whose power can be controlled through a LAN port, BMC is displayed in this column.

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