Configuring The System Console; Communicating With The System - Sun Oracle Netra T5440 Administration Manual

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C H A P T E R

Configuring the System Console

This chapter explains what the system console is, describes the different ways of
configuring it on Oracle's Sun Netra T5440 server, and helps you understand the
relationship between the system console and the service processor. This chapter
contains the following sections:
"Communicating With the System" on page 1
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"Accessing the Service Processor" on page 7
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"Switching Between the Service Processor and the System Console" on page 18
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"ILOM -> Prompt" on page 20
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"OpenBoot ok Prompt" on page 22
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"System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable Settings" on page 26
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Note – For information about changing the hardware configuration of your server,
or about running diagnostics, see the Sun Netra T5440 Server Service Manual.

Communicating With the System

To install your system software or to diagnose problems, you need some way to
interact at a low level with the system. The system console is the facility for doing
this. You use the system console to view messages and issue commands. There can
be only one system console per computer.
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