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Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager
This chapter gives an overview of the Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM)
software. The chapter contains:
■ “New ALOM Features” on page 25
■ “Setting the admin Password” on page 26
ALOM enables you to monitor and control your server through a serial connection
(using the SER MGT port), or Ethernet connection (using the NET MGT port).
The ALOM serial port, labelled SER MGT, is for server management only. If you
need a general purpose serial port, use the serial port labeled SER TTYB.
If you use ALOM to reset the server and the diag-switch? is set to true, the
bootscript command is not executed when the server reboots. If you use
OpenBoot PROM to reset the server, bootscript executes correctly.
When you issue the showfru command from the ALOM command shell, the
command does not read the layout of the DIMMs.
When OpenBoot PROM reports DIMM errors to ALOM, it sends system console (SC)
alert messages with the incorrect memory slot position for the Sun Fire V215 and
V245 servers. However the memory errors are still valid.
New ALOM Features
This release of the Sun Fire V215 and V245 servers includes several new ALOM
features and enhancements. ALOM can now:
■ Support a virtual keyswitch that provides the functions formerly provided by the
front-panel keyswitch.
■ Use the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol for network communication.
■ Support for the SNMP protocol.
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