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 --- to go to the system console from LOM #. --- to go to LOM from the system console
ALOM
In order to login to the ALOM console :
Please login: admin Please Enter password: ******** sc> console
In case if there is a user already logged in you would get a message as shown below :
SC > console Console session already in use. [view mode] Enter #. to return to ALOM.
In that case you can use the -f switch to login forcefully. The other user will get disconnected if you do so.
SC > console -f Warning: User currently has write permission to this console and forcibly removing them will terminate any current write actions and all work will be lost. Would you like to continue? [y/n]y Enter #. to return to ALOM.
ILOM
To login into stand-alone server SP console
-> start /SP/console Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n) ? y Serial console started. To stop, type #.
To login into a Blade server we first need to start the cli mode for the blade ( In this case Blade 2 )
-> cd /CH/BL2/SP/cli /CH/BL2/SP/cli -> start Are you sure you want to start /CH/BL2/SP/cli (y/n)? y Password:
Start the SP console
-> start /SP/console Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n)? y Serial console started. To stop, type #.
ILOM web interface
We can view the system hardware info and poweron/poweroff the system from the Web interface. To login into the web interface use the same IP address which you use to connect the ILOM cli interface. Just put the ILOM IP address into the web browser and login with the user credentials you used to login into the ILOM cli interface.
In case of x86 servers we can take the the ILOM remote console (Note: this is only in case of x86 X-series servers):
ELOM
The connection method to SP console in ELOM is pretty much the same as ILOM ( The only difference you may find is the escape character ). To login into stand-alone server SP console
-> start /SP/console Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n) ? y Serial console started. To stop, type #.
To login into a Blade server we first need to start the cli mode for the blade ( In this case Blade 2 )
-> cd /CH/BL2/SP/cli /CH/BL2/SP/cli -> start Are you sure you want to start /CH/BL2/SP/cli (y/n)? y Password:
Start the SP console
-> start /SP/console Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n)? y Serial console started. To stop, type #.
RSC
To login into the console from RSC :
rsc> console Console session already in use.
If the console is busy, run either of the following commands to reset the console and clear any open sessions: From the rsc prompt:
rsc> resetrsc
From the OS:
/usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/rscadm resetrsc
Execute the following command from the OS level:
~.
This will return the console to the rsc> prompt If the Escape character ~. doesn’t work, we can check the escape character set.
# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/rscadm show escape_char escape_char="#."
We can also set the escape character as we want.
XSCF
In order to login into console from XSCF you must know in which domain you want to login into. To show all the domains on a server :
XSCF> showdomainstatus -a DID Domain Status 00 Running 01 Running 02 Running 03 -
To login into domain 1 :
XSCF> console -d 01
To return from a domain login :
#.
Most Commonly used LOM commands (Cheat Sheet)
Most Commonly used ILOM commands (Cheat Sheet)
Most commonly used XSCF commands (Cheat Sheet)
Most Commonly used RSC commands (Cheat sheet)