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Obtaining a servers serial number using the ilom or ipmi

To obtain the ILOM serial number Type the following command: show /SYS product_serial_number The following is an example of the results of this command /SYS Properties: product_serial_number = 0723BBC006 This serial number should always match the serial number returned by service tags on the host; it should also match the serial number on the label …

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Recovering T1000 / T2000 Alom password

Recovering TX000 ALOM Passwords Procedure as below for reseting the T2000 ALOM password due to no scadm command available for the sun4v architecture in Solaris 10. Recovering TX000 ALOM Passwords For security reasons, this procedure is available only while accessing the system directly through the serial port. The procedure resets all ALOM NVRAM settings. To …

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Sun fire T5140-T5240 initial boot process

To start a Sun fire T5120/T5220/T5140/T5240/blades first login with login password Login: root Password: changeme Then power on the server. -> start /SYS Are you sure you want to start /SYS (y/n)? y Starting /SYS Then connect to the consloe -> start /SP/console Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n)? y To start …

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Sun fire M5xxx XSCF initial boot process configuration

Sun Fire Mx00 initial configuration login with admin, if admin doesn’t work use default which will wait till the key is turned. login: admin Cerate user jsmith and privileges XSCF> adduser -u 921 jsmith XSCF> password jsmith XSCF> setprivileges jsmith platadm fieldeng useradm mode auditadm XSCF> exit login as jsmith Get all hardware configs XSCF> …

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