Information Centers / Oracle Hardware / Site Reference / Solaris Admin / Sticky posts / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published September 1, 2015 · Last modified September 19, 2019
Read – Sun Hardware Diagnosis at OBP level Read – Oracle Hardware Models ( 3D View) Read – Working with Solaris Server Consoles using LOM/ ILOM/ ALOM/ ELOM/ RSC Read – ILOM ( Integrated Lights out Manager) Command Line Read– System Controller Hung Issues Read– 7...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
When a system controller (SC) is hung, try a few steps before pressing the Reset button on the SC. Step 1 . Try to Telnet or directly connect to the serial port of the “hung” SC, TIP into the platform shell, and use the “reboot” command....
Oracle Hardware / Solaris Admin / Solaris How-to / SUN Hardware / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 1, 2014 · Last modified August 5, 2016
Traditionally, in Solaris computing world the word CPU refers to a Chip planted on the mother board. Starting from Solaris10, the term vCPU has been introduced to refer each computing entity, ( CPU Sockets, CPU Cores per Socket or Hardware Threads per a CPU Core)...
Solaris Booting / SUN Hardware
by Yogesh Raheja · Published September 11, 2012 · Last modified July 2, 2015
I came across one unique parameter which I would like to share on our gurkulindia, specially for small business organisations where we dont have seperate power backups for DC. Has anyone noticed while working on Solaris boxes if you will power down (init 5 or poweroff...
System Controller battery (BATTERY at SC/BAT/V_BAT has exceeded low warning) failure in T-series servers. Many a times you will get a hardware error in /var/adm/messages (or at ALOM/LOM prompt, console messages) for SC battery failure, In this post I will explain the battery replacement procedure along...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published June 29, 2012 · Last modified August 20, 2014
The X4000 Family implements the ILOM – Integrated Lights Out Manager. This is a combination of dedicated hardware and supporting software. The Sun Fire X64 family of servers implement a technology called ILOM – Integrated Lights Out Manager where available. This is a combination of dedicated hardware...
Solaris Admin / Solaris How-to / Solaris Troubleshooting / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published March 26, 2012 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Access Server’s OS Console from the LOM service Processor: Server Models : SunFire V100/V120/V1280/E2900 and Netra 1280/1290 You can use below command to navigate between Server OS console and LOM port: connecting to console from LOM prompt: sc/lom>console Returning to LOM from the Server console...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Performance Monitoring / Solaris Troubleshooting / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published February 17, 2012 · Last modified July 2, 2015
This post is to highlight some of the steps needed to diagnose if an issue is in fact a disk performance issue or not. And if it is, what data will be collected to help diagnose the issue. Please note that performance in general is not an...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Troubleshooting / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published February 14, 2012 · Last modified July 2, 2015
The hardware set up is very basic. A standard network cable with RJ45 connectors needs to be plugged into the port on the I/O panel labeled “NET MGT” with the other end connected to the network. Note: This interface is 10HDX so please ensure that the...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Best Practices / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published January 1, 2012 · Last modified August 5, 2016
It is considered a ‘Best Practice’ to configure a ‘loghost’s for each server and production domain. A ‘Loghost’ on a Solaris platform can permanently save messages that are logged in the System Controller’s NVRAM buffer. This will insure that they are not lost due to either a...
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