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Sun Fire
T1000 Server
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Administration Guide
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
www.sun.com
Part No. 819-3249-12
January 2007, Revision A
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  • Page 1 Sun Fire T1000 Server ™ Administration Guide Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com Part No. 819-3249-12 January 2007, Revision A Submit comments about this document at: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback...
  • Page 2 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, Californie 95054, Etats-Unis. Tous droits réservés. Sun Microsystems, Inc. a les droits de propriété intellectuels relatants à la technologie qui est décrit dans ce document. En particulier, et sans la limitation, ces droits de propriété...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Preface xi Configuring the System Console 1 Communicating With the System 1 What the System Console Does 3 What the System Controller Console Does 3 Using the System Console 3 Default System Console Connection Through the Serial Management and Network Management Ports 4 Accessing the System Controller 6 Using the Serial Management Port 6...
  • Page 4 To View Environmental Information 27 Interpreting System LEDs 28 Controlling the Locator LED 30 Automatic System Recovery 31 AutoBoot Options 31 ▼ To enable an Automatic Degraded Boot 31 Error Handling Summary 32 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 5 Reset Scenarios 33 Automatic System Recovery User Commands 33 Enabling and Disabling Automatic System Recovery 34 ▼ To Enable Automatic System Recovery 34 ▼ To Disable Automatic System Recovery 35 Obtaining Automatic System Recovery Information 35 Unconfiguring and Reconfiguring Devices 36 ▼...
  • Page 6 Index 63 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 7 Figures Directing the System Console 4 FIGURE 1-1 Rear I/O Panel of the Chassis 5 FIGURE 1-2 Patch Panel Connection Between a Terminal Server and Your Server 9 FIGURE 1-3 TIP Connection Between a Server and Another Sun System 11 FIGURE 1-4 Switching between the System Console and the System Controller Prompt 15 FIGURE 1-5...
  • Page 8 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 9 Tables Ways of Communicating With the System 2 TABLE 1-1 Pin Crossovers for Connecting the Server to a Terminal Server 10 TABLE 1-2 Ways of Accessing the ok Prompt 22 TABLE 1-3 OpenBoot Configuration Variables That Affect the System Console 23 TABLE 1-4 LED Behavior and Meaning 28 TABLE 2-1...
  • Page 10 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 11: Preface

    Solaris™ Operating System (Solaris OS). How This Book Is Organized The Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide is divided into the following chapters: Chapter 1 describes the system console and how to access it.
  • Page 12 Solaris OS documentation, which is at: ■ http://docs.sun.com Shell Prompts Shell Prompt C shell machine-name% C shell superuser machine-name# Bourne shell and Korn shell Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser xii Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 13: Typographic Conventions

    To delete a file, type rm filename. * The settings on your browser might differ from these settings. Related Documentation Title Description Part Number Sun Fire T1000 Server Site Site planning information for the 819-3749 Planning Guide server Sun Fire T1000 Server Late-breaking information about the server.
  • Page 14 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 15: Sun Welcomes Your Comments

    Sun is interested in improving its documentation and welcomes your comments and suggestions. You can submit your comments by going to: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback Please include the title and part number of your document with your feedback: Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide, part number 819-3249-12 Preface...
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  • Page 17: Configuring The System Console

    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 your server, and helps you understand its relation to the system controller. Topics covered in this chapter include: “Communicating With the System”...

  • Page 18: Table 1-1 Ways Of Communicating With The System

    A TIP line attached to the serial management port (SER MGT). “Accessing the System Controller” on page 6 “Accessing the System Console Through a TIP Connection” on page 10 “Modifying the /etc/remote File” on page 12 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 19: What The System Console Does

    Ways of Communicating With the System (Continued) TABLE 1-1 Devices Available During After Further Information Installation Installation “System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable Settings” on page 23 An Ethernet line connected to the network management port (NET MGT). “Activating the Network Management Port”...

  • Page 20: Default System Console Connection Through The Serial Management And Network Management Ports

    DHCP and to allow connections using SSH. You can modify the network management port configuration after connecting to ALOM CMT through either the system controller’s serial or network management ports. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 21: Figure 1-2 Rear I/O Panel Of The Chassis

    Typically, you connect one of the following hardware devices to the serial management port: Terminal server ■ Alphanumeric terminal or similar device ■ TIP line connected to another computer ■ These constraints provide for secure access at the installation site. TTYA Serial Port PCI-E Slot...

  • Page 22: Accessing The System Controller

    1 stop bit ■ No handshaking ■ 2. Establish an system controller session. For instructions on how to use the system controller, see the the ALOM CMT guide for your server. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 23: Activating The Network Management Port

    Activating the Network Management Port The network management port is configured by default to retrieve network settings using DHCP and allow connections using SSH. You may need to modify these settings for your network. If you are unable to use DHCP and SSH on your network, you must connect to ALOM CMT through the system controller using the serial management port to reconfigure the network management port.
  • Page 24 To connect through the network management port, use the telnet or ssh (based on the value you provided in Step 4) commands to the IP address you specified in Step 3 of the preceding procedure. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 25: Accessing The System Console Through A Terminal Server

    If the pinouts for the server serial ports correspond with the pinouts for the RJ-45 ports on the terminal server, you have two connection options: Connect a serial interface breakout cable directly to the Sun Fire T1000 server. See ■...

  • Page 26: Accessing The System Console Through A Tip Connection

    Accessing the System Console Through a TIP Connection Use this procedure to access the server system console by connecting the serial management port (SER MGT) to the serial port of another Sun system ( FIGURE 1-4 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 27: To Access The System Console Through A Tip Connection

    TIP Connection Between a Server and Another Sun System FIGURE 1-4 ▼ To Access the System Console Through a TIP Connection 1. Connect the RJ-45 serial cable and, if required, the DB-9 or DB-25 adapter provided. The cable and adapter connect between another Sun system’s serial port (typically TTYB) and the serial management port on the rear panel of the server.

  • Page 28: Modifying The /Etc/Remote File

    :dv=/dev/term/b:br#9600:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D: Note – If you intend to use the remote system’s serial port A rather than serial port B, edit this entry by replacing /dev/term/b with /dev/term/a. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 29: Accessing The System Console Through An Alphanumeric Terminal

    If the number displayed by the uname -r command is less than 5.0: ■ Check the /etc/remote file and add the following entry, if it does not already exist. hardwire:\ :dv=/dev/ttyb:br#9600:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D: Note – If you intend to use the remote system’s serial port A rather than serial port B, edit this entry by replacing /dev/ttyb with /dev/ttya.
  • Page 30 Continue with your installation or diagnostic procedure, as needed. When you are finished, type the alphanumeric terminal’s escape sequence. For more information about connecting to and using the system controller, refer to the ALOM CMT guide for your server. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 31: Switching Between The System Controller Prompt And The System Console

    Switching Between the System Controller Prompt and the System Console The server features two management ports, labeled SER MGT and NET MGT, located on the server’s rear panel. If the system console is directed to the virtual- console device (its default configuration), these ports provide access to both the system console and the ALOM CMT command-line interface (also called the system controller prompt, see FIGURE 1-5...

  • Page 32: Alom Cmt And The Sc> Prompt

    The system controller runs independently of your server and regardless of system power state. When you connect your server to AC power, the system controller immediately starts up and begins monitoring the system. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 33: Access Through Multiple Controller Sessions

    Note – To view system controller boot messages, you must connect an alphanumeric terminal to the serial management port before connecting the AC power cords to the server. You can log in to the system controller at any time, regardless of system power state, as long as AC power is connected to the system and you have a way of interacting with the system.

  • Page 34: Openboot Ok Prompt

    When a serious hardware problem develops while the system is running, the ■ operating system transitions smoothly to run level 0. When you deliberately place the system under firmware control in order to ■ execute firmware-based commands. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 35: Methods To Reach The Ok Prompt

    It is the last of these scenarios which most often concerns you as an administrator, since there will be times when you need to reach the ok prompt. The section “Methods To Reach the ok Prompt” on page 19 lists several ways. For detailed instructions, see “Getting to the ok Prompt”...

  • Page 36: Alom Cmt Break Or Console Command

    Use this method only when nothing else works. Caution – Accessing the ok prompt suspends the Solaris OS. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 37: For More Information About Openboot Firmware

    When you access the ok prompt from a functioning server, you are suspending the Solaris OS and placing the system under firmware control. Any processes that were running under the operating system are also suspended, and the state of such processes might not be recoverable.

  • Page 38: To Get To The Ok Prompt

    (for example, the shutdown or init command) as described in Solaris system administration documentation. L1-A (Stop-A) keys or • From a Sun keyboard connected directly to the Sun Fire T1000 server, press the Stop and A keys simultaneously. Break key •...

  • Page 39: System Console Openboot Configuration Variable Settings

    System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable Settings The server’s system console is directed to the serial management and network management ports (SER MGT and NET MGT) by default. Certain OpenBoot configuration variables control from where system console input is taken and to where its output is directed. The table below shows how to set these variables in order to use the serial management and network management ports.
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  • Page 41: Managing Ras Features And System Firmware

    C H A P T E R Managing RAS Features and System Firmware This chapter describes how to manage reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features and system firmware, including Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) system controller, and automatic system recovery (ASR). In addition, this chapter describes how to unconfigure and reconfigure a device manually, and introduces multipathing software.

  • Page 42: Logging In To The System Controller

    “Activating the Network Management Port” on page 7 ■ Note – This procedure assumes that the system console is directed to use the serial management and network management ports (the default configuration). Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 43: To Log In To Alom Cmt

    ▼ To Log In To ALOM CMT 1. If you are logged in to the system console, type #. (Hash-Period) to get to the sc> prompt. Press the Hash key, followed by the Period key. Then press the Return key. 2.

  • Page 44: Interpreting System Leds

    Transitory activity or new activity represented by the color is taking place. Fast Blink Attention is required. Feedback Flash Activity is taking place commensurate with the flash rate (such as disk drive activity). Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 45 The LEDs have assigned meanings, described in TABLE 2-2 LED Behaviors With Assigned Meanings TABLE 2-2 Color Behavior Definition Description White Steady State Fast Blink 4 Hz repeating This indicator helps you to locate a particular sequence, equal enclosure, board, or subsystem (for example, the intervals On Locator LED).

  • Page 46: Controlling The Locator Led

    Note – You do not need user permissions to use the setlocator and showlocator commands Automatic System Recovery The system provides for automatic system recovery (ASR) from failures in memory modules or PCI cards. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 47: Autoboot Options

    Automatic system recovery functionality enables the system to resume operation after experiencing certain nonfatal hardware faults or failures. When ASR is enabled, the system’s firmware diagnostics automatically detect failed hardware components. An autoconfiguring capability designed into the system firmware enables the system to unconfigure failed components and to restore system operation.

  • Page 48: Error Handling Summary

    For more information about troubleshooting fatal errors, refer to the service manual for your server. Reset Scenarios Three ALOM CMT configuration variables, diag_mode, diag_level, and diag_trigger, control whether the system runs firmware diagnostics in response to system reset events. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 49: Automatic System Recovery User Commands

    The standard system reset protocol bypasses POST completely unless the virtual keyswitch or ALOM CMT variables are set as follows: Virtual Keyswitch Setting for Reset Scenario TABLE 2-3 Keyswitch Value virtual keyswitch diag ALOM CMT Variable Settings for Reset Scenario TABLE 2-4 Variable Value...

  • Page 50: To Enable Automatic System Recovery

    To Disable Automatic System Recovery 1. At the ok prompt, type: ok setenv auto-boot-on-error? false 2. To cause the parameter changes to take effect, type: ok reset-all The system permanently stores the parameter change. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 51: Unconfiguring And Reconfiguring Devices

    Note – To store parameter changes, you can also power cycle the system using the front panel Power button. After you disable the automatic system recovery (ASR) feature, it is not activated again until you re-enable it. Obtaining Automatic System Recovery Information Use the following procedure to retrieve information about the status of system components affected by automatic system recovery (ASR).

  • Page 52: To Unconfigure A Device Manually

    Note – The device identifiers are not case-sensitive. You can type them as uppercase or lowercase characters. You can use the ALOM CMT enablecomponent command to reconfigure any device that you previously unconfigured with the disablecomponent command. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 53: Displaying System Fault Information

    Displaying System Fault Information ALOM CMT software enables you to display current valid system faults. The showfaults command displays the fault ID, the faulted FRU device, and the fault message to standard output. The showfaults command also displays POST results. ▼...

  • Page 54: For More Information On Multipathing Software

    FRUs have been installed. ▼ To Store Information in Available FRU PROMs ● At the sc> prompt type: setfru –c data Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 55: Managing Disk Volumes

    C H A P T E R Managing Disk Volumes This document describes redundant array of independent disks (RAID) concepts, and how to configure and manage RAID disk volumes using the server’s on-board serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk controller. This chapter contains the following sections: “RAID Requirements”...

  • Page 56: Raid Technology

    Integrated stripe volumes provide for a logical unit (LUN) that is equal in capacity to the sum of all its member disks. For example, a two-disk IS volume configured on 72 GByte drives will have a 144 GByte capacity. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 57: Integrated Mirror Volumes (Raid 1)

    Graphical Representation of Disk Striping FIGURE 3-1 Caution – There is no data redundancy in an IS volume configuration. Thus, if a single disk fails, the entire volume fails, and all data is lost. If an IS volume is manually deleted, all data on the volume is lost. IS volumes are likely to provide better performance than IM volumes or single disks.

  • Page 58: Hardware Raid Operations

    These error messages typically refer to a failed hard drive by its physical device name (such as ) or by its logical /devices/pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/sd@1,0 device name (such as ). In addition, some applications might report a disk c0t0d0 slot number (0 or 1). Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 59: To Create A Hardware Mirrored Volume Of The Default Boot Device

    You can use to associate internal disk slot numbers with the logical and TABLE 3-1 physical device names for each hard drive. Disk Slot Numbers, Logical Device Names, and Physical Device Names TABLE 3-1 Disk Slot Number Logical Device Name Physical Device Name Slot 0 c0t0d0...
  • Page 60 The preceding example indicates that no RAID volume exists. In another example, a single IM volume has been enabled. It is fully synchronized and is online: # raidctl RAID Volume RAID RAID Disk Volume Type Status Disk Status ------------------------------------------------------ c0t0d0 c0t0d0 c0t1d0 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 61 4. Create the RAID 1 volume: # raidctl -c primary secondary The creation of the RAID volume is interactive, by default. For example: # raidctl -c c0t0d0 c0t1d0 Creating RAID volume c0t0d0 will destroy all data on member disks, proceed (yes/no)? yes Volume ’c0t0d0’...
  • Page 62 Under RAID 1 (disk mirroring), all data is duplicated on both drives. If a disk fails, see the service manual for your server for instructions. For more information about the raidctl utility, see the raidctl(1M) man page. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 63 6. Relabel the disk using the format utility. # format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424> /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/sd@0,0 Specify disk (enter its number): 0 selecting c0t0d0 [disk formatted] FORMAT MENU: format>...

  • Page 64: To Create A Hardware Striped Volume

    # raidctl No RAID volumes found. “Physical Disk Slot Numbers, Physical Device Names, and Logical Device Names for Non-RAID Disks” on page The preceding example indicates that no RAID volume exists. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 65 4. Create the RAID 0 volume. # raidctl -c –r 0 disk1 disk2 The creation of the RAID volume is interactive, by default. For example: # raidctl -c -r 0 c0t0d0 c0t1d0 Creating RAID volume c0t1d0 will destroy all data on member disks, proceed (yes/no)? yes Volume ’c0t0d0’...
  • Page 66 Specify disk (enter its number)[0]: 0 selecting c0t0d0 [disk formatted] format> quit Note – The logical device names might appear differently on your system, depending on the number and type of add-on disk controllers installed. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 67: To Delete A Hardware Raid Volume

    To Delete a Hardware RAID Volume ▼ 1. Verify which hard drive corresponds with which logical device name and physical device name. “Disk Slot Numbers, Logical Device Names, and Physical Device Names” on page 2. Determine the name of the RAID volume. # raidctl RAID Volume...
  • Page 68 # raidctl -f -d c0t0d0 Volume ’c0t0d0’ deleted. 4. Confirm that you have deleted the RAID array. # raidctl For example: # raidctl No RAID volumes found For more information, see the raidctl(1M) man page. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 69 5. To re-label all of the member disks of the volume using the format command, select the disk name that represents the RAID volume that you have configured. In this example, c0t0d0 is the logical name of the volume. # format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0.
  • Page 70 7. Use the partition command to partition, or slice, the volume according to your desired configuration. See the format(1M) man page for additional details. 8. Write the new label to the disk using the label command. format> label Ready to label disk, continue? yes Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 71 9. Verify that the new labels have been written by printing the disk list using the disk command. format> disk AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c0t0d0 <SUN72G cyl 14087 alt 2 hd 24 sec 424> /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/sd@0,0 1. c0t1d0 <LSILOGIC-LogicalVolume-3000 cyl 65533 alt 2 hd 16 sec 136>...
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  • Page 73: Openboot Configuration Variables

    A P P E N D I X OpenBoot Configuration Variables describes the OpenBoot firmware configuration variables stored in non- TABLE A-1 volatile memory on the system. The OpenBoot configuration variables are printed here in the order in which they appear when you issue the showenv command. OpenBoot Configuration Variables Stored on the System Configuration Card TABLE A-1 Variable...

  • Page 74: Table A-1 Openboot Configuration Variables Stored On The System Configuration Card

    Firmware security password if security-password none security-mode is not none (never displayed). Do not set this directly. variable-name Number of incorrect security password security-#badlogins none attempts. Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...

  • Page 75: A. Openboot Configuration Variables

    OpenBoot Configuration Variables Stored on the System Configuration Card (Continued) TABLE A-1 Variable Possible Values Default Value Description If true: diag-switch? true, false false • OpenBoot verbosity is set to maximum If false: • OpenBoot verbosity is set to minimum Command to execute following a system error-reset-recovery boot, sync,...
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  • Page 77 Index Symbols /etc/remote file, 11 Cisco L2511 terminal server, connecting, 9 modifying, 12 command prompts, explained, 16 communicating with the system about, 1 Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) options, table, 2 commands, See sc> prompt console (sc> command), 20 escape sequence (#.), 18 console configuration, connection alternatives logging in, 26 explained, 16...
  • Page 78 (sc> command), 20 probe-ide (OpenBoot command), 20 probe-scsi (OpenBoot command), 20 manual device reconfiguration, 37 probe-scsi-all (OpenBoot command), 20 manual device unconfiguration, 36 manual system reset, 20, 22 multiple ALOM sessions, 17 Sun Fire T1000 Server Administration Guide • January 2007...
  • Page 79 shutdown (Solaris command), 19, 22 Solaris commands RAID (redundant array of independent disks), xi, fsck, 20 init, 19, 22 RAID 0 (striping), 42 raidctl, 45 to 54 RAID 1 (mirroring), 43 shutdown, 19, 22 raidctl (Solaris command), 45 to 54 tip, 10, 12 reset uadmin, 19...
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