Configuring The System Console; Communicating With The System - Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise T2000 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 a SPARC Enterprise T2000 server, and helps you understand the
system console's relation to the system controller.
"Communicating With the System" on page 1
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"Accessing the System Controller" on page 7
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"Switching Between the System Controller and the System Console" on page 18
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"ALOM CMT sc> Prompt" on page 19
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"OpenBoot ok Prompt" on page 21
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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 service manual for your server.

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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