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Sun Fire V445 Server Installation Guide • November 2006
About Setting Up a System Console
Device
To install the Solaris OS and any application software, you must set up a terminal or
other device to access the system console. You can either:
■
Connect the system to a terminal server.
■
Use an alphanumeric (ASCII) terminal.
■
Establish a
tip
connection from another server.
Regardless of the method you choose, for
initial
power-on you must connect the
device to the serial management port (SER MGT). After initial power-on, you may
use the NET MGT port if you choose. See the
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration
Guide
for details.
The following section provides background information on connecting the server to
a terminal server. This section is followed by instructions for setting up a terminal
server, followed by instructions for setting up an alphanumeric terminal to access
the system console, and then followed by instructions for setting up a Tip connection
from another Sun system.
For more detailed information, see the
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide.
Note –
All of the procedures in the following sections assume that you are setting
up a system console device by using the default configuration; that is, the system
console is directed to the ALOM system controller through the serial management
port (SERIAL MGT). After initial power-on, you may choose to use the NET MGT
port. See the
Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Guide
for details.
About Connecting the Server to a Terminal Server
The serial management port on the Sun Fire V445 server is a data terminal
equipment (DTE) port. The pinouts for the serial management port correspond with
the pinouts for the RJ-45 ports on the serial interface breakout cable supplied by
Cisco for use with the Cisco AS2511-RJ terminal server. If you use a terminal server
made by another manufacturer, check that the serial port pinouts of the Sun Fire
V445 server match those of the terminal server you plan to use.
If the pinouts for the server serial ports correspond with the pinouts for the RJ-45
ports on the terminal server, you have two connection options:
