Knowledge Article: ID B0E008001: Blade %d is not responding on the management bus.

Description

The specified blade is not responding to the advanced management module on the blade management bus.

Causes

The management module attempts, but fails to communicate with the blade because the blade is not responding.

Implications

The management module generates this event.

Resolutions

Perform these steps:

1. Reseat the advanced management module.
2. Initiate a failover to the standby advanced management module.
3. Reset the service processor on the blade server.
4. Reseat the blade server.
5. Update the firmware for the service processor on the blade server. You can find firmware on the IBM BladeCenter software and device drivers Web page.

Additional information

To find additional troubleshooting help, visit the "IBM Support & downloads" Web site, select "BladeCenter" for "Browse products for support" panel. At "Support & downloads quick start" page, select your product for "Choose your products", and "Troubleshooting" for "Choose your page", then select "View your page" for "See your results". To narrow the results, search with keywords that are related to this article, such as "fail", "Chassis", etc. in the "Search support" field at the right panel.

To download the latest firmware or drivers, visit the "Fix Central" Web site, select "BladeCenter" for "Product Group" (from the pull-down lists), select your product for "Product" (from the pull-down lists), select your product machine type for "Product" (from the pull-down lists), and select your operating system for "Operating system" (from the pull-down lists). You can refine the search by selecting the category of the download of your interest from the "Refine results" list.