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Sun Fire™ 6800/4810/4800/ 3800 Systems Product Notes Sun Microsystems, Inc. 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303-4900 USA 650 960-1300 Fax 650 969-9131 Part No.: 806-7217-10 March 2001, Revision A Send comments about this document to: docfeedback@sun.com...
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Card Ejection Lever Jams Fan Speed Message Firmware On Replacement Boards Sun Fire Cabinet Fan Tray Power Switches Documentation Issues Known Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 System Limitations OBP/POST/System Controller Limitations Veritas VxVM Limitations Sun Management Center Limitations General Supported/Unsupported Features Solaris 8 4/01 is the minimum version of the Solaris operating environment compatible with Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 systems.
375-0118-02 OPT cPCI Dual FC-AL HBA or below and above Supported Veritas Products The following Veritas System Software Products are supported on Sun Fire 6800/ 4810/4800/3800 systems. VxVM 3.1.1 VxFS 3.3.3ga_03 and VxFS 3.4 Denmark and Switzerland Caution Caution – To comply with Denmark and Switzerland national requirements...
Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Systems Service Manual (Appendix B-6) went to press. The correct way to populate the boards: The Sun Fire 6800 CPU/Memory boards are populated from right to left, beginning with SB5 on the right and ending with SB0 on the left.
CPU/Memory board. Each bank of memory requires a CPU. The CPU is the MMU (memory management unit). Each bank of memory occupies four slots. Table 1-10 of the Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Systems Platform Administration Manual (Chapter 1 page 17) incorrectly states that the Repeater boards in grid 0 are RP0, RP2 and in grid 1 RP1 and RP3.
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/N0/SB0/P3/B1/L3 enabled untest empty ********************* schostname:SC> Workaround: Replace or unpopulate the memory bank in the lowest numbered CPU board in the domain before booting the Solaris operating environment. Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 Systems Product Notes • March 2001...
System Controller Agent Thread Terminates With Out Of Memory Exception on fully loaded Sun Fire 6800 System (bugid 4415462) The platform view tables get populated up to the system controller and sometimes up to the cpu components before the system controller snmp agent hangs and an alarm sounds indicating the system controller snmp agent is not responding.
Center related information that is not specific to Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 systems. Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 System Add-ons If you are supporting a Sun Fire 6800/4810/4800/3800 system, note the following: Be sure to install the Jumbo patch as described in the Sun Management Center 3.0 Platform Update 1 Software Release Notes.
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Depending on the load on system controller, Sun Management Center platform agent load and the network traffic between the system controller and Sun Management Center platform agent there will be some delay (5 seconds to 60 seconds) for the data pertaining to the system controller to get refreshed in the Sun Management Center console.
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