Archives for December 2013

The ALOM (advanced light-outs manager) command shell enables you to administer, diagnose, or control the host server. Below are some of the most commonly used ALOM commands. To check all the available commands : sc> help Available commands —————— poweron [-c] {FRU} poweroff [-y] [-f] removefru [-y] {FRU} reset [-y] [-x] [-c] break [-y] [-c] […]

LOM commands (V1280/E2900) The hardware models V1280/E2900 etc uses the Lights-out management to manage the hardware. LOM is a set of software tools on the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 servers. LOM is used to perform user maintenance and administrative activities. Network Related Commands Show the current network configuration lom> shownetwork -v To assign an IP address […]

Integrated Lights-out Manager (ILOM) helps to manage and troubleshoot the complete hardware of a server. With the help of ILOM we can remotely manage a server. We can power on and power off it remotely. Let us see some of the most commonly used commands in the ILOM shell. Login related commands -> start /SP/console […]

The eXtended System Control Facility Unit (XSCFU) is a service processor that operates and administrates both midrange servers. The XSCFU diagnoses and starts the entire server, configures domains, offers dynamic reconfiguration, as well as detects and notifies various failures. The XSCFU enables standard control and monitoring function through network. Using this function enables starts, settings, […]

Connecting console and logging out RSC> console RSC> logout Use “~.” to come out of the OS login, back to RSC. In case the escape character ~. doesn’t work check for the escape character from OS : # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/rscadm show escape_char escape_char=”#.” If the console is busy fire either of the command from RSC […]

Oracle has many hardware models in market. For every hardware family the method to access console differs slightly. Below is a list of hardware models and type of console each of them is using. The post also discusses methods to login into the console of different hardwares. LOM To connect to a LOM : sc/lom>console […]

By default the console of Sun Fire 280R, V480, V490, V880, V890 servers can not be accessed over network. You need to be physically present in datacenter to access the server console. Certain hardware related logs can not be logged without RSC (Remote system control). The server can also be managed remotely through RSC ( […]