Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto V490 del fabbricante Sun Microsystems
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Contents iii Contents Preface xxv Part I Installation 1. Sun Fire V490 Server Installation 1 About the Parts Shipped to You 1 How to Install the Sun Fire V490 Server 2 Part II Background 2.
Contents iv Automatic System Recovery 21 MPxIO 21 Sun Remote System Control Softwar e 22 Hardwar e W atchdog Mechanism and XIR 23 Dual-Loop Enabled FC-AL Subsystem 23 Support for RAID Storage Configurations 24 Error Corr ection and Parity Checking 24 3.
Contents v Configuration Rules 43 About the HSSDC FC-AL Port 43 About the FC-AL Host Adapters 44 Configuration Rules 44 About the Internal Disk Drives 44 Configuration Rule 45 About the Serial Port 45 About the USB Ports 46 4.
Contents vi About Manually Configuring Devices 59 Deconfiguring Devices vs. Slots 59 Deconfiguring All System Pr ocessors 59 Device Paths 60 Reference for Device Identifiers 61 5.
Contents vii About Monitoring the System 101 Monitoring the System Using Remote System Control Softwar e 102 Monitoring the System Using Sun Management Center 103 About Exercising the System 105 Exerc.
Contents viii 8. Conf iguring Network Interfaces and the Boot Device 143 How to Configure the Primary Network Interface 144 How to Configure Additional Network Interfaces 146 How to Select the Boot Device 149 9.
Contents ix 1 1. Monitoring the System 185 How to Monitor the System Using Sun Management Center Software 186 How to Monitor the System Using the System Controller and RSC Software 190 How to Use Solaris System Information Commands 197 How to Use OpenBoot Information Commands 198 12.
Contents x B. System Specif ications 217 Physical Specifications 217 Electrical Specifications 218 Environmental Specif ications 219 Agency Compliance Specifications 220 Clearance and Service Access Specifications 220 C.
Figures xi Figur es FIGURE 2-1 Sun Fire V490 Server Front Panel Features 12 FIGURE 2-2 Four-Position System Control Switch in Locked Position 15 FIGURE 2-3 Sun Fire V490 Server Back Panel Features 17 .
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Tables xiii T ables T ABLE 2-1 System LEDs 14 T ABLE 2-2 Fan Tray LEDs 14 T ABLE 2-3 Hard Disk Drive LEDs 14 T ABLE 2-4 System Control Switch Settings 16 T ABLE 2-5 Ethernet LEDs 17 T ABLE 2-6 Power S.
Tables xiv T ABLE 6-8 What Sun Management Center Software Monitors 103 T ABLE 6-9 FRU Coverage of System Exercising Tools 106 T ABLE 6-10 OpenBoot Diagnostics Menu Tests 109 T ABLE 6-11 OpenBoot Diagn.
xv Declaration of Conformity EMC European Union This equipment complies with the following requir ements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC: Safety: This equipment complies with the following requir emen.
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xvii Regulatory Compliance Statements Y our Sun product is marked to indicate its compliance class: • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — USA • Industry Canada Equipment Standard for Digit.
xviii Sun Fire V490 Ser ver Administration Guide • August 2004 ICES-003 Class A Notice - A vis NMB-003, Classe A This Class A digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil numérique de la classe A est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.
Regulatory Compliance Statements xix BSMI Class A Notice The following statement is applicable to products shipped to T aiwan and marked as Class A on the product compliance label.
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xxi Pr eface The Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide is intended to be used by experienced system administrators. It includes general descriptive information about the Sun Fire™ V490 server and detailed instructions for installing, configuring, and administering the server and for diagnosing problems with the server .
xxii Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Each part of the book is divided into chapters. Part One Chapter 1 describes and provides instructions for Sun Fir e V490 server installation.
Preface xxiii Using UNIX Commands This document might not contain information on basic UNIX ® commands and procedur es such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.
xxiv Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Shell Pr ompts Related Documentation Shell Prompt C shell machine-name % C shell superuser machine-name # Bourne shell and Korn shell $ Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser # Application Title Part Number / Location Site Planning Site Planning Guide for Entry-Level Servers, V ersion 1.
Preface xxv Accessing Sun Documentation Y ou can view , print, or purchase a br oad selection of Sun documentation, including localized versions, at: http://www.sun.com/documentation Thir d-Party W eb Sites Sun is not responsible for the availability of third-party web sites mentioned in this document.
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PART I Installation This one-chapter part of the Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide provides instructions for installing your server . For illustrated background information about the hardwar e and software components of the Sun Fire V490 server , see the chapters in Part T wo – Background.
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1 CHAPTER 1 Sun Fir e V490 Server Installation This chapter provides both an overview of, and instructions for , the hardwar e and software tasks you need to accomplish to get the Sun Fire™ V490 server up and running.
2 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Unpacking instructions are printed on the outside of the shipping carton. How to Install the Sun Fir e V490 Server Each step in this procedure r efers you to a particular document or to a section of this guide for instructions.
Chapter 1 Sun Fire V490 Ser ver Installation 3 Y ou need to provide specif ic networking information about the server when you install the Solaris™ Operating System (Solaris OS). For background information about network support, see “About the Network Interfaces” on page 47.
4 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – T o set up a serial connection using a Sun workstation or an ASCII terminal, insert the RJ-45 serial cable into the DB-25 adapter (Sun part number 530-2889-03) supplied in the ship kit.
Chapter 1 Sun Fire V490 Ser ver Installation 5 6. T urn on power to your server . See “How to Power On the System” on page 122. For information about the LED status indicators that appear during power-on, see “LED Status Indicators” on page 13.
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PART II Backgr ound The five chapters within this part of the Sun Fir e V490 Server Administration Guide explain and illustrate in detail the various components of the server ’s hardware, software, and f irmware. Use the chapters as a guided tour through the panels, cables, cards, switches, and so forth that make up your server .
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9 CHAPTER 2 System Overview This chapter introduces you to the Sun Fire V490 server and describes some of its features. The following information is covered in this chapter: ■ “About the Sun Fire .
10 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ 16 Mbytes of local static random access memory (SRAM) external cache memory per processor ■ Slots for up to 16 dual inline memory mod.
Chapter 2 System Overview 11 The system provides two on-board Ethernet host PCI adapters, which support several modes of operations at 10, 100, and 1000 megabits per second (Mbps). Additional Ethernet interfaces or connections to other network types can be provided by installing the appr opriate PCI interface cards.
12 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 System reliability , availability , and serviceability (RAS) are enhanced by features that include hot-pluggable disk drives and redundant, hot-swappable power supplies.
Chapter 2 System Overview 13 gain access to the disk drives, power supplies, and Fan T ray 0. If the media door is locked and the power supply access panel is in place, you will not be able to gain access to the power supplies, disk drives, and Fan T ray 0—even if the PCI access panel is unlocked.
14 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Listed from left to right, the system LEDs operate as described in the following table. The following table describes the fan tray LEDs.
Chapter 2 System Overview 15 Power Button The system Power button is recessed to pr event accidentally turning the system on or off. The ability of the Power button to turn the system on or off is contr olled by the system control switch. See the section, “System Control Switch” on page 15.
16 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The following table describes the function of each system control switch setting. Locating Back Panel Featur es The following figur e shows the system features that you can access fr om the back panel.
Chapter 2 System Overview 17 FIGURE 2-3 Sun Fir e V490 Server Back Panel Features Main system LEDs—Locator , Fault, and Power/OK—are r epeated on the back panel.
18 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T ABLE 2-6 lists and describes the power supply LEDs on the system’s back panel. Also accessible from the back panel ar e: ■ Inlets for.
Chapter 2 System Overview 19 About Reliability , A vailability , and Serviceability Featur es Reliability , availability , and serviceability (RAS) are aspects of a system’s design that affect its ability to operate continuously and to minimize the time necessary to service the system.
20 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Power Supply Redundancy The system features two hot-swappable power supplies, either of which is capable of handling the system’s entire load.
Chapter 2 System Overview 21 The power subsystem is monitored in a similar fashion. Polling the power supply status registers periodically , the monitoring subsystem indicates the status of each supply’s DC outputs. If a power supply problem is detected, an error message is displayed on the system console and logged in the /var/adm/messages file.
22 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ Host-level multipathing (there is no multipathing support for boot devices) ■ Physical host controller interface (pHCI) support ■ S.
Chapter 2 System Overview 23 Har dwar e W atchdog Mechanism and XIR T o detect and respond to system hang conditions, the Sun Fir e V490 system features a hardwar e watchdog mechanism—a hardware timer that is continually reset as long as the operating system is running.
24 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Support for RAID Storage Conf igurations By attaching one or more external storage devices to the Sun Fire V490 server , you can use a software RAID application, such as Sun StorEdge™, to configur e system disk storage in a variety of different RAID levels.
25 CHAPTER 3 Har dware Conf iguration This chapter provides har dware conf iguration information for the Sun Fire V490 server . The following topics are cover ed in this chapter: ■ “About Hot-Plug.
26 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 About Hot-Pluggable and Hot- Swappable Components In a Sun Fire V490 system, the FC-AL disk drives are hot-pluggable components and the power supplies are hot-swappable . (No other component of the system is either hot-pluggable or hot-swappable.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 27 Disk Drives Sun Fire V490 internal disk drives ar e hot-pluggable. However , certain software preparations ar e requir ed prior to removing or installing a drive. T o perform Sun Fire V490 disk drive hot-plug operations, you use the Solaris luxadm utility .
28 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 VIS provides high levels of multimedia performance, including real-time video compression and decompr ession and two streams of MPEG-2 decompr ession at full broadcast quality with no additional hardwar e support.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 29 FIGURE 3-1 Memory Module Gr oups A0, A1, B0, B1 Y ou must physically remove a CPU/Memory board fr om the system before you can install or remove DIMMs.
30 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Memory Interleaving Y ou can maximize the system’s memory bandwidth by taking advantage of its memory interleaving capabilities. Sun Fire V490 systems support two-way , four-way , and eight-way memory interleaving.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 31 Conf iguration Rules ■ DIMMs must be added four-at-a-time within the same gr oup of DIMM slots; every fourth slot belongs to the same DIMM group.
32 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – PCI cards in a Sun Fir e V490 system are not hot-pluggable. FIGURE 3-2 shows the PCI card slots on the PCI riser board.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 33 Conf iguration Rules ■ Three slots (0, 1, 2) accept short or long PCI cards, while the other three (3, 4, 5) support only short cards; that is, car ds less than 7.5 inches (~19 cm) long. ■ 33-MHz slots accept 5V PCI cards; 66-MHz slots ar e keyed as 3.
34 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 FIGURE 3-3 Sun System Contr oller ( SC ) Card The SC card featur es serial and Ethernet interfaces that provide simultaneous access to the Sun Fire V490 server for multiple RSC software users.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 35 FIGURE 3-4 SC Car d Ports Both SC connection ports can be used simultaneously or individually disabled. Note – Y ou must install the Solaris OS and the Sun Remote System Control software prior to setting up an SC console.
36 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 About Har dware Jumpers Three jumpers ar e located on the Sun Fire V490 system’s PCI riser board. Note that jumpers are set at the factory to ensure best system performance. Be awar e that moving any jumper shunt from its default location can render the system unstable or unusable.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 37 FIGURE 3-6 Har dware Jumpers on PCI Riser Board The functions of the PCI riser board jumpers are shown in T ABLE 3-3 . Each jumper on the PCI riser board has two options, as described in the following list. ■ J1 102 – Labeled “CS” on the PCI riser board, this jumper is used to select the Boot PROM device.
38 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ J1 103 – Labeled “Hi-Lo” on the PCI riser board, this jumper is reserved for futur e use. ■ J1 104 – Labeled “WREN” on the PCI riser board, this jumper contr ols write permissions for the system Boot PROM.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 39 The power supplies provide 48-volt and 5-volt standby outputs to the system. The 48-volt output powers point-of-load DC/DC converters that provide 1.5V , 1.8V , 2.5V , 3.3V , 5V , and 12V to the system components. Output current is shared equally between both supplies via active current-sharing circuitry .
40 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Caution – Fans on a Sun Fire V490 system are not hot-pluggable. Do not attempt to access any internal components unless you are a qualified service technician.
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 41 ■ Fan speed in revolutions per minute (RPM) (monitor ed) ■ Fan Fault LEDs (controlled) Conf iguration Rule ■ The minimum system configuration requir es a complete set of two working fan trays—Fan T ray 0 for the CPUs and Fan T ray 1 for the FC-AL drives and PCI cards.
42 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 FC-AL devices employ a high-performance serial interface, which supports multiple standard pr otocols such as Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) and Asynchronous T ransfer Mode (A TM).
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 43 About the FC-AL Backplane All Sun Fire V490 servers include a single FC-AL backplane with connections for two internal hard disks, both of which are hot-pluggable. The FC-AL backplane accepts two, low-profile (1.0-inch, 2.
44 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 About the HSSDC FC-AL Port The Sun Fire V490 system back panel includes an FC-AL port with a high-speed serial data connector (HSSDC). Note – At this time, no Sun storage pr oducts are supported utilizing the HSSDC connector .
Chapter 3 Hardware Configuration 45 About the Internal Disk Drives The Sun Fire V490 system includes two internal, low-prof ile (1.0-inch, 2.54-cm) FC-AL disk drives, attached to a backplane. (The system also includes an external FC-AL port; see the section, “About the HSSDC FC-AL Port” on page 44.
46 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The port is accessible by connecting an RJ-45 serial cable to the back panel serial port connector . For your convenience, a serial port adapter (part number 530-2889-03) is included in your Sun Fire V490 server ship kit.
47 CHAPTER 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmwar e This chapter describes the networking options of the system and provides background information about the system’s firmwar e.
48 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T wo back panel ports with RJ-45 connectors provide access to the on-board Ethernet interfaces. Each interface is configured with a unique media access control (MAC) address. Each connector features two LEDs, as described in T ABLE 4-1 .
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 49 T o help maximize system availability , make sure that any redundant network interfaces reside on separate PCI buses, supported by separate PCI bridges. For additional details, see “About the PCI Cards and Buses” on page 31.
50 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What Y ou Should Know About Accessing the ok Pr ompt It is important to understand that when you access the ok prompt from a functioning Sun Fire V490 system, you are suspending the Solaris OS softwar e and placing the system under firmwar e control.
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 51 Gracefully halting the system prevents data loss, allows you to warn users beforehand, and causes minimal disruption. Y ou can usually perform a graceful halt, provided Solaris OS softwar e is running and the hardwar e has not experienced serious failure.
52 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 An online version of the manual is included with the Solaris Software Supplement CD that ships with Solaris software. It is also is available at the following web site under Solaris on Sun Hardwar e: http://docs.
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 53 Note – Using the Stop-A keyboard command to enter the OpenBoot envir onment during power-on or r eset will immediately disable the OpenBoot environmental monitor . If you want the OpenBoot PROM environmental monitor enabled, you must reenable it prior to rebooting the system.
54 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Y ou can obtain environmental status at any time, regar dless of whether OpenBoot environmental monitoring is enabled or disabled. The .env status command simply reports the curr ent environmental status information; it does not take action if anything is abnormal or out of range.
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 55 Stop-F Functionality The Stop-F functionality is not available in systems with USB keyboards. However , the RSC bootmode forth command provides similar functionality . For more information, see the Sun Remote System Control (RSC) 2.
56 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ FC-AL subsystem ■ Ethernet interface ■ USB interface ■ Serial interface In the event of such a hardwar e failure, f irmware-based diagnostic tests isolate the problem and mark the device (using the 1275 Client Interface, via the device tree) as either failed or disabled .
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 57 Err or Handling Summary Error handling during the power-on sequence falls into one of thr ee cases summarized in the following table. 1. A working alternate path to the boot disk is required. For more information, see “About Multipathing Software” on page 64.
58 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Reset Scenarios The system control switch position and three OpenBoot conf iguration variables, service-mode? , diag-switch? , and diag-trigger , control whether and how the system runs firmwar e diagnostics in response to system reset events.
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 59 Normal Mode and Service Mode Information Y ou will find a full description of normal and service modes, as well as detailed information about the Op.
60 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Device Paths When manually deconfiguring and r econfiguring devices, you might need to determine the full physical paths to those devices. Y ou can do this by typing: The show-devs command lists the system devices and displays the full path name of each device.
Chapter 4 Network Interfaces and System Firmware 61 Refer ence for Device Identifiers Refer to the following table when manually specifying which devices to deconfigur e and reconf igure.
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63 CHAPTER 5 System Administration Softwar e This chapter provides an introduction to system administration softwar e tools supported on the Sun Fire V490 system.
64 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The following table provides a summary of each tool with a pointer to additional information. About Multipathing Softwar e Multipathing software lets you def ine and control r edundant physical paths to I/O devices, such as storage devices and network interfaces.
Chapter 5 System Administration Software 65 ■ Multiplexed I/O (MPxIO) is a new architecture fully integrated within the Solaris OS (beginning with Solaris 8) that enables I/O devices to be accessed through multiple host controller interfaces from a single instance of the I/O device.
66 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ Performance analysis tools, which enable you to monitor I/O performance and isolate bottlenecks ■ A graphical user interface (GUI), w.
Chapter 5 System Administration Software 67 Disk Concatenation Disk concatenation is a method for increasing logical volume size beyond the capacity of one disk drive by creating one large volume fr om two or more smaller drives. This lets you create arbitrarily lar ge partitions.
68 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 System performance using RAID 0 will be better than using RAID 1 or 5, but the possibility of data loss is greater because there is no way to r etrieve or reconstruct data stored on a failed disk drive.
Chapter 5 System Administration Software 69 About Sun Cluster Softwar e Sun™ Cluster software lets you connect up to eight Sun servers in a cluster configuration. A cluster is a gr oup of nodes that are inter connected to work as a single, highly available and scalable system.
70 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 During initial installation of the Sun Fire V490 system and the Solaris OS software, you must use the built-in serial port ( ttya ) to access the system console. After installation, you can configure the system console to use different input and output devices.
Chapter 5 System Administration Software 71 Instructions for attaching and configuring har dware to access the system console are given in Chapter 7. The following subsections, “Default System Conso.
72 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – Power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics cannot display status and error messages to a local graphics terminal.
73 CHAPTER 6 Diagnostic T ools The Sun Fire V490 server and its accompanying software contain many tools and features that help you: ■ Isolate problems when ther e is a failure of a f ield-replaceab.
74 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The diagnostic tool spectrum also ranges from standalone software packages, to firmwar e-based power-on self-tests (POST), to hardware LEDs that tell you when the power supplies are operating.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 75 Why are ther e so many differ ent diagnostic tools? There ar e a number of reasons for the lack of a single all-in-one diagnostic test, starting with the complexity of the server systems. Consider the data bus built into every Sun Fire V490 server .
76 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 FIGURE 6-1 Simplif ied Schematic V iew of a Sun Fire V490 System Consider also that some diagnostics must function even when the system fails to start. Any diagnostic capable of isolating problems when the system fails to start up must be independent of the operating system.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 77 Another complicating factor is that differ ent installations have different diagnostic requir ements. Y ou may be administering a single computer or a whole data center full of equipment racks. Alternatively , your systems may be deployed remotely— perhaps in ar eas that are physically inaccessible.
78 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 It is important to understand that almost all of the firmware-based diagnostics can be disabled so as to minimize the amount of time it takes the server to start up. In the following discussion, assume that the system is configured to run its f irmware- based tests.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 79 FIGURE 6-2 Boot PROM and IDPROM The extent of these power-on self-tests, and whether they are performed at all, is controlled by conf iguration variables stored in a separate f irmware memory device called the IDPROM.
80 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What POST Diagnostics Do Each POST diagnostic is a low-level test designed to pinpoint faults in a specific hardwar e component. For example, individual memory tests called address bitwalk and data bitwalk ensure that binary 0 s and 1 s can be written on each address and data line.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 81 Here is an excerpt of POST output showing another error message. CODE EXAMPLE 6-1 POST Error Message Identifying FRUs An important feature of POST err or messages is the H/W under test line. (See the arrow in CODE EXAMPLE 6-1 .
82 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The dashed lines in FIGURE 6-3 repr esent boundaries between FRUs. Suppose a POST diagnostic is running in the processor in the left part of the diagram. This diagnostic attempts to initiate a built-in self-test in a PCI device located in the right side of the diagram.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 83 diag-out-console Redirects diagnostic and console messages to the system controller . Default is false . • true —Display diagnostic messages via the SC console. • false —Display diagnostic messages via the serial port ttya or a graphics terminal.
84 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 diag-trigger Specifies the class of r eset event that causes diagnostic tests to run. This variable can accept single keywords as well as combinations of the first thr ee keywords separated by spaces.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 85 Stage T wo: OpenBoot Diagnostics T ests Once POST diagnostics have finished running, POST r eports back to the OpenBoot firmwar e the status of each test it has run. Control then reverts back to the OpenBoot firmwar e code.
86 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 In addition, the OpenBoot Diagnostics tests use a special variable called test-args that enables you to customize how the tests operate. By default, test-args is set to contain an empty string.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 87 FIGURE 6-4 OpenBoot Diagnostics Interactive T est Menu Interactive OpenBoot Diagnostics Commands Y ou run individual OpenBoot Diagnostics tests from the obdiag> prompt by typing: where n r epresents the number associated with a particular menu item.
88 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – Knowing how to construct an appropriate har dware device path requir es precise knowledge of the hardwar e architecture of the Sun Fir e V490 system.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 89 CODE EXAMPLE 6-2 OpenBoot Diagnostics Error Message I 2 C Bus Device T ests The i2c@1,2e and i2c@1,30 OpenBoot Diagnostics tests examine and report on environmental monitoring and control devices connected to the Sun Fir e V490 server ’s Inter-IC (I 2 C) bus.
90 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Other OpenBoot Commands Beyond the formal firmwar e-based diagnostic tools, there are a few commands you can invoke from the ok pr ompt. These OpenBoot commands display information that can help you assess the condition of a Sun Fire V490 server .
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 91 The probe-scsi command communicates with all SCSI and FC-AL devices connected to on-board SCSI and FC-AL controllers. The probe-scsi-all command additionally accesses devices connected to any host adapters installed in PCI slots.
92 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 probe-ide Command The probe-ide command communicates with all Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) devices connected to the IDE bus. This is the internal system bus for media devices such as the DVD drive.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 93 Stage Thr ee: The Operating System If a system passes OpenBoot Diagnostics tests, it normally attempts to boot its multiuser operating system.
94 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 prtconf Command The prtconf command displays the Solaris device tree. This tr ee includes all the devices probed by OpenBoot f irmware, as well as additional devices, like individual disks, that only the operating system software “knows” about.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 95 The display format used by the prtdiag command can vary depending on what version of the Solaris OS is running on your system. Following is an excerpt of some of the output produced by prtdiag on a healthy Sun Fire V490 system r unning Solaris 8, Update 7.
96 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 In addition to that information, prtdiag with the verbose option ( -v ) also reports on front panel status, disk status, fan status, power supplies, har dware revisions, and system temperatures.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 97 The prtfru command can display this hierarchical list, as well as data contained in the serial electrically-erasable programmable read-only memory (SEEPROM) devices located on many FRUs. CODE EXAMPLE 6-12 shows an excerpt of a hierarchical list of FRUs generated by the prtfru command with the -l option.
98 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ Power distribution board ■ Power supplies ■ System controller car d psrinfo Command The psrinfo command displays the date and time each processor came online.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 99 When used with the -p option, this command displays installed patches. CODE EXAMPLE 6-16 shows a partial sample output from the showrev command with the -p option.
100 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 About Isolating Faults in the System Each of the tools available for fault isolation discloses faults in different f ield– replaceable units (FRUs). The row headings along the left of T ABLE 6-5 list the FRUs in a Sun Fire V490 system.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 101 In addition to the FRUs listed in T ABLE 6-5 , there are several minor r eplaceable system components—mostly cables—that cannot directly be isolated by any system diagnostic. For the most part, you determine when these components are faulty by eliminating other possibilities.
102 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Monitoring the System Using Remote System Contr ol Softwar e Sun Remote System Controller (RSC) software, working in conjunction with the system controller (SC) car d, enables you to monitor and control your server over a serial port or a network.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 103 For instructions on using RSC software to monitor a Sun Fire V490 system, see “How to Monitor the System Using the System Controller and RSC Software” on page 190.
104 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The server component maintains a large database of status information for a wide range of Sun platforms.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 105 Who Should Use Sun Management Center? Sun Management Center software is geared primarily towar d system administrators who have large data centers to monitor or other installations that have many computer platforms to monitor .
106 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Exer cising the System Using SunVTS Softwar e SunVTS software validation test suite performs system and subsystem stress testing.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 107 ■ Exclusive mode – SunVTS software exercises only the specif ic subsystems you choose. Selected tests are run one at a time. A few tests are only available in this mode, including: l1dcachetest , l2cachetest , l2sramtest , mpconstest , mptest , qlctest , ramtest , ssptest , and systest .
108 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 SunVTS Software and Security During SunVTS software installation, you must choose between Basic or Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism (SEAM) security .
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 109 Requirements for Using Har dware Diagnostic Suite Since it is a part of Sun Management Center, you can only run Hardware Diagnostic Suite if you have set up your data center to run Sun Management Center.
110 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T ABLE 6-1 1 describes the commands you can type from the obdiag> pr ompt. ide@6 T ests the on-board IDE contr oller and IDE bus subsystem that controls the DVD drive PCI riser board, DVD drive network@1 T ests the on-board Ethernet logic, running internal loopback tests.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 111 Refer ence for Decoding I 2 C Diagnostic T est Messages T ABLE 6-12 describes each I 2 C device in a Sun Fire V490 system, and helps you associate each I 2 C address with the pr oper FRU. For more information about I 2 C tests, see “I2C Bus Device T ests” on page 89.
112 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 fru@1,a0 processor 1, DIMM 0 Provides conf iguration information for processor 1 DIMMs fru@1,a2 processor 1, DIMM 1 fru@1,a4 processor 1, .
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 113 fru@4,aa PCI riser Provides PCI riser boar d configuration information fru@5,10 Centerplane Provides communication and control for I 2 C subsystem fru@5,14 RSC card Pro.
114 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Refer ence for T erms in Diagnostic Output The status and error messages displayed by POST diagnostics and OpenBoot Diagnostics tests occasionally include acronyms or abbreviations for hardwar e sub- components.
Chapter 6 Diagnostic T ools 115 NVRAM IDPROM IDPROM, located on PCI riser board OBP Refers to OpenBoot firmwar e N/A PDB Power Distribution Board Power distribution board PMC Power Management Controll.
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PART III Instructions The six chapters within this part of the Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide use illustrated instructions on how to set up various components within your system, configur e your system, and diagnose problems.
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119 CHAPTER 7 Conf iguring Console Access This chapter includes instructions on how to configure and access the system console from dif ferent physical devices.
120 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to A void Electr ostatic Discharge Qualified service technicians should use the following pr ocedure to prevent static damage whenever they access any of the internal components of the system.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 121 2. Use an antistatic mat or similar surface. When performing any installation or service procedure, place static-sensitive parts, such as boards, car ds, and disk drives, on an antistatic surface.
122 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What Next T o power on the system, complete this task: ■ “How to Power On the System” on page 122 How to Power On the System Befor e.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 123 4. Insert the system key into the system control switch and turn the system control switch to the Normal position. See “System Control Switch” on page 15 for information about each system control switch setting.
124 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 6. T urn the system control switch to the Locked position. This prevents anyone fr om accidentally powering off the system. 7. Remove the system key from the system control switch and keep it in a secure place.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 125 How to Power Of f the System Befor e Y ou Begin Applications running on the Solaris OS can be adversely affected by a poorly executed system shutdown. Make sure that you have gracefully shut down any applications before powering off the system.
126 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Caution – Be sure to turn the system contr ol switch to the Forced Of f position before handling any internal components. Otherwise, it is possible for an operator at a system controller (SC) console to restart the system while you ar e working inside it.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 127 If at all possible, back up system data before starting this procedur e. Also halt all applications and warn users of the impending loss of service. For information about the appropriate backup and shutdown pr ocedures, see Solaris system administration documentation.
128 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ Install the server in the rack, following instructions in the Sun Fire V490 Server Setup and Rackmounting Guide . What to Do 1. Locate the RJ-45 twisted-pair Ethernet (TPE) connector for the appropriate Ethernet interface—the top connector or the bottom connector .
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 129 How to Access the System Console via tip Connection Befor e Y ou Begin The following procedur e assumes you are connecting to the serial port ( ttya ) of the S.
130 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – There ar e many other OpenBoot configuration variables, and although these do not affect which har dware device is used as the system console, some of them affect what diagnostic tests the system runs and what messages the system console displays.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 131 How to Modify the /etc/remote File Y ou may need to perform this procedur e to access the system console via a tip connection from a Sun server running an older version of the Solaris OS software.
132 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 ■ If the number displayed by the uname -r command is less than 5.0: Check the /etc/remote file and add the entry shown in CODE EXAMPLE 7-2 ,i fi t does not already exist.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 133 2. T ype: 3. Look for the following output: This line indicates that the Sun Fire V490 server ’s serial port is configured for: ■ 9600 baud ■ 8 bits ■ No parity ■ 1 stop bit ■ No handshake protocol What Next For more information about serial port settings, see the eeprom man page.
134 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 For detailed information about system console options, see “About Communicating W ith the System” on page 69. What to Do 1. Attach one end of the serial cable to the alphanumeric terminal’ s serial port.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 135 Note – There ar e many other OpenBoot configuration variables, and although these do not affect which har dware device is used as the system console, some of them affect what diagnostic tests the system runs and what messages the system console displays.
136 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T o install a local graphics terminal, you must have: ■ A supported PCI-based graphics frame buffer card and softwar e driver ■ An 8-B.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 137 5. Connect the mouse USB cable to any USB port on the back panel. 6. Set OpenBoot conf iguration variables appropriately .
138 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – There ar e many other OpenBoot configuration variables, and although these do not affect which har dware device is used as the system console, some of them affect what diagnostic tests the system runs and what messages the system console displays.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 139 Befor e Y ou Begin Caution – Before you power on the system, make sure that the system doors and all panels are pr operly installed. T o issue software commands, you need to set up a system ASCII terminal, a local graphics terminal, or a tip connection to the Sun Fire V490 system.
140 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 a. W ait until the system has completed initializing memory . During initialization, you see the message: b. W atch carefully , as you will need to act quickly . Once the process is complete, the Initializing memory message is erased and the system displays a line similar to: c.
Chapter 7 Configuring Console Access 141 Refer ence for System Console OpenBoot V ariable Settings Certain OpenBoot configuration variables contr ol from wher e system console input is taken and to where its output is dir ected.
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143 CHAPTER 8 Conf iguring Network Interfaces and the Boot Device This chapter provides information and instructions that ar e requir ed to plan and to configur e the supported network interfaces.
144 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to Conf igure the Primary Network Interface Befor e Y ou Begin Y ou must perform this task: ■ Complete the installation steps in Chapter 1.
Chapter 8 Configuring Network Interfaces and the Boot De vice 145 4. Determine the unique Internet Protocol (IP) address of the network interface and make a note of it. Y ou need to furnish the address in a later step. An IP address must be assigned by the network administrator .
146 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – The Sun Fire V490 system conforms to the Ethernet 10/100BASE-T standard, which states that the Ethernet 10BASE-T link integrity test function should always be enabled on both the host system and the Ethernet hub.
Chapter 8 Configuring Network Interfaces and the Boot De vice 147 What to Do 1. Choose a network host name for each new interface. The host name must be unique within the network. It can consist only of alphanumeric characters and the dash ( - ). Do not use a dot in the host name.
148 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 5. Edit the /etc/hostname f ile(s) created in Step 4 to add the host name(s) determined in Step 1.
Chapter 8 Configuring Network Interfaces and the Boot De vice 149 What Next After completing this procedure, any new network interfaces ar e ready for operation.
150 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Specifically , you must set up a system console and power on the system. See: ■ “How to Set Up an Alphanumeric T erminal as the System.
Chapter 8 Configuring Network Interfaces and the Boot De vice 151 If you want to specify a network interface other than an on-board Ethernet interface as the default boot device, you can determine the full path name of each interface by typing: The show-devs command lists the system devices and displays the full path name of each PCI device.
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153 CHAPTER 9 Conf iguring System Firmware This chapter describes OpenBoot firmware commands and conf iguration variables available for configuring the following aspects of Sun Fire V490 system behavi.
154 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to Enable OpenBoot Envir onmental Monitoring Befor e Y ou Begin For background information about the OpenBoot environmental monitor , .
Chapter 9 Configuring System Fir mware 155 What to Do ● T o disable OpenBoot environmental monitoring, type env-off at the ok prompt: How to Obtain OpenBoot Envir onmental Status Information Befor e.
156 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to Enable the W atchdog Mechanism and Its Options Befor e Y ou Begin For background information about the hardwar e watchdog mechanism and related externally initiated reset (XIR) functionality , see: ■ “Hardwar e W atchdog Mechanism and XIR” on page 23 What to Do 1.
Chapter 9 Configuring System Fir mware 157 3. Restart the system to effect the changes. T ype: What Next If you choose to have the system generate an automated crash dump file, then, in the event the operating system hangs, that file appears in the /var/crash/ dir ectory , under a subdirectory named after your system.
158 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The system permanently stores the parameter changes and boots automatically if the OpenBoot variable auto-boot? is set to true (its default value).
Chapter 9 Configuring System Fir mware 159 What to Do 1. At the system ok prompt, type: In the .asr command output, any devices marked disabled have been manually deconfigur ed using the asr-disable command.
160 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What to Do 1. Establish a system controller session. For instructions, see the Sun Remote System Controller (RSC) User ’ s Guide , which is included on the Sun Fire V490 Documentation CD.
Chapter 9 Configuring System Fir mware 161 How to Restor e the Local System Console Perform this procedur e if your system is configured to use the system contr oller (SC) as the system console and you need to r edirect the system console to a local graphics terminal, alphanumeric terminal, or an established tip connection.
162 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What Next Y ou can now issue commands and view system messages on the local console. How to Deconf igure a Device Manually Befor e Y ou Be.
Chapter 9 Configuring System Fir mware 163 2. T o effect the changes immediately , type: Note – T o immediately effect the changes, you can also power cycle the system using the front panel Power bu.
164 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – T o reconf igure a processor , you must power cycle the system. The reset-all command will not suff ice to bring the processor back online.
Chapter 9 Configuring System Fir mware 165 3. Press the front panel Power button twice, with no more than a short, one-second delay in between presses.
166 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T o correct such pr oblems, you must either manually change individual OpenBoot configuration variables using the setenv command, or else type set-defaults to permanently restor e the default settings for all OpenBoot configuration variables.
167 CHAPTER 10 Isolating Failed Parts The most important use of diagnostic tools is to isolate a failed hardware component so that a qualified service technician can quickly r emove and replace it.
168 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – Many of the procedur es in this chapter assume that you are familiar with the OpenBoot firmwar e and that you know how to enter the OpenBoot environment. For background information, see “About the ok Pr ompt” on page 49.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 169 ■ As root, type : ■ At the SC command-line interface, type: ■ From the RSC software’ s main GUI screen, click the representation of the Locator LED. See the illustration under Step 5 in “How to Monitor the System Using the System Controller and RSC Softwar e.
170 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to Put the Server in Service Mode Befor e Y ou Begin In normal mode, firmwar e-based diagnostic tests can be configured (and even disabled) to expedite the server ’s startup process.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 171 What Next Should you want to restore the system to normal mode in or der to control the depth of diagnostic coverage, the tests run, and the verbosity of the output, see: ■ “How to Put the Server in Normal Mode” on page 171.
172 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What Next For detailed descriptions of service and normal modes, see: ■ OpenBoot PROM Enhancements for Diagnostic Operation This document is included on the Sun Fire V490 Documentation CD.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 173 What to Do 1. Check the system LEDs. There is a gr oup of three LEDs located near the top left corner of the front panel and duplicated on the back panel.
174 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 4. Check the disk drive LEDs. There ar e two sets of three LEDs, one for each disk drive. These are located behind the media door , just to the left of each disk drive. Their status can tell you the following.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 175 How to Isolate Faults Using POST Diagnostics This section explains how to run power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics to isolate faults in a Sun Fire V490 server . For background information about POST diagnostics and the boot process, see Chapter 6.
176 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 3. Start POST diagnostics. T ype: The system runs the POST diagnostics and displays status and error messages via either the local serial terminal ( ttya ) or the redirected (system contr oller) system console.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 177 How to Isolate Faults Using Interactive OpenBoot Diagnostics T ests Befor e Y ou Begin Because OpenBoot Diagnostics tests require access to some of the same har dware resour ces used by the operating system, they cannot be operated reliably after an operating system halt or Stop-A key sequence.
178 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 5. T ype the appropriate command and numbers for the tests you want to run. For example, to run all available OpenBoot Diagnostics tests, type: T o run a particular test, type: where # r epresents the number of the desired test.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 179 How to V iew Diagnostic T est Results After the Fact Summaries of the results from the most r ecent power-on self-test (POST) and OpenBoot Diagnostics tests are saved acr oss power cycles. Befor e Y ou Begin Y ou must set up a system console.
180 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to V iew and Set OpenBoot Conf iguration V ariables Switches and diagnostic configuration variables stored by the system f irmware determine how and when power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics and OpenBoot Diagnostics tests are performed.
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 181 ● T o set OpenBoot conf iguration variables that accept multiple keywords, separate keywords with a space: Note – The test-args variable operates differently fr om other OpenBoot configuration variables. It requir es a single argument consisting of a comma- separated list of keywords.
182 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 FIGURE 10-1 Choosing a T ool to Isolate Hardware Faults 4. Do you intend to run the tests r emotely? Both Sun Management Center and RSC software enable you to run tests from a remote computer .
Chapter 10 Isolating F ailed Parts 183 5. W ill the tool test the suspected source(s) of the pr oblem? Perhaps you alr eady have some idea of what the problem is. If so, you want to use a diagnostic tool capable of testing the suspected problem sources.
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185 CHAPTER 11 Monitoring the System When something goes wrong with the system, diagnostic tools can help you determine what caused the problem. Indeed, this is the principal use of most diagnostic tools. However , this approach is inher ently reactive.
186 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Note – Many of the procedur es in this chapter assume that you are familiar with the OpenBoot firmwar e and that you know how to enter the OpenBoot environment. For background information, see “About the ok Pr ompt” on page 49.
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 187 Note – Sun Management Center software provides both standalone and br owser- based console interfaces. This procedure assumes you ar e using the standalone Java technology-based console.
188 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 b. Select “Logical V iew: system” from the V iews pull-down menu. The logical view lets you browse a hierarchy of system components, arranged as a tree of nested folders.
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 189 7. Monitor the Sun Fire V490 system using Conf ig-Reader module data property tables. T o access this information: a. Click the Browser tab. b. Click the Hardware icon in the hierarchy view . c. Click the Conf ig-Reader icon in the hierarchy view .
190 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 What Next There is much mor e to Sun Management Center software than what is detailed in this manual.
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 191 What to Do 1. As root on the Sun Fire V490 server , run the RSC conf iguration script. T ype: The configuration script runs, pr ompting you to choose options and to provide information. 2. Follow the conf iguration script prompts.
192 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 f. Near the end of the script, you need to provide an RSC password: The RSC firmwar e on the Sun Fire V490 system is configured. Perform the following steps on the monitoring system. 3. From the monitoring Sun computer or PC, start the RSC GUI.
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 193 4. Reply to the prompts given at the login screen. The main screen of the GUI appears. 5. Note the main screen’ s features.
194 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 a. T urn the Sun Fire V490 server ’ s power off (or on). Click the Power button on the front panel r epresentation. A dialog box appears asking you to confirm the action. Pr oceeding will actually turn system power off (or on).
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 195 7. Check system temperatures and other environmental data. T o do this: a. Find the navigation panel at the left side of the RSC GUI. b. Click the Show Environmental Status item under Server Status and Control. The Environmental Status window appears.
196 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 c. Click the other Environmental Status window tabs to see additional data. 8. Access the Sun Fire V490 server ’ s system console from RSC software. T o do this: a. Find the navigation panel at the left side of the RSC GUI.
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 197 If you want to change RSC configuration, run the conf iguration script again as shown in Step 1 of this procedur e. For information about RSC configuration, user accounts, and alerts, see: ■ Sun Remote System Controller (RSC) User ’ s Guide This document is included on the Sun Fire V490 Documentation CD.
198 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to Use OpenBoot Information Commands This section explains how to run OpenBoot commands that display dif ferent kinds of system information about a Sun Fire V490 server .
Chapter 11 Monitoring the System 199 3. T ype the appropriate command at a console prompt. See T ABLE 1 1-2 . T ABLE 11-2 Using OpenBoot Information Commands Command to T ype What It Displays .
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201 CHAPTER 12 Exer cising the System Sometimes a server exhibits a problem that cannot be isolated definitively to a particular hardwar e or software component. In such cases, it may be useful to run a diagnostic utility that stresses the system by continuously running a comprehensive battery of tests.
202 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 How to Exer cise the System Using SunVTS Softwar e Befor e Y ou Begin The Solaris operating system must be running. Y ou also need to make sure that SunVTS validation test software is installed on your system.
Chapter 12 Exercising the System 203 What to Do 1. Log in as superuser to a system with a graphics display . The display system should be one with a frame buffer and monitor capable of displaying bitmapped graphics such as those produced by the SunVTS GUI.
204 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 5. Expand the test lists to see the individual tests. The interface’s test selection area lists tests in categories, such as “Network,” as shown below . T o expand a category , click the icon to the left of the category name.
Chapter 12 Exercising the System 205 6. ( Optional ) Select the tests you want to run. Certain tests are enabled by default, and you can choose to accept these. Alternatively , you can enable and disable individual tests or blocks of tests by clicking the checkbox next to the test name or test category name.
206 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 8. Start testing. Click the Start button, located at the top left of the SunVTS window , to begin running the tests you enabled. Status and error messages appear in the T est Messages area located acr oss the bottom of the window .
Chapter 12 Exercising the System 207 ■ “About Communicating W ith the System” on page 69 What to Do 1. Check for the presence of SunVTS packages. T ype: ■ If SunVTS software is loaded, information about the packages is displayed. ■ If SunVTS software is not loaded, you see an error message for each missing package.
208 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 SunVTS 5.1 software r equires additional packages that may not be installed with Solaris 8 software. T o find out, type the following: This tests for the presence of the following packages.
209 APPENDIX A Connector Pinouts This appendix gives you refer ence information about the system’s back panel ports and pin assignments. T opics covered in this appendix include: ■ “Serial Port .
210 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Serial Port Connector The serial port connector is an RJ-45 connector that can be accessed from the back panel.
Appendix A Connector Pinouts 211 USB Connector T wo Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors are located on the centerplane and can be accessed from the back panel.
212 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T wisted-Pair Ethernet Connector The twisted-pair Ethernet (TPE) connector is an RJ-45 connector located on the system centerplane and can be accessed from the back panel. The Ethernet interface operates at 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 1000 Mbps.
Appendix A Connector Pinouts 213 SC Ethernet Connector The System Controller (SC) Ethernet connector is an RJ-45 connector located on the SC card and can be accessed fr om the back panel.
214 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 SC Serial Connector The System Controller (SC) serial connector is an RJ-45 connector located on the SC card and can be accessed from the back panel.
Appendix A Connector Pinouts 215 FC-AL Port HSSDC Connector The Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop port high-speed serial data connector is located on the centerplane and can be accessed from the back panel.
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217 APPENDIX B System Specif ications This appendix provides the following specifications for the Sun Fir e V490 Server server: ■ “Physical Specifications” on page 217 ■ “Electrical Specific.
218 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Electrical Specif ications The following table provides the electrical specifications for the system.
Appendix B System Specifications 219 Envir onmental Specifications The operating and non-operating environmental specifications for the system ar e as follows.
220 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Agency Compliance Specif ications The system complies with the following specifications. Clearance and Service Access Specif ications Minimum clearances needed for servicing the system are as follows.
221 APPENDIX C Safety Pr ecautions Read this section before beginning any procedure. The following text provides safety precautions to follow when installing a Sun Microsystems product.
222 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Depending on the type of power switch your device has, one of the following symbols may be used: Modifications to Equipment Do not make mechanical or electrical modifications to the equipment.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 223 Power Cord Connection Caution – Sun products ar e designed to work with single-phase power systems having a grounded neutral conductor . T o reduce the risk of electric shock, do not plug Sun products into any other type of power system.
224 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 The following caution applies only to devices with a Standby power switch: Lithium Battery System Unit Access Panels You must remove the access panels of your Sun Fire V490 Server t o add cards or memory.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 225 Laser Compliance Notice Sun products that use laser technology comply with Class 1 laser requirements. CD-ROM Caution – Use of controls, adjustments, or the performance of procedur es other than those specified her ein may result in hazardous radiation exposure.
226 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Einhaltung sicherheitsbehördlicher Vorschriften Auf dieser Seite werden Sicherheitsrichtlinien beschrieben, die bei der Installation von Sun-Produkten zu beachten sind.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 227 Aufstellung von Sun-Geräten Einhaltung der SELV-Richtlinien Die Sicherung der I/O-Verbindungen entspricht den Anforderungen der SELV-Spezifikation.
228 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Die folgende Warnung gilt nur für Geräte mit Wartezustand-Netzschalter: Lithiumbatterie Gehäuseabdeckung Sie müssen die obere Abdeckung Ihres Sun-Systems entfernen, um interne Komponenten wie Karten, Speicherchips oder Massenspeicher hinzuzufügen.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 229 Einhaltung der Richtlinien für Laser Sun-Produkte, die mit Laser-Technologie arbeiten, entsprechen den Anforderungen der Laser Klasse 1. CD-ROM Conformité aux normes de sécurité Ce texte traite des mesures de sécurité qu’il convient de prendre pour l’installation d’un produit Sun Microsystems.
230 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Un des symboles suivants sera peut-être utilisé en fonction du type d'interrupteur de votre système: Modification du matériel Ne pas apporter de modification mécanique ou électrique au matériel.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 231 Connexion du cordon d’alimentation L'avertissement suivant s'applique uniquement aux systèmes équipés d'un interrupteur VEILLEUSE: Attention: – les produits Sun sont conçus pour fonctionner avec des alimentations monophasées munies d’un conducteur neutre mis à la terre.
232 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Batterie au lithium Couvercle Pour ajouter des cartes, de la mémoire, ou des unités de stockage internes, vous devrez démonter le couvercle de l’unité système Sun. Ne pas oublier de remettre ce couvercle en place avant de mettre le système sous tension.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 233 Normativas de seguridad El siguiente texto incluye las medidas de seguridad que se deben seguir cuando se instale algún producto de Sun Microsystems.
234 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Modificaciones en el equipo No realice modificaciones de tipo mecánico o eléctrico en el equipo. Sun Microsystems no se hace responsable del cumplimiento de las normativas de seguridad en los equipos Sun modificados.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 235 La siguiente advertencia se aplica solamente a equipos con un interruptor de encendido que tenga una posición "En espera": Batería de litio Tapa de la unidad del sistema Debe quitar la tapa del sistema cuando sea necesario añadir tarjetas, memoria o dispositivos de almacenamiento internos.
236 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 Aviso de cumplimiento con requisitos de láser Los productos Sun que utilizan la tecnología de láser cumplen con los requisitos de láser de Clase 1.
Appendix C Safety Precautions 237 GOST-R Certification Mark Nordic Lithium Battery Cautions Norge Sverige Danmark Suomi ADV ARSEL – Litiumbatteri — Eksplosjonsfare.V ed utskifting benyttes kun batteri som anbefalt av apparatfabrikanten. Brukt batteri returner es apparatleverandøren.
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239 Index A AC Present LED (power supply), 173 accounts RSC, 191 Activity LED disk drive, 174 Ethernet, 174 address bitwalk (POST diagnostic), 80 of I 2 C devices (table), 1 1 1 agency compliance spec.
240 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 redir ecting to SC, 161 removing SC as default, 161 console, system, 3 CPU displaying information about, 98 master, 78, 80 CPU/Memory boar.
Index 241 with SunVTS, 106, 202 externally initiated reset (XIR), 51, 127 described, 23 manual command, 23 F fan displaying speed of, 90 Fan T ray 0 isolating faults in cable, 101 Fan T ray 0 LED desc.
242 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 host adapter ( probe-scsi ), 91 hot spares, See disk configuration HP Openview , See third-party monitoring tools I I 2 C bus, 20 I 2 C de.
Index 243 M manual hardwar e reset, 127 manual system reset, 51 master CPU, 78, 80 memory interleaving, 30 mirroring, disk, 24, 66 monitor , attaching, 136 monitoring the system with RSC, 190 moving t.
244 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 pkgadd utility, 208 pkginfo command, 207, 208 POST, 74 controlling, 82 criteria for passing, 79 defined, 78 error messages, interpr eting,.
Index 245 shipping (what you should receive), 1 show-devs command, 60, 151 show-devs command (OpenBoot), 92 showrev command (Solaris), 98 shutdown, 125 shutdown command (Solaris), 50, 127 software r e.
246 Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004 T ivoli Enterprise Console, See third-party monitoring tools tree, device, 103 defined, 85 U uadmin command (Solaris), 50, 127 Universal S.
Un punto importante, dopo l’acquisto del dispositivo (o anche prima di acquisto) è quello di leggere il manuale. Dobbiamo farlo per diversi motivi semplici:
Se non hai ancora comprato il Sun Microsystems V490 è un buon momento per familiarizzare con i dati di base del prodotto. Prime consultare le pagine iniziali del manuale d’uso, che si trova al di sopra. Dovresti trovare lì i dati tecnici più importanti del Sun Microsystems V490 - in questo modo è possibile verificare se l’apparecchio soddisfa le tue esigenze. Esplorando le pagine segenti del manuali d’uso Sun Microsystems V490 imparerai tutte le caratteristiche del prodotto e le informazioni sul suo funzionamento. Le informazioni sul Sun Microsystems V490 ti aiuteranno sicuramente a prendere una decisione relativa all’acquisto.
In una situazione in cui hai già il Sun Microsystems V490, ma non hai ancora letto il manuale d’uso, dovresti farlo per le ragioni sopra descritte. Saprai quindi se hai correttamente usato le funzioni disponibili, e se hai commesso errori che possono ridurre la durata di vita del Sun Microsystems V490.
Tuttavia, uno dei ruoli più importanti per l’utente svolti dal manuale d’uso è quello di aiutare a risolvere i problemi con il Sun Microsystems V490. Quasi sempre, ci troverai Troubleshooting, cioè i guasti più frequenti e malfunzionamenti del dispositivo Sun Microsystems V490 insieme con le istruzioni su come risolverli. Anche se non si riesci a risolvere il problema, il manuale d’uso ti mostrerà il percorso di ulteriori procedimenti – il contatto con il centro servizio clienti o il servizio più vicino.
