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14 Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server Installation Guide • August 2006
■ Embedded LOM firmware. Preinstalled on the service processor chipset is a
library of system management firmware applications. This service processor
firmware is operating system independent. These firmware applications provide
the following system management interfaces into your server:
■ A web-based graphical interface
■ A Secure Shell (SSH) command-line interface
■ An IPMI v2.0 command interface (CLI)
■ A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v3 interface
These interfaces call the same underlying system management functions on your
service processor, so you can choose to work with one or more of these interfaces
to integrate with the other management interfaces running in your data center.
■ Remote Console application. The Remote Console application is a piece of
layered software that allows remote clients to view the graphical console of your
host server as though they were directly attached its video connector. The Remote
Console mirrors the video display from the X2100 VGA device (up to 1600 x 1200
resolution) locally on the remote management system. The remote keyboard,
mouse, CD drive, or diskette drive will appear as standard USB devices.
Note – The Remote Console does not require any special applications to be installed
on client systems. Client systems require only a web browser with Sun Java™
runtime environment version 5.0 or later plugins correctly installed. Java is available
for free download at http://java.sun.com.
■ Client-side Secure Shell application. To access the Embedded LOM through a
remote Secure Shell (SSH), you must install a Secure Shell communications
application on the remote client system (server, workstation, or laptop). Many
Secure Shell communications applications are available from commercial or open
source distribution. Refer to http://www.openssh.org for information about
open source client-side SSH applications.
■ Serial Redirection. The BIOS contains two options for serial redirection. You can
either set the serial redirection to display the system output or the Embedded
LOM output. A console can also be started to display system output. By default,
the Embedded LOM output will be displayed. See “Changing Serial Output to
Display the System Information” on page 23 for more information.
Sun Microsystems™ has configured the service processor hardware and firmware on
your server to reflect the most common default settings used in the field. It is
unlikely that you will need to change most of these defaults.