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Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager system controller (ALOM SC) - only for SPARC system

ALOM System Controller enables you to remotely manage and administer a server.

It comes preinstalled on the machine, so as soon you plug in power cable, it works. 

Yes, it uses server's standby power, which enables you to remotely power off and on server (very useful when someone schedule power outage in remote office and you want gracefully to bring server down and after outage power it on). 

ALOM monitors hardware in the server, like CPU, RAM, Power supply, etc, and much more like Voltage and status of alarms.

Of course, all this exercise assumes you configured ALOM's network parameters. Try to have dedicated management subnet for this. 

If you access ALOM and stay idle for 1 minute, it will switch to serial console. 

Or you can type console and reach serial console of remote system from your cube or home living room.

sc> console

To go back to ALOM type #. (pound and dot)



This can be changed (if you really want) from ALOM with 

sc> setsc sc_escapechars ## (for example)
hostname console login:

#.  ---> switch from console to ALOM

Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.5.4 (hostname)
Please login: admin
Please Enter password: **********
Cannot login to the ALOM? Try default password which is the last 8 digits of the chassis serial number. Username is admin. Okay, I don.t want to write much about this, since commands are intuitive and easy to understand (note: they may vary from different ALOM versions) So find about them by yourself and see what help offers you.
sc> help
Available commands
------------------
poweron [-c] {FRU}
poweroff [-y] [-f]
removefru [-y] {FRU}
reset [-y] [-x] [-c]
break [-y] [-c]
bootmode [normal|reset_nvram|diag|skip_diag|bootscript="string"]
console [-f]
consolehistory [-b lines|-e lines] [-g lines] [-v] [boot|run]
showlogs [-b lines|-e lines] [-g lines] [-v]
setlocator [on|off]
showlocator
showenvironment
showfru
showplatform [-v]
showsc [-v] [param]
shownetwork [-v]
setsc [param] [value]
setupsc
showdate
setdate [[mmdd]HHMM | mmddHHMM[cc]yy][.SS]
resetsc [-y]
flashupdate [-s IPaddr -f pathname] [-v]
setdefaults [-y] [-a]
useradd 
userdel [-y] 
usershow [username]
userpassword 
userperm  [c][u][a][r]
password
showusers [-g lines]
logout
help [command]
I guess one of most used commands will be:
sc> setsc set if_network true
sc> setsc netsc_dhcp false
sc> setsc netsc_ipaddr 192.168.etc.etc
sc> setsc netsc_ipnetmask 255.255.255.etc
sc> setsc netsc_ipgateway 192.168.etc.etc
sc> resetsc
Are you sure you want to reset the SC [y/n]?  y
sc> shownetwork
SC network configuration is:
IP Address: 192.168.etc.etc
Gateway address: 192.168.etc.etc
Netmask: 255.255.255.etc
Ethernet address: 00:14:4f:64:b2:6f
sc> showplatform
SUNW,Sun-Fire-v240
Domain Status
------ ------
hostname  OS Running
sc> showenvironment

=============== Environmental Status ===============
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
System Temperatures (Temperatures in Celsius):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sensor         Status    Temp LowHard LowSoft LowWarn HighWarn HighSoft HighHard
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MB.P0.T_CORE    OK         56     --      --      --      84       89       96
MB.P1.T_CORE    OK         53     --      --      --      84       89       96
MB.T_ENC        OK         23     -6      -3       5      40       48       51

--------------------------------------
Front Status Panel:
--------------------------------------
Keyswitch position: NORMAL

--------------------------------------------------------
System Indicator Status:
--------------------------------------------------------
MB.LOCATE            MB.SERVICE           MB.ACT
--------------------------------------------------------
OFF                  OFF                  ON

--------------------------------------------
System Disks:
--------------------------------------------
Disk   Status            Service  OK2RM
--------------------------------------------
HDD0   OK                OFF      OFF
HDD1   OK                OFF      OFF
HDD2   NOT PRESENT       OFF      OFF
HDD3   NOT PRESENT       OFF      OFF

----------------------------------------------------------
Fans (Speeds Revolution Per Minute):
----------------------------------------------------------
Sensor           Status           Speed   Warn    Low
----------------------------------------------------------
F0.RS            OK                6490     --   1000
F1.RS            OK                6750     --   1000
F2.RS            OK                6553     --   1000
MB.P0.F0.RS      OK               16071   2000   2000
MB.P0.F1.RS      OK               15697   2000   2000
MB.P1.F0.RS      OK               15697   2000   2000
MB.P1.F1.RS      OK               13235   2000   2000

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Voltage sensors (in Volts):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sensor         Status       Voltage LowSoft LowWarn HighWarn HighSoft
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MB.P0.V_CORE   OK             1.46      --    1.26    1.54       --
MB.P1.V_CORE   OK             1.47      --    1.26    1.54       --
MB.V_VTT       OK             1.24      --    1.17    1.43       --
MB.V_GBE_+2V5  OK             2.49      --    2.25    2.75       --
MB.V_GBE_CORE  OK             1.19      --    1.08    1.32       --
MB.V_VCCTM     OK             2.53      --    2.25    2.75       --
MB.V_+2V5      OK             2.49      --    2.34    2.86       --
MB.V_+1V5      OK             1.51      --    1.35    1.65       --
MB.BAT.V_BAT   OK             2.95      --    2.70      --       --

--------------------------------------------
Power Supply Indicators:
--------------------------------------------
Supply    Active  Service  OK-to-Remove
--------------------------------------------
PS0       ON      OFF      OFF
PS1       ON      OFF      OFF

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Power Supplies:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Supply  Status          Underspeed  Overtemp  Overvolt  Undervolt  Overcurrent
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PS0     OK              OFF         OFF       OFF       OFF        OFF
PS1     OK              OFF         OFF       OFF       OFF        OFF

----------------------
Current sensors:
----------------------
Sensor          Status
----------------------
MB.FF_SCSI       OK
sc> usershow
Username         Permissions      Password
admin            cuar             Assigned
sc> showfru
FRU_PROM at MB.SEEPROM
  Manufacturer Record
  Timestamp: THU NOV 23 02:06:23 UTC 2006
  Description: FRUID,INSTR,M'BD,2X1.5GHZ,CPU,RoHS
  Manufacture Location: Shunde,China
  Sun Part No: 3753467
  Sun Serial No: 1U0J7I
  Vendor JEDEC code: 3E5
  Initial HW Dash Level: 01
  Initial HW Rev Level: 50
  Shortname: MOTHERBOARD
  Etc .etc .etc
Prefer working from the OS? For some platforms, like SunFire V240 and V440, ALOM can be configured from OS level using scadm utility. Unfortunately this is not supported on SunFire T2000. Examples:
/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set if_network true

Enable Ethernet link integrity test: 

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set netsc_tpelinktest true

Enable backup of local user database (username, passwords, permissions) on system configuration card. 

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set sc_backupuserdata true

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set netsc_dhcp false

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set netsc_ipaddr 192.168.etc.etc

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set netsc_ipnetmask 255.255.255.etc

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm set netsc_ipgateway 192.168.etc.etc

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin/scadm resetrsc

/usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/sbin> ./scadm shownetwork
IP Address: 192.168.etc.etc
Gateway address: 192.168.etc.etc
Netmask: 255.255.255.etc
Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
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