Sun Microsystems SPARC Enterprise T1000, Administration Manual

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Page 5: ...4 Accessing the System Controller 6 Using the Serial Management Port 6 To Use the Serial Management Port 6 Activating the Network Management Port 7 To Activate the Network Management Port 7 Accessing...

Page 6: ...aceful Shutdown 19 ALOM CMT break or console Command 20 L1 A Stop A Keys or Break Key 20 Manual System Reset 20 For More Information about OpenBoot Firmware 21 Getting to the ok Prompt 21 To Get to th...

Page 7: ...Fault Information 37 Multipathing Software 37 For More Information on Multipathing Software 38 Storing FRU Information 38 To Store Information in Available FRU PROMs 38 3 Managing Disk Volumes 39 RAI...

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Page 9: ...ver and Your Server 9 FIGURE 1 4 TIP Connection Between a Server and Another Sun System 11 FIGURE 1 5 Switching between the System Console and the System Controller Prompt 15 FIGURE 2 1 Locator Button...

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Page 11: ...the System Console 23 TABLE 2 1 LED Behavior and Meaning 28 TABLE 2 2 LED Behaviors With Assigned Meanings 29 TABLE 2 3 Virtual Keyswitch Setting for Reset Scenario 33 TABLE 2 4 ALOM CMT Variable Sett...

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Page 13: ...ed into the following chapters Chapter 1 describes the system console and how to access it Chapter 2 describes the tools used to configure system firmware including SunTM Advanced Lights Out Manager A...

Page 14: ...such as shutting down the system booting the system and configuring devices See the following for this information Software documentation that you received with your system Solaris OS documentation wh...

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Page 16: ...Server Site Planning Guide Server specifications for site planning 820 0017 Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 Server Installation Guide Detailed rackmounting cabling power on and configuring information 820...

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Page 19: ...ge 6 Switching Between the System Controller Prompt and the System Console on page 15 ALOM CMT and The sc Prompt on page 16 OpenBoot ok Prompt on page 18 System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable...

Page 20: ...serial management port SER MGT X X Accessing the System Controller on page 6 X X Accessing the System Console Through a Terminal Server on page 9 X X System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable Set...

Page 21: ...Does The system controller console displays the results of the ALOM CMT boot diagnostics and initialization If it receives no user input within 60 seconds ALOM CMT automatically connects to the system...

Page 22: ...figured to allow input and output only by means of ALOM CMT ALOM CMT must be accessed either through the system controller s serial management port SER MGT or the network management port NET MGT By de...

Page 23: ...panel of your server The Solaris OS sees this port as TTYA For instructions on accessing the system console through a terminal server see Accessing the System Console Through a Terminal Server on pag...

Page 24: ...d to the system controller s serial management port you will see the output of the ALOM CMT diagnostics when AC power is first applied or when the system controller has been reset After the diagnostic...

Page 25: ...d during initial system configuration For more information refer to your server s installation guide and the ALOM CMT guide for your server You can assign the network management port a static IP addre...

Page 26: ...ettings take affect 6 After the system controller resets log in to the system controller and issue the shownetwork command to verify network settings To connect through the network management port use...

Page 27: ...ports on the serial interface breakout cable supplied by Cisco for use with the Cisco AS2511 RJ terminal server If you use a terminal server made by another manufacturer check that the serial port pin...

Page 28: ...n a terminal server whose IP address is 192 20 30 10 you would type Accessing the System Console Through a TIP Connection Use this procedure to access the server system console by connecting the seria...

Page 29: ...nsure that the etc remote file on the Sun system contains an entry for hardwire Most releases of Solaris OS software shipped since 1992 contain an etc remote file with the appropriate hardwire entry H...

Page 30: ...system that you intend to use to establish a TIP connection to your server To Modify the etc remote File 1 Determine the release level of Solaris OS software installed on the remote system Type The sy...

Page 31: ...t ports see System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable Settings on page 23 Accessing the System Console Through an Alphanumeric Terminal Use this procedure when you access the server system consol...

Page 32: ...out how to configure the terminal You can issue system commands and view system messages using the alphanumeric terminal Continue with your installation or diagnostic procedure as needed When you are...

Page 33: ...e also called the system controller prompt see FIGURE 1 5 FIGURE 1 5 Switching between the System Console and the System Controller Prompt If the system console is configured to use the virtual consol...

Page 34: ...r Return key might not be effective In that case it might be necessary to issue the escape sequence is Hash Period to return to ALOM CMT To reach the system console from the system controller prompt T...

Page 35: ...y time you access the system controller For more information about navigating between the system console and ALOM CMT the system controller prompt see the following Getting to the ok Prompt on page 21...

Page 36: ...work resources Occasionally you might operate the system at run level 1 which is a single user administrative state However the lowest operational state is run level 0 At this state it is safe to turn...

Page 37: ...1 A Stop A keys or Break key Manual system reset A discussion of each method follows For step by step instructions see Getting to the ok Prompt on page 21 Note As a rule before suspending the operatin...

Page 38: ...er press the Break key Caution After forcing the system into OpenBoot firmware control be aware that issuing certain OpenBoot commands like probe scsi probe scsi all or probe ide might hang the system...

Page 39: ...ed Although the go command will resume execution in most circumstances in general each time you drop the system down to the ok prompt you should expect to have to reboot the system to get back to the...

Page 40: ...A keys or Break key From a Sun keyboard connected directly to the SPARC Enterprise T1000 server press the Stop and A keys simultaneously From an alphanumeric terminal configured to access the system c...

Page 41: ...andard serial connection If you want to connect a conventional serial device such as a printer to the system you must connect it to TTYA not the serial management port It is important to note that the...

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Page 43: ...ections ALOM CMT and The System Controller on page 25 Automatic System Recovery on page 30 Unconfiguring and Reconfiguring Devices on page 35 Multipathing Software on page 37 Note This chapter does no...

Page 44: ...To The System Controller All environmental monitoring and control is handled by the system controller The system controller command prompt sc provides you with a way of interacting with the system con...

Page 45: ...d is the last 8 digits of the Chassis Serial Number The Chassis Serial Number can be found printed on the back of the server or in the printed system information sheet which shipped with your server Y...

Page 46: ...LEDs The behavior of LEDs on your server conform the American National Standards Institute ANSI Status Indicator Standard SIS These standard LED behaviors are described in TABLE 2 1 TABLE 2 1 LED Beh...

Page 47: ...o adverse consequences for example the OK to Remove LED Yellow Amber Off Steady State Steady On Steady State This indicator signals the existence of a fault condition Service is required for example t...

Page 48: ...ystem controller command prompt type To turn off the Locator LED from the system controller command prompt type To display the state of the Locator LED from the system controller command prompt type N...

Page 49: ...ill automatically boot the operating system after each reset The default setting for Sun platforms is true Normally if a system fails power on diagnostics auto boot is ignored and the system does not...

Page 50: ...l and result in both logical banks being unconfigured Note If POST or OpenBoot Diagnostics detect a nonfatal error associated with the normal boot device the OpenBoot firmware automatically unconfigur...

Page 51: ...e information see Unconfiguring and Reconfiguring Devices on page 35 To Reconfigure a Device Manually on page 36 Obtaining Automatic System Recovery Information on page 35 Enabling and Disabling Autom...

Page 52: ...and boots automatically when the OpenBoot configuration variable auto boot is set to true its default value Note To store parameter changes you can also power cycle the system using the front panel P...

Page 53: ...configured using the system firmware The showcomponent command also lists devices that have failed firmware diagnostics and have been automatically unconfigured by the system firmware For more informa...

Page 54: ...TABLE 2 5 Note The device identifiers are not case sensitive You can type them as uppercase or lowercase characters You can use the ALOM CMT enablecomponent command to reconfigure any device that you...

Page 55: ...re Multipathing software enables you to define and control redundant physical paths to I O devices such as storage devices and network interfaces If the active path to a device becomes unavailable the...

Page 56: ...interfaces from a single instance of the I O device For More Information on Multipathing Software For instructions on how to configure and administer Solaris IP Network Multipathing consult the IP Net...

Page 57: ...appropriate patches For the latest information on patches for the server see your server s firmware product notes for this release Patches are available for download from http www sun com sunsolve In...

Page 58: ...ported If this operation must be performed please contact your service provider RAID Technology RAID technology allows for the construction of a logical volume made up of several physical disks to pro...

Page 59: ...ashion with each sequential block being written to each member disk in turn Integrated Mirror Volumes RAID 1 Disk mirroring RAID 1 is a technique that uses data redundancy two complete copies of all d...

Page 60: ...rently than one created using volume management software Under a software volume each device has its own entry in the virtual device tree and read write operations are performed to both virtual device...

Page 61: ...ate boot medium must be employed and the volume created in that environment One alternate medium is a network installation image in single user mode refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide for info...

Page 62: ...ensure that the member disks are available and that there is not a volume already created See Physical Disk Slot Numbers Physical Device Names and Logical Device Names for Non RAID Disks on page 42 Th...

Page 63: ...t the volume also might be RESYNCING in the event that the data between the primary and secondary member disks in an IM are still synchronizing The RAID status might also be DEGRADED if a member disk...

Page 64: ...The logical device names might appear differently on your system depending on the number and type of add on disk controllers installed The preceding example indicates that the RAID mirror is still re...

Page 65: ...0 Specify disk enter its number 0 selecting c0t0d0 disk formatted FORMAT MENU format type AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES 0 Auto configure 19 SUN72G 20 other Specify disk type enter its number 19 0 c0t0d0 confi...

Page 66: ...or example 2 Type the boot net s command 3 Verify that the member disks are available and that there is not a volume already created The server s on board SAS controller can configure one RAID volume...

Page 67: ...Under RAID 0 disk striping there is no replication of data across drives The data is written to the RAID volume across all member disks in a round robin fashion If any disk is lost all data on the vo...

Page 68: ...0 0 Specify disk enter its number 0 selecting c0t0d0 disk formatted FORMAT MENU format type AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES 0 Auto configure 19 SUN72G 20 other Specify disk type enter its number 19 0 c0t0d0 co...

Page 69: ...rs Logical Device Names and Physical Device Names on page 43 2 Determine the name of the RAID volume In this example the RAID volume is c0t1d0 Note The logical device names might appear differently on...

Page 70: ...sure that you no longer need the IS volume or the data it contains For example 4 Confirm that you have deleted the RAID array For example For more information see the raidctl 1M man page raidctl d vol...

Page 71: ...3000 cyl 65533 alt 2 hd 16 sec 136 pci 7c0 pci 0 pci 8 scsi 2 sd 1 0 Specify disk enter its number 0 selecting c0t0d0 disk formatted FORMAT MENU disk select a disk type select define a disk type parti...

Page 72: ...disk using the label command format type AVAILABLE DRIVE TYPES 0 Auto configure 1 Quantum ProDrive 80S 2 Quantum ProDrive 105S 3 CDC Wren IV 94171 344 4 SUN0104 5 SUN0207 6 SUN0327 7 SUN0340 8 SUN0424...

Page 73: ...The volume can now be used in the Solaris Operating System Note The logical device names might appear differently on your system depending on the number and type of add on disk controllers installed f...

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Page 75: ...ebug true false false If true include name fields for plug in device FCodes scsi initiator id 0 15 7 SCSI ID of the Serial Attached SCSI controller oem logo true false false If true use custom OEM log...

Page 76: ...boot Action following a boot command boot file variable name none File from which to boot if diag switch is false boot device variable name disk net Devices from which to boot if diag switch is false...

Page 77: ...work boot arguments protocol key value none Arguments to be used by the PROM for network booting Defaults to an empty string Use network boot arguments to specify the boot protocol RARP DHCP and a ran...

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Page 79: ...aining recovery information 35 B break sc command 20 Break key alphanumeric terminal 22 C Cisco L2511 terminal server connecting 9 command prompts explained 16 communicating with the system about 1 op...

Page 80: ...al device unconfiguration 35 manual system reset 20 22 multiple ALOM sessions 17 N network management port NET MGT activating 7 configuring IP address 8 O ok prompt about 18 accessing via ALOM break c...

Page 81: ...setsc sc command 8 showenv OpenBoot command 57 shownetwork sc command 8 shutdown Solaris command 19 22 Solaris commands fsck 20 init 19 22 raidctl 43 to 52 shutdown 19 22 tip 10 11 uadmin 19 uname 12...

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