Powering And Booting From An L2 System Controller - Silicon Graphics Altix 350 Quick Start Manual

Powering and Booting From an L2 System Controller

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Use the following steps to connect your Altix 350 system via serial cable to an optional L2
controller (see Figure 1-6):
1. Attach a serial cable to the lowest compute node in the system using the following:
• Serial DB9 Female to Female cable P/N 018-0691-001
• The settings for the L2 serial port are as follows:
Baud rate 38400
8 data bits
1 stop bit
No parity
RTS/CTS flow control (hardware flow control)
2. Attach the other end of the cable to a PC serial port with "cu" or other similar terminal
emulation program.
3. On the PC enter the following command.
cu -l ttyS0 -s 38400
This assumes the tty device on the PC is ttyS0.
There should be a "connected" response.
Hit return again and you should get a L2 prompt:
001-L2>
1. From the L2 prompt enter the command "cfg"
This should return a list of all the modules in the system.
001-L2>cfg
:0 - 001c01
:1 - 001c03
:5 - 001c05
001-L2>
2. If all the modules in your system are not seen, check the NUMAlink cabling, also insure that
the L1 is powered on all modules.
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