2007-07-17 10:12:00
Oy vey! One of the folks on the Sun Fire V890 must've been mesjoge! Why else would you decided to make such a weird design decision?!
What's up? I'll tell you what's up!
For some reason the design team decided to throw out the RJ45 console port that's been a Sun standard for nigh on ten years. And what did they replace it with? A DB25 port commonly seen in the Mesozoic Era! Good lord! This left me stranded without the proper cable for this morning's installation (thankfully I could borrow one). However, it also requires us to get completely new and different cables for our Cyclades console server!
Bad Sun! How could you make such a silly decision?!
kilala.nl tags: unix, work, meh, sysadmin,
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Posted by Thomas
Unfortunately the RSC/ALOM cannot be used during installation. Before you can use it, you'll need to install additional software, namely SUNWrsc.
Posted by RawCode (website)
Couldn't you just buy a RJ45 - DB25 shell and wire the pinout so it will be compatible?
Posted by Thomas
Sure we could, but it still sucks that we'd have to do it that way. That'd be a serious kludge and a deviation from our standards...
Posted by martijn
yeah, you are right. It is the old rsc-card. As from the new servers they have ALOM/ILOM or SC connection with installing additional software for it.
Now you know, when you are going to fiddle on a V880/890/480/490 you need your toolbox with you. Or put in the cyclades DB25 connector delivered with the console server for initial configuration.
Cheers,
M
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2007-07-17 12:40:00
Posted by Martijn
Hey, the V890 is just the bigger brother of the V880 which always had a DB25 serial connection. Nowadays the RSC/ALOM is preconfigured so use the RJ45-serial of the ALOM to manage the server.
Cheers,
Martijn