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Sun Fire 3800-6800 Quick Reference Guide
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DC Power Distribution, Sun Fire 6800..............................................43
System LEDs .........................................................................................44
AC Power Distribution........................................................................45
RTU/RTS Connectors & indicators...................................................46
Installing the Administration Console..............................................47
System Controller Interconnect Panel......................................47
Accessing the Platform Shell ..............................................................48
Using the Serial Port ...................................................................48
Using the telnet Command.........................................................48
Using the ssh Command.............................................................48
RSA & DSA Authentication.......................................................49
Regenerating SSH host keys using ssh-keygen ...............................50
Introducing Platform Management...................................................51
Configuring The Platform...................................................................53
System Controller Configuration .............................................53
Platform Configuration ..............................................................53
Managing Platform time-of-day (TOD)............................................55
Configuring an sntp server for the System Controllers .................56
setupplatform .......................................................................................57
Rebooting the system controller ...............................................58
Setting up the loghost..........................................................................59
Edit syslog.conf on the admin workstation.............................59
syslog Parsing Tools ...................................................................59
Powering On and Powering Off System Components...................60
Firmware Upgrades.............................................................................61
Do you need to flashupdate?..........................................................61
flashupdate............................................................................................63
ftp server setup.....................................................................................64
Edit /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow.................................................64
Run the shell script from the ftpd man page...................................64
ftp server setup at Solaris 9 .............................................................65
mkdir /export/ftp/pub and copy the patch into it ........................65
flashupdate - Command Examples ...................................................66
Replacing an SC in a single SC configuration..................................71
Replacing an SC in a dual SC platform (5.13.x & above) ...............73
Managing Shell Passwords.................................................................74
Overriding Shell Passwords ...............................................................75
Environmental and Platform Monitoring ........................................76
Segments and Domains.......................................................................77
Definitions of Segments and Domains..............................................78
Segments (also known as Partitions)........................................78
Domains........................................................................................78
Domain IDs ...........................................................................................79
Segmenting the Platform ....................................................................80
Recommendation ........................................................................80
Enabling Dual-Partition Mode..................................................80
