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CHAPTER 3: Installation and Preconfiguration
3.6 Initial Configuration
Once you plug in and turn on a ServSwitch Affinity and it passes the power-up
diagnostic tests, you’ll need to set an important initial configuration parameter for
it. You’ll be able to fully configure all of the units in your system later from a single
user station, but it’s very important for your system operation that each Affinity at
least have “starting computer” set properly before you do anything else with it.
How you’ll do this will depend on whether your Affinity system consists of a single
unit (see
Section 3.6.1
) or a daisychain of multiple units (see
Section 3.6.2
). (To
change this setting for an Expansion Chassis with no KVM ports, you’ll need to go
through one of its serial ports; see
Chapter 7
.)
In an all Sun installation with a monitor that doesn’t support 640 x 480 resolution,
when you power up the first of your Affinity units with user stations attached to it,
you
must
use the Affinity’s “Configure Computer” page in the Affinity’s menu
system to change the keyboard settings for all of the CPU ports you’ll be using to
“Sun.” Save this configuration and copy it to your other Affinity units later—after
all of your Affinity units are powered up, but
before
your CPUs are powered up.
Refer to the start of
Chapter 4
and to
Sections 4.1
and
4.3
.
3.6.1 I
NITIALLY
C
ONFIGURING A
S
INGLE
U
NIT
Take these steps:
1. Bring up the on-screen display:
a. Make sure that a keyboard, monitor, and mouse are attached to one of the
Affinity’s KVM ports through a User Cable, as described in
Section 3.3.4
.
The monitor must be able to support either 640 x 480 resolution or the
resolution of any powered CPU attached to the Affinity’s lowest-numbered
CPU port. (If you don’t have such a monitor, use a serial connection
instead; see
Chapter 7
.)
b. If you haven’t already done so, power up the unit and wait for the
diagnostics screen (see
Section 3.5
) to fade away.
c. Press and release the left [Ctrl] key, then within two seconds press and
release the [F12] key. The on-screen menu should appear. Using the up-
and down-arrow keys, highlight the “Configure System” field and press
[Enter].
2. Verify the “Starting computer number.” This is the system-sequence number
that has to be assigned to the first CPU port on each ServSwitch Affinity. It
should be “1” for a single unit—and in fact that’s what the default setting
should be on all new units—but if your unit’s set to something different,
change it this way: Highlight the “Starting computer number” field using the
up- and down-arrow keys; press [Enter], type “1,” and press [Enter] again.
