Chapter 3
Setup and Power-On Procedures
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Connect a serial interface breakout cable directly to the Sun Fire V445 server. See
the
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide
for details.
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Connect a serial interface breakout cable to a patch panel and use the straight-
through patch cable (supplied by Sun) to connect the patch panel to the server.
The following illustration shows how to connect a patch cable between a terminal
server, patch panel, and the serial management port (SERIAL MGT) on the Sun Fire
V445 server.
FIGURE 3-1
Patch Panel Connection Between a Terminal Server and a Sun Fire V445
Server
If the pinouts for the serial management port
do not
correspond with the pinouts for
the RJ-45 ports on the terminal server, you need to make a crossover cable that takes
each pin on the Sun Fire V445 server serial management port to the corresponding
pin in the terminal server’s serial port.
shows the crossovers that the cable must perform.
Terminal
server
Patch panel
Sun Fire V445
server
Straight-through cable
Patch cable to serial management port
