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SERVSWITCH™ AFFINITY
3.5 The Power-Up Procedure
About three seconds after you plug in and turn on a ServSwitch Affinity as
described in
Section 3.3.8
, a diagnostics screen running a self-test will appear on
user-station monitors and serial devices attached to the unit. (In an all Sun
installation with a monitor that doesn’t support 640 x 480 resolution, the video
port of a powered and operating Sun CPU needs to be connected to the Affinity’s
lowest-numbered CPU port in order for the Affinity to display this screen
properly—see
Section 3.3.5
.) This screen and its standard messages are discussed
in
Section 3.5.1
. Error messages that might appear instead are discussed in
Section 3.5.2
, and the special set of information that appears on serial connections
is discussed in
Section 3.5.3
. After a few more seconds, the screen disappears and
either a login box or a connection-status box appears.
(
Dual-Powered ServSwitch Affinity models:
When you try to power up the Affinity,
examine the three POWER MONITOR LEDs on its front panel. All three should
be lit. If any of them are dark, make sure that the chassis’ power cords are correctly
attached at both ends and that the outlets they’re plugged into are working. If both
cords are securely plugged in and both outlets are OK, the Affinity might have
suffered an internal failure; see the paragraph about “Your Dual-Powered Affinity
is plugged in but its front-panel LEDs are not all lit” at the end of
Section 9.1
. If
you find that one of the power supplies has failed, see
Section 9.2
for how to
proceed.)
If your system is an Affinity daisychain, power up each unit separately, waiting
approximately 15 seconds for diagnostics to complete. You will also want to initially
configure each unit separately as described in
Section 3.6
.
If any mouse that’s not attached to the Affinity at power-up is plugged in later,
the Affinity will not be able to autodetect its type and will, by default, try to interact
with it using the PS/2 mouse protocol. Likewise, the Affinity will default to PC
mode 2 if you attach a keyboard after power-up. This protocol will not work with
Sun keyboards and there’s no way to change the default setting, so if you need to
attach a Sun keyboard after power-up, you’ll have to turn off the Affinity, plug in
the keyboard, and turn the Affinity back ON.
Once you’ve plugged in and turned ON all of the Affinity units in your system,
and have also initially configured them, power up the remaining CPUs connected
to the system one by one, giving each one time to boot completely before turning
ON the next one. When the CPUs are powered up after the ServSwitch Affinity, the
Affinity emulates all keyboard and mouse functions for automatic boot-up. (You
might want to issue a Keep Settings command after initial bootup, so that the
Affinity saves the mode settings it has autodetected to nonvolatile memory.)