Hardware Address error/warning

257 byte By emmanuela at 2007-11-27 11:50:23
<p>anyone ever see this during a setup?</p><p>WARNING: Hardware address cc:cc:cc:dd:dd:dd trying to be our address 192.168.10.10</p><p>I'm setting up a T2000 and going through newtwork setup, but on boot up I get that error/warning.</p><p>any thoughts?</p>

XVR-2500 in V215

119 byte By joel.silversteina at 2007-11-27 11:42:02
<p>Does anyone know if the V215 server will support an XVR-2500 Graphics Card?</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Joel Silverstein</p>

DIMM 4 has single-bit error

235 byte By marty-boya at 2007-11-27 11:41:57
<p>This is an Warning message that got on the Embedded Lights Out manager of an X2200M2 server:</p><p>"DIMM 4 has single-bit error"</p><p>I also have a orange flashing light on front of the server.</p><p>What does it mean exactly ?</p>

Reset RSC password

361 byte By mpecha at 2007-11-27 11:41:14
hi,Sun Fire 280RForget password for RSC, No OS1. turn off server on which password is unknown. Plug cable to port A2. plug cable to port B on the second Sun Fire 280R. Exec 'tip hardwire'3. power up server. wait for blinking lamp and double press power button4. no console in the 'tip'.Whats ...

ilom or Alom cards on Sun fire v880 and E450

189 byte By koli_nirana at 2007-11-27 11:24:51
<p>Hi </p><p> Does anyone have information on the Service processor (ilom or the Alom card) on the sun fire v880 and E450 servers.....</p><p> If someone can help it would be great......</p>

E2900 problems

42470 byte By golfballa at 2007-11-27 11:15:31
Hello not too experienced with E2900, we have a problem, it will not bootAny help or advice how to progress would be appreciated also any indication as to what the problem may be.SB2 and SB4 have been disabled manually.Thanks in advanceConsole output LOMlom>lom>poweron/N0/PS0: powered on Fri Jul 20 ...

Sunfire V100 server

506 byte By vinuemmanuela at 2007-11-27 11:14:01
Hi All, I have experience installing x86 based system Linux and Solaris. I never installed Solaris on Sun servers, so I decided to explore Solaris on sun machines, I have purchased from Ebay a Sunfire V100 server with 512 MB RAM, CD Rom etc. Now I have the sun box without OS installed or unknown if ...

Service LED (yellow one) is on, but no apparent errors

16076 byte By A.Skwara at 2007-11-27 10:49:24
Hello.For some time now, on two of my servers, the yellow Service LED is on. The servers are working fine, though.In the ALOM logs, I also don't find anything useful:winds01_sc> showlogs -vNOV 24 17:43:18 winds01: 00040029: "Host system has shut down."NOV 24 17:57:38 winds01: 0000000a: "Power ...

V240 over serial in ALOM Port

274 byte By gerald.dardena at 2007-11-27 10:45:15
<p>I have a V240 (2x1.5ghz) and I am trying to connect to it using the hyper terminal on Windows XP, but all I get is unrecognizable characters. I have my port set to COM 1 ( using a Cisco crossover cable), 9600-8-N-1 , and it connects, but the just spits out gibberish.</p>

Sun Enterprise 220R output issue :S

611 byte By grayfoxa at 2007-11-27 10:38:30
Hey this is my first sun server and im having a bit of a problem :/.I can't seem to get any output in hyperterminal from this sun 220R from any of the serial ports on the back.Just incase im doing something Very noob heres a picture of how I have it hooked up.It goes from the usb to serial ...

Compatibility question

195 byte By grayfoxa at 2007-11-27 10:08:07
Would a pci video card from a pc or mac be compatible with a sun enterprise 220R server ?.(Im assuming the mac one probably is since the mac uses open firmware and so does the sun.)

Adding New Disk to SUN V445 Running Solaris 10

351 byte By NewAdmina at 2007-11-27 10:05:25
Hello, We just received 2 new SUN V445's each containing 2 73GB drives. We also purchased an additional 6 drives for each unit to load them up to max. We have unboxed and loaded the drives in one unit and it seems to see the additional drives ok, however, I am stuck at getting them to be ...

I'm having a nightmare with V40z under RHEL 4 update 2!

1192 byte By mossymossa at 2007-11-27 10:03:29
Dear All,i have noticed that most of you trying to be very helpfull, i appreciated that really.I have to work with sun V40z in my company, RHEL 4 update 2 has to be installed in that machine. Problem: Installing RHEL AS V4 Update 2 on V40z results in very slow 2D graphics (e.g. just moving a ...

X4100 M2 w/ RHEL 4.5 (4 Update 5) no network

632 byte By yangpata at 2007-11-27 9:50:34
I get no network access on a brand-new freshly installed server. I tried the Intel and NVidia ports (eth0-1 and eth2-3) and get a "Check cable" every time.Thinking it was a driver issue, I tried to retrieve updates from the Sun Installation Assistant 2.0.134 and get the same network not ...

X6250 two or four socket two or four disk

432 byte By solaris9uka at 2007-11-27 9:42:41
I have been looking on sunsolve at the relatively new sunblade 6000 system and am a little confused on the X6250 page there is a picture of a blade with four processor sockets and two 2.5inch drive bays now all of the specs say that the x6250 has two CPU sockets and four drive bays. Which is it ...

Sun Fire X4600 - reset /SP and start /SYS commands fails

474 byte By edechauxa at 2007-11-27 9:33:00
Dear all,I have problems with the SP of a Sun Fire X4600 :reset -script /SP command fails with error reset: No such object valueandstart -script /SYS command fail with error start: Failed to start /SYSIs there a way to force a reboot of the SP without unpluging the power cord ?Ilom version is ...

maximum FC distance

148 byte By tomoooa at 2007-11-27 9:29:44
What is the maximum LC-LC cable distance between X4200 server (SG-XPCI1FC-QF4) and ST 6140 storage system directly attached. Any idea?

CPU operating temperature

146 byte By wiederkehrca at 2007-11-27 9:29:43
This should be easy:Where can I find CPU-Documentation, that specifies optimum and maximum CPU operating temperatures?Thanks!

Noisy V445

206 byte By son_ta at 2007-11-27 9:25:56
Just turned on and installed a SunFire V445 and it is SO LOUD!Does anyone know how I can turn down the FANS to reduce the noise (I suspect the fans are the culprit for the screeeetching here)?

Sun Fire X4100 - Serial redirection is very unstable.

782 byte By edechauxa at 2007-11-27 9:24:04
Dear all,I am having new troubles with X4100 hardware.I am setting up console serial redirection and it does not work properly. Here is what I am doing :- I set up the SP serial port speed to 115200 and commitpending to true.- I set up console redirection port speed accordingly in the BIOS.When ...

HP 9600 Series CD-Writer and Ultra 30

188 byte By jfalknora at 2007-11-27 9:21:25
Hello to all,How do I get an HP 9600 series CD-writer to be recognized by my UltraSparc 30?What should the Pin settings on the HP 9600 be?Thank you,James

E450 CPU Problem?

208 byte By Andry_Ha at 2007-11-27 9:20:22
Hi,I got a warning message: fail-Master Disable for UltraSPARC-II.And the output from prtdiag shows than one of the CPU has gone.Is this a CPU problem?Thank you.Andry

RSC-card factory default

321 byte By maica at 2007-11-27 9:14:08
Hello, I have a problem to get access to my Sunfire 280R with RSC. I磎 the new admin from the server and haven磘 got the passwort. Is it possible to reset the RSC-card to factory default? I have tried the reset jumper on the card. But it isn磘 an factory default. Best regards, ...

SunFire V210 Boot Issue

1348 byte By kcashiona at 2007-11-27 9:06:01
Hi All,I have been having a severe problem with one of our servers, our SunFire V210.It had some power issues with the PSU faulting and I have just replaced the power on it. However due to those issues, and some maintenance on it (software) a few times over the past six months it has had to be ...

Sun Fire X4100 - Remote Control via ilom not working

792 byte By edechauxa at 2007-11-27 8:58:18
Dear allI am having troubles with the Remote Control feature integrated in the Sun Fire X4100 ilom.When I click on the "Launch Redirection" button nothing happens. I just have the "Analyzing configuration" text but nothing more.I have tried in both 8bit and 16bit modes with same result. I also ...

Netra T1 AC200 PROM update for wanboot?

179 byte By gmd_bnppa at 2007-11-27 8:52:29
Hi,Is there any PROM update available for Netra T1 AC200 which include the wanboot feature as we can found in 119234-01 for Sun Fire V210/V240?ThanksSC

Solaris Utility Environment. (SUE)

191 byte By icttech_01a at 2007-11-27 8:43:28
Anyone know where i can download the SUE disk for OPB and firmware updates? ive had a good look around and dont know how to source this. Any help appreciated. Many Thanks, Paul.

Sun Fire x4100 M2 no video output

357 byte By zdravko_bga at 2007-11-27 8:42:33
Hi all, First when this server was started everything was fine. He started, the video was running. After the configuration of ILOM from BIOS menu, the server was rebooted. After that he never shown anything on the display. Serial interface is working , the ILOM doesn't redirect to KVM. Can ...

Detect hardware error string

235 byte By sonylwca at 2007-11-27 8:28:56
Hi folks, I am trying to gather some string patterns that indicate hardware error in /var/adm/messages? like scsi error, memory/cpu etc.Do you know if Sun have this string database that is available to us?Dk

Resetting default password on X4200 ILOM

198 byte By ppercivala at 2007-11-27 8:26:08
Have acquired an existing X4200 and the root password on the ILOM is unknown. How can I change back to default password (changeme) for the root userid so I can control.thanks,PP

Unable to connect to a Sunfire 280R

794 byte By urban_insighta at 2007-11-27 8:19:25
Disclaimer: Know little about Sun.We are a windows and Linux shop and got an old Sun server to evaluate. Funny thing, I can't find any information online on how to get into it.I've read: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/806-4806-10.pdfpages 64ish, and I understand the ...

reset sun blade 1000 firmware password

583 byte By RajaGovindana at 2007-11-27 8:16:15
I tried resetting firmware password successfully on sun blade 100 ;By removing the nvram chip and got the ok promptlater "set-defaults" ; ""setenv security-mode none" commands succesfully removed the firmware password on sun blade 100But when I tried the same on sun blade 1000 ; its accepting ...

SUN 5500 ALOM

492 byte By RHjavaa at 2007-11-27 8:16:10
Hello everybody,Here we have a Sun Enterprise 5500 system on which I tested to run scadm. I found two files:/sbin/platform.../Sun-Fire-V240/../scadm/sbin/platform.../Sun-Fire-V250/../scadmand when I run each I get back this error:scadm: The sc hardware could not be initialized. Please tell ...

SunFire V120

429 byte By deal732a at 2007-11-27 8:01:41
Hello There,I am trying to setup LOM setting in SunFire V120. I couldn't able to find out how to setup Network Variable in SunFire V120. setupnetwork command doesn't work in LOM and also i don't see in help when i type help in LOM> prompt. Anybody knows, what is the way to setup Network ...

SunFire V445

601 byte By ferrutia at 2007-11-27 8:01:17
Hi,We recently got a Sun Fire v445 server, which is running Solaris 10. The system is up and running but none of our main applications have been deployed to it since we find out that every day the fans become way too noisy which may indicate that the server is over heating. I have double ...

v490s using XVR-100 Display Cards

279 byte By jdw9270a at 2007-11-27 8:01:10
Hello. I had a Sun Technician install an XVR-100 card into each of my 4x490s. I am trying to boot my Solaris boxes to display on a KVM switch, though I get NO display? Any suggestions?To do anything, I need to at least get a promptRegardsJeff W

To know lsi model

179 byte By awennea at 2007-11-27 7:42:37
HiI have a v440 server and I want to know how can I get the Lsi model (Raid hardware controller). Thanks in advanceMessage was edited by: awenne

Sun Fire V40z - LCD output "OS Booting"

291 byte By edechauxa at 2007-11-27 7:41:18
Dear all,I am running VMWare ESX 3.0 on 16 Sun Fire V40z.When I query the SP for the OS state (platform get os state) I always get "OS booting" even when the OS has finished.Is there a way to have the right state displayed ?Many thanks.--Eric

Sun E250 Questions

1007 byte By L_Ron_Hoovera at 2007-11-27 7:35:02
I'm hoping some HW experts can help me out with a question regarding a bunch of old E250s we have here:Background: Our hardware vendor has informed us that the V440 we've been using as a "sandbox" dev environment is no longer supported, and must be upgraded to a V880 at a total cost of nearly ...

v245 Jumbo Frames

1892 byte By my_utop1aa at 2007-11-27 7:31:40
I'm trying to configure jumbo frames on just one interface of a v245 as well as setting the speed and duplexing.On bge0 I want to force it to 100mb Full DuplexOn bge1 I want to force it to 1000mb Full Duplex and set the MTU to 9000.I've setup a script to force bge0 to 100mb full duplex like ...

220R go or no-go

389 byte By Benz4Lifea at 2007-11-27 6:57:05
Hi There,I am looking for an upgrade to my Linux-box as a server (PIII/500) and stumbled upon a 220R enterprise. I do have any experience, but not much, with Windows. What can I do with it and can I add a Wifi-card in order to attach wireless (laptop) to wired as I can with my server right now? ...

Trying to update OBP getting unrecognized magic number in media label

806 byte By omarharuma at 2007-11-27 6:56:49
Two questions both relating to my trying to update my OBP:1. when I typebanner I get ... AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi), PS/2 keyboardOpenBoot 3.10.12 SME...but when I type .version I get OBP 3.10.12My question is which OBP update to use, AXi OBP 3.10.13 or OBP 3.10.31?2. When I try to install either I ...

X2200 Nvidia Raid Notification

433 byte By erkela at 2007-11-27 6:56:43
Hi,Has anyone been able to get any sort of meaningful interfacing in to the raid system so that changes in the raid array can be notified. As it currently stands the only notification of any changes in the array is via a popup in windows, No event logs, no means of notification, no nothing, ...

RHEL4 on to a x4200 via Kickstart

427 byte By SethYatesO2a at 2007-11-27 6:51:27
Has anyone managed to RHEL4 on to a x4200 using Kickstart?It seems to me that the initial kernel image doesn't support the NICs, as once it attempts the second DHCP lookup my Kickstart/DHCP server receives no network traffic from it.I've tried Updates 3 and 5, and the X4200 Resource CD ...

Sunfire V100 disk

272 byte By isaac509a at 2007-11-27 6:30:58
Hello - I have an older V100/IDE server, and I am having a hard time determining how large a disk the system will recognize. Sun seemed to package them with 20,40,80g disks when new but I'm hoping for more capacity. Any help appreciated, - Eli

e2900

496 byte By ralph@cancerboard.ab.caa at 2007-11-27 6:29:56
I have recently racked an e2900 after a year or so delay. The problem is that there is no power being fed to the system. Not even the auxillary bus is powering up to get fan 3 going.I seem to recall when I first set up this system that I had to use the right power cords to get the system ...

SMC Don't show hardware information on SF-V245

73 byte By fabiomoraisa at 2007-11-27 6:23:07
When I try to view hardware information, SMC don't show anything.

probe-scsi message Error

748 byte By tachuSunDNa at 2007-11-27 6:23:02
Hi,This error may be is the reason of my eth card problem.i tried to run the probe-scsi in a V440 Sun Server, and I have the following error:{1} ok probe-scsiThis command may hang the system if a Stop-A or halt commandhas been executed. Please type reset-all to reset the systembefore executing ...

Problem with ATI radeon 7000 video card with Sun Fire v240

479 byte By Abdel33a at 2007-11-27 6:15:05
Hello guys,I have a Sun Fire v240 server with a solaris 8 and I installed a ATI radeon 7000 video card into a PCI slot. First of all, where can I find the drivers of this Video adapter, I checked the vendors website but I couldn't find it. Secondly, are these drivers the right ones I ...

V240 CPU replacement

94 byte By vgs8514a at 2007-11-27 6:04:10
I want to replace a failed CPU but cannot remove it from the heatsink. Any suggestions?