Setting OS Boot Monitoring in BIOS
Use this task as directed by other processes, such as the
disk image recovery, or as instructed by Grass Valley Support.
- When the FT Server is running the Windows Operating System, OS Boot Monitoring must be enabled to support the primary fault tolerant failover behavior in which one CPU/IO module takes the place of the other CPU/IO module.
- When the FT Server is not running the Windows Operating System, such as when running from Acronis during a disk image recovery process, OS Boot Monitoring must be disabled. If enabled, the FT server continually reboots and disrupts the disk image recovery process.
- Power on one CPU/IO module. POST will be performed on this CPU/IO module.
- A message appears at the lower left of the screen (shown below), prompting for startup of the BIOS setup utility SETUP.
- Press F2 to start the SETUP utility, while the above message is displayed.
- Select the Server tab.
- Select Monitoring Configuration and press Enter.
- Select OS Boot Monitoring.
- Set to Enabled or Disabled, as appropriate.
- Press F10 to save and exit.
