Knowledge Article: ID B0F00E001: A device on blade %d does not support Open Fabric Manager

Description

An expansion card option on the specified blade server does not support Open Fabric Manager.

Causes

The device firmware does not support Open Fabric Manager.

Implications

An expansion card option that does not support BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager (BOFM) generates this event.

Resolutions

See the BladeCenter Installation and User"s Guide to determine which expansion card options support Open Fabric Manager. If the expansion card option is supported, update the firmware for the expansion card option.

The BladeCenter Installation and User"s Guide is available on the Web.

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.