Sun Fire T1000 Server Installation Guide

This chapter includes instructions for booting the Sun Fire T1000 system and for enabling the system controller network management port.

The following topics are discussed:

• Powering On the System for the First Time
• Logging In To the ALOM-CMT System Controller
• Using the ALOM-CMT System Controller for Common Operations
• Booting the Solaris Operating System

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Powering On the System for the First Time

System Console

When you power on the system, the boot process begins under the control of the system console. The system console displays status and error messages generated by firmware-based tests during system startup.

For a more detailed discussion on configuring the system console and connecting terminals, refer to the Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide.

ALOM-CMT System Controller

After the system console finishes its low-level system diagnostics, the ALOM-CMT System Controller initializes and runs a higher level of diagnostics. When you access the ALOM-CMT System Controller using a device connected to the serial management port, you see the output of the ALOM-CMT diagnostics.

By default, the network management port is configured to automatically retrieve network configuration using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and to allow connections using Secure Shell (SSH).

Once the network management port (NET MGT) has been assigned an IP address, you can connect to the ALOM-CMT System Controller using Telnet or SSH.

Passwords

There is no default password when connecting to the ALOM-CMT System Controller for the first time using the serial management port. To set the admin password, see To Log In To the System Controller Using the Serial Management Port.

When connecting to the ALOM-CMT System Controller using the network management port for the first time, the default password is the last 8 digits of the chassis serial number. The serial number is located on the rear of the server. It is also printed on the system information sheet that shipped with the server.

1. Connect a terminal or a terminal emulator (PC or workstation) to the SC serial management port.

Configure the terminal or terminal emulator with these settings:

• 9600 baud
• 8 bits
• No parity
• 1 Stop bit
• No handshaking

2. Turn on the terminal or terminal emulator.

3. Connect the AC power cable to the Sun Fire T1000 server and watch the terminal for system messages.

FIGURE 3-1 AC Connector

After the system controller boots, the system controller login prompt is displayed on the serial console. The following example shows a partial output from the system controller boot sequence leading to the login prompt.

ALOM BOOTMON v1.2.0

ALOM Build Release: 000

Reset register: f0000000 EHRS ESRS LLRS SWRS

ALOM POST 1.0

Dual Port Memory Test, PASSED.

TTY External - Internal Loopback Test

TTY External - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

TTYC - Internal Loopback Test

TTYC - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

....................

ETHERNET CPU LOOPBACK TEST, PASSED

Full VxDiag Tests - PASSED

     Status summary  -  Status = 7FFF

        VxDiag    -          -  PASSED

        POST      -          -  PASSED

        LOOPBACK  -          -  PASSED

        I2C       -          -  PASSED

        EPROM     -          -  PASSED

        FRU PROM  -          -  PASSED

        ETHERNET  -          -  PASSED

        MAIN CRC  -          -  PASSED

        BOOT CRC  -          -  PASSED

        TTYD      -          -  PASSED

        TTYC      -          -  PASSED

        MEMORY    -          -  PASSED

        MPC885    -          -  PASSED

sc>

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Logging In To the ALOM-CMT System Controller

You can log in to the system controller through either the serial management port or the network management port.

After the system controller boots, you can access the ALOM-CMT command-line interface to configure and manage the system.

The sc prompt is displayed the first time the system controller is booted. The default configuration provides an ALOM-CMT user account called admin. There is no default password, so you must create a password using the system controller password command.

1. If this is the first time the system has been powered on, use the password command to set the admin password.

.........................

TTYD - - PASSED

TTYC - - PASSED

MEMORY - - PASSED

MPC885 - - PASSED

sc> password

password: Changing password for admin

Setting password for admin.

New password: new-password

Re-enter new password: new-password

sc>

After the admin password has been set, on subsequent reboots, the sc login prompt is displayed.

2. Enter admin for the login name followed by your password.

TTYD - - PASSED

TTYC - - PASSED

MEMORY - - PASSED

MPC885 - - PASSED

Please login: admin

Please Enter password: password

	(Press Return twice) 

sc>

The SC network management port is configured by default to retrieve network settings via DHCP and allow connections using SSH.

After the network management port (NET MGT) has been assigned an IP address by a DHCP server, you can connect to the ALOM-CMT System Controller using SSH.

1. Open a Telnet or SSH session and connect to the system controller by specifying its network address.

The following example shows a telnet session.

% telnet 129.xxx.xx.xx

Trying 129.xxx.xx.xx...

Connected to 129.xxx.xx.xx.

Escape character is '^]'.

Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

Use is subject to license terms.

Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.0.11 ()

Please login:

2. Login as admin using the password you previously set.

Please login: admin

Please Enter password: password

sc>

Use this procedure only if:

• If you are unable to use DHCP and SSH on your network.
• If you need to modify the SC network management port settings.

In this procedure you connect to the ALOM-CMT System Controller using the serial management port to manually reconfigure the network management port.

You set these network parameters according to the specific details of your network configuration:

• if_network - Specifies whether the SC is on the network or not
• netsc_ipaddr - IP address of the system controller
• netsc_ipgateway - IP address of the gateway for the subnet
• netsc_ipnetmask - Netmask for the system controller subnet

To configure these parameters, use the setsc command. The usage is:

sc> setsc parameter

1. Set the if_network parameter to true.

sc> setsc if_network true

2. Set the if_connection parameter to the connection type, either telnet or ssh.

sc> setsc if_connection value

where the value can be one of the following:

• none
• telnet
• ssh
• netsc_dhcp (The system controller obtains its network interface configuration through a DHCP server.)

See the ALOM-CMT v1.2 guide for more information about SSH support in ALOM-CMT.

3. Choose one of these methods to configure the system controller using information from your network administrator:

• Use DHCP to retrieve the network settings. Go to Step 4.
• Configure a static IP configuration. Go to Step 5.

4. If you choose to use DHCP, set netsc_dhcp to true.

sc> setsc netsc_dhcp true

Go to Step 6.

5. If you choose to use a static IP configuration, set the parameters netsc_ipaddr, netsc_ipgateway, and netsc_ipnetmask, as follows.

a. Set the IP address for the system controller.

sc> setsc netsc_ipaddr service-processor-IPaddr

b. Set the IP address for the system controller gateway.

sc> setsc netsc_ipgateway gateway-IPaddr

c. Set the netmask for the system controller.

sc> setsc netsc_ipnetmask 255.255.255.0

This example uses 255.255.255.0 to set the netmask. Your network environment subnet might require a different netmask. Use a netmask number most appropriate to your environment.

6. Use the showsc command to verify that the parameters were set correctly.

sc> showsc

Advanced Lights Out Manager CMT v1.2

parameter                value

---------                -----

if_network               true

if_connection            ssh

if_emailalerts           false

netsc_dhcp               true

netsc_ipaddr             xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

netsc_ipnetmask          255.255.255.0

netsc_ipgateway          0.0.0.0

mgt_mailhost

mgt_mailalert

sc_customerinfo

sc_escapechars           #.

sc_powerondelay          false

sc_powerstatememory      false

sc_clipasswdecho         true

sc_cliprompt             sc

sc_clitimeout            0

sc_clieventlevel         2

sc_backupuserdata        true

diag_trigger             power-on-reset error-reset

diag_verbosity           normal

diag_level               max

diag_mode                normal

sys_autorunonerror       false

ser_baudrate             9600

ser_parity               none

ser_stopbits             1

ser_data                 8

netsc_enetaddr           xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

sys_enetaddr             yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy

Issue the resetsc command.

You are prompted to confirm that you want to reset the system controller. Type y when prompted.

sc> resetsc

Are you sure you want to reset the SC [y/n]? y

User Requested SC Shutdown

The system controller resets, runs diagnostics, and returns to the login prompt.

ALOM POST 1.0

Dual Port Memory Test, PASSED.

TTY External - Internal Loopback Test

          TTY External - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

TTYC - Internal Loopback Test

          TTYC - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

TTYD - Internal Loopback Test

          TTYD - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED.

....................

Full VxDiag Tests - PASSED

    Status summary  -  Status = 7FFF

       VxDiag    -          -  PASSED

       POST      -          -  PASSED

       LOOPBACK  -          -  PASSED

       I2C       -          -  PASSED

       EPROM     -          -  PASSED

       FRU PROM  -          -  PASSED

       ETHERNET  -          -  PASSED

       MAIN CRC  -          -  PASSED

       BOOT CRC  -          -  PASSED

       TTYD      -          -  PASSED

       TTYC      -          -  PASSED

       MEMORY    -          -  PASSED

       MPC885    -          -  PASSED

Please login:

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Using the ALOM-CMT System Controller for Common Operations

Powering on the system requires you to use the poweron command at the SC console.

To initiate the power-on sequence, issue the poweron command.

You see an sc> alert message on the system console. This indicates that the system has reset.

sc> poweron

SC Alert: Host System has Reset

sc>

Output from POST, OpenBoot, and the Solaris OS is displayed in the system console using the console command on the system controller.

Execute the console command, and use the -f option to force the console to be attached to your session.

Multiple users can be connected to the console, but only one can be attached.

sc> console -f

#. (Enter #. to return to ALOM)

Example of a Normal System Initialization

After you issue the poweron command, the CPU and memory controllers initialize and eventually OpenBoot initializes. After a number of system messages, the ok prompt appears.

The example output below is a small section of the complete output.

et5-sc> poweron -c

Enter #. to return to ALOM

SC Alert: Host System has Reset

0:0>

0:0>@(#) ERIE Integrated POST 4.x.0.build_12-erie 2005/06/14 12:19 

       /export/common-source/firmware_re/ontario-fireball_fio/build_12/erie-build_12/post/Niagara/erie/integrated  (firmware_re)  

0:0>Copyright © 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved

  SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL.

  Use is subject to license terms.

0:0>VBSC selecting POST MAX Testing.

0:0>VBSC enabling L2 Cache.

0:0>VBSC enabling Full Memory Scrub.

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Find dropin, Copying Done, Size 0000.0000.0000.1110 

Find dropin, (copied), Decompressing Done, Size 0000.0000.0006.06e0 ^Qcpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu cpu vpci mem32base, mem64base, cfgbase: e800000000 e000000000 e900000000 

pci /pci@780: Device 0 pci pci 

/pci@780/pci@0: Device 0 Nothing there

/pci@780/pci@0: Device 1 pci pci 

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/pci@7c0/pci@0: Device a Nothing there

/pci@7c0/pci@0: Device b Nothing there

/pci@7c0/pci@0: Device c Nothing there

/pci@7c0/pci@0: Device d Nothing there

/pci@7c0/pci@0: Device e Nothing there

/pci@7c0/pci@0: Device f Nothing there

Probing I/O buses

Sun Fire T1000, No Keyboard

Copyright 1998-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.

OpenBoot FW build_11***PROTOTYPE_BUILD***, 16376 MB memory installed, Serial #51454515.

[firmware obp4.x #0]

Ethernet address 0:3:ba:ce:a1:3d, Host ID: 83112233.

{0} ok

To understand the various devices and their path names as represented in the OpenBoot device tree, refer to TABLE 3-1. The table identifies each of the devices, their full path name, and their location or NAC name used to identify their physical location.

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Booting the Solaris Operating System

The Solaris OS is preinstalled on the disk drive (for Sun Fire T1000 configurations that include a hard drive). The Solaris OS is not configured. If you boot the system from this drive, you will be prompted to configure the Solaris OS for your environment.

Type the boot command at the ok prompt.

You must append a target to the disk path. For example, the target can be disk0 or a device or network path.

In the following example, the system is booted from disk 0 (zero).

ok boot disk0 

Boot device: /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/disk@0,0

File and args:

Notice: Unimplemented procedure 'encode-unit' in /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0/LSILogic,sas@4

Loading ufs-file-system package 1.4 04 Aug 1995 13:02:54.

FCode UFS Reader 1.12 00/07/17 15:48:16.

Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ontario/ufsboot

Loading: /platform/sun4v/ufsboot

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Hostname: wgs94-181

The system is coming up. Please wait.

NIS domain name is Ecd.East.Sun.COM

starting rpc services: rpcbind keyserv ypbind done.

Setting netmask of lo0 to 255.0.0.0

Setting netmask of bge0 to 255.255.255.0

Setting default IPv4 interface for multicast: add net 224.0/4: gateway wgs94-181

syslog service starting.

volume management starting.

Creating new rsa public/private host key pair

Creating new dsa public/private host key pair

The system is ready.

wgs94-181 console login:

If it is necessary to reset the system, use the uadmin command.

# uadmin 2 1

If a simple reset does not clear a system problem, you can power the system off and on with this procedure.

1. Halt the Solaris OS.

At the Solaris OS prompt, issue the uadmin command to halt the Solaris OS and to return to the ok prompt.

# uadmin 2 0

WARNING: proc_exit: init exited

syncing file systems... done

Program terminated

ok

2. Switch from the system console prompt to the SC console prompt by typing the #. escape sequence.

ok #.

sc>

3. Using the SC console, type the poweroff command.

sc> poweroff -fy

SC Alert: SC Request to Power Off Host Immediately.

4. Type the poweron command.

sc> poweron

sc> SC Alert: Host System has Reset

5. Reconnect to the system console using the console command.

sc> console -f

Enter #. to return to ALOM.

The systems displays various messages, followed by the ok prompt.

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