Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMESTATION Series User manual

PRIMEPOWER, RM
PRIMESTATION
as LAN Console or System Management Console (SMC)
E. Hübner-Hatzel
Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH Paderborn
33094 Paderborn
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Edition October 2002

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Contents
1 Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Target group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Summary of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3 Notational conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Safety notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1 Functions supported as a LAN Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 Functions supported as an SMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4PRIMESTATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1 Preinstallation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2 PRIMESTATION hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.1 Power ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.2 Environmental conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2.3 Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3 Startup and operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.1 Scope of delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3.2 Unpacking and checking the delivery unit . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3.3 Installing the PRIMESTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4 Overview of connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.1 Connecting the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.2 Connecting the mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.4.3 Connecting devices with a serial or USB interface . . . . . . . 17
4.4.4 Connecting the monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4.5 Connecting the PRIMESTATION to the power supply . . . . . . 18
4.5 Operating the PRIMESTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.5.1 Switching on/off the PRIMESTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.5.1.1 System unit is switched off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.5.1.2 System unit is in standby mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.5.1.3 System unit is switched on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.5.2 Displays on the system unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.5.3 Pre-installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.5.4 Hard disk partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.5.5 First booting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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5 PRIMESTATION as LAN Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.1 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2 Remote Communication Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2.1 Connections on the rear of the RCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.2.1.1 LAN connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.2.1.2 Serial port for connecting the console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.2.2 Cable types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.2.3 Technical specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.2.3.1 Power ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.2.3.2 Environmental conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2.3.3 Dimensions and weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2.3.4 Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2.3.5 Conformity tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.2.3.6 Approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.2.4 Switching on the RCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.3 Installing software packages on the LAN Console . . . . . . . . 36
5.4 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.4.1 Configuring the connected servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.4.1.1 Configuring the PRIMEPOWER systems (MR) . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.4.1.2 Configuring the RM systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.4.2 Configuring the LAN Console and RCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.4.2.1 Initial configuration of the LAN Console and RCA . . . . . . . . 43
5.4.2.2 Configuring the LAN Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.4.2.3 Configuring the RCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5.4.2.4 New RCA ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.4.2.5 Connecting further RCAs to the LAN Console . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.4.2.6 Connecting another LAN Console to the RCA . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.4.2.7 Modifying the LAN Console and RCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.4.3 Remote boot and installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.4.3.1 setup_RM_server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
5.4.3.2 bootpconf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
5.4.3.3 add_RM_client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
5.5 Operating the LAN Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.6 Switching LAN Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.6.1 Planned switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
5.6.2 Switching because of problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.7 Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.7.1 Log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
5.7.2 Status information for the rtty monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.7.3 Configuration entries for the LAN Console . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
5.7.4 RCA system information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.8 Error situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.8.1 No response from the RCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5.8.2 Failure to establish a connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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5.8.3 Disrupted RCA - LAN Console connection . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.8.3.1 LAN connection disrupted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
5.8.3.2 No output in console window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.8.4 Invalid password for RCA setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.9 RCA commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.9.1 Access rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.9.2 List of commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.9.2.1 Help command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.9.2.2 Port commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.9.2.3 Server commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.9.2.4 Show commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
5.9.2.5 User commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
6 PRIMESTATION as SMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
6.1 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
6.2 Upgrading the PRIMESTATION to an SMC . . . . . . . . . . . 97
6.2.1 Hardware upgrade with 2 Fast Ethernet controllers . . . . . . . 98
6.2.2 Use of onboard eri LAN ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
6.3 System Console Software (SCS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.3.1 Installing SCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
6.3.2 Operating the SCS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
7 Teleservice on PRIMESTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
7.1 Installation and generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
7.2 Generating the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
7.3 Selecting validated Teleservice modems . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
7.4 TeleCall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
7.4.1 Installing Telecall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
7.4.1.1 Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
7.4.1.2 Software installation on the PRIMESTATION . . . . . . . . . . 113
7.4.1.3 Software installation on the RM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
7.4.1.4 Software installation on the PRIMEPOWER . . . . . . . . . . . 113
7.4.2 Generating the Telecall cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

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1 Preface
The PRIMESTATION acts asa system consolefor one or more Fujitsu Siemens
Computers UNIX systems (RM or PRIMEPOWER systems). The server
systems are connected to the PRIMESTATION via V.24/Ethernet converter
located close to the system (max. 15m away) or in the system cabinets.
The PRIMESTATION is based on a high-performance SPARC processor in a
desktop model,which can also be installed andoperated in a19-inch rack using
a rack mounting kit. It is released for the following products:
– RM300/400/600 with Reliant UNIX
– PRIMEPOWER 100N/200/400/600/650/850 (Midrange Server, MR) with
Solaris
– PRIMEPOWER 800/1000/2000 (Enterprise Server, EP) with Solaris
This PRIMESTATION can be used bothas a LAN Console for midrange servers
and as a System Management Console (SMC) for enterprise servers.
The Teleservice port for all networked RM or PRIMEPOWER servers is
managed from the PRIMESTATION (teleservice gateway), which means that
only one line to the Service organization is required for all networked
RM/PRIMEPOWER servers.
Use as a LAN Console for midrange servers
This includes the RM models (300/400/600, ServerNode) and the
PRIMEPOWER midrange server models 100N/200/400/600/650/850. Genuine
LAN Console software is used on the PRIMESTATION for managing the server
systems. The Remote Communication Adapter (RCA) can be used as a
V.24/Ethernet converter. Up to 8 or 16 UNIX servers of Fujitsu Siemens
Computers - dependent on the RCA model - can be connected to this RCA.
Multiple RCAs can be installed. Up to 256 Fujitsu Siemens Computers UNIX
servers (MR) can be managed from the PRIMESTATION.
Use as a system management console (SMC) for enterprise servers
This includes the PRIMEPOWER server models 800/1000/2000. The
PRIMESTATION is used as a system management console (SMC) for these
PRIMEPOWER systems. The SPARC-based PRIMESTATION is a cost-
effective alternative to an SMC on the basis of a PRIMEPOWER 200 system
console. The PRIMESTATION is equipped with additional hardware for use as

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an SMC. The SCS (System Console Software) software is used as well as the
Console Connection Units (CCU) as V.24/Ethernet converters in the system
cabinets.
If you have a GP7000 F midrange (M200/M400/M600) machine, all of the
PRIMEPOWER (MR) information applies to your machine also, because the
name GP7000F has been changed to PRIMEPOWER.
The midrange models referred to from both system families can be managed in
mixed mode from a PRIMESTATION with the same user interface. The
PRIMESTATION can be operated in parallel as both a LAN console and SMC
assuming the hardware and software configuration supports this.
It is not only possible to use the PRIMESTATION in its console function but also
for (network-based) system administration, configuration, diagnostics and
software installation and distribution for one or more RM or PRIMEPOWER
(MR) servers. Furthermore, multiple clustered RM or PRIMEPOWER (MR)
servers can be configured, administered and monitored from one console.
Scope of delivery
The PRIMESTATION product consists of a SPARC-based processor with the
Solaris Version 8 operating system, the Solaris Media Kit.
LAN console software (see the chapter “PRIMESTATION as LAN Console”) or
system console software (see the chapter “PRIMESTATION as SMC”) should
be ordered separately.
IThe RCA and PRIMESTATION must be ordered separately.
1.1 Target group
This manual is targeted at system administrators. Knowledge of Reliant UNIX
and Solaris systems is required. If any problems occur with the PRIMES-
TATION, the connected systems or the RCA during system operation, please
contact your local Service organization.
VLAN Console, RCA and SMC are not SIDATA-compatible
The PRIMESTATION as LAN Console or SMC and RCA do not support
SIDATA, i.e. they must be installed and started up by a technician.
System administrators are given instructions on setting them up and
configuring them.

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IIf you are working with a PRIMEPOWER 200 as SMC, you will find the
description in the SMC manual rather than in this one (see documen-
tation on PRIMEPOWER 2000/1000/800 in the appendix).
1.2 Summary of contents
VSafety notes
It is essential to read the chapter “Safety notes” on page 5 before
starting to work with the PRIMESTATION. This chapter contains
essential information for proper installation and handling of this device.
This manual describes how to install the PRIMESTATION and the RCA and
explains how to configure and operate the PRIMESTATION as a LAN Console
or SMC.
The chapter “PRIMESTATION” on page 9 tells you everything about setting up
and connecting the PRIMESTATION as well as about the preinstallation and
hard disk partitioning.
The chapter “PRIMESTATION as LAN Console” on page 25 explains how to
install the RCA, cable it and start it up. It goes on to describe how to install the
software on the LAN Console from the CD-ROM and how to operate the LAN
Console and RCA. A remote boot/installation is also described. The chapter
also tells you how to replace a PRIMESTATION in the event of error and
provides support for troubleshooting and diagnostics.
The section “RCA commands” on page 75 containsa detailed description of the
commands for the RCA relevant for LAN Console functionality.
The chapter “PRIMESTATION as SMC” on page 95 describes how to upgrade
a PRIMESTATION to an SMC and the SMC basic configuration.
The chapter “Teleservice on PRIMESTATION” on page 103 tells you how to
install and operate Teleservice and Telecall.
You will find other helpful information in the reference chapters “Glossary” on
page 117, “Related publications” on page 123 and “Index” at the end of the
manual.
IPlease followall instructions in the order they appear inthis manual. You
will avoid problems by doing so and get along faster. Always pay
attention to the device-specific information that is supplied with the
various devices.

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1.3 Notational conventions
The following notational conventions are used in this manual:
Monospace This indicates system output, e.g. text on a CRT or
LCD screen (cathode ray tube / liquid crystal
display).
Bold
monospace font This indicates user inputs in examples.
Italics This indicates commands, file names, menu names
and inputs in continuous text.
Bold This indicates emphasis in the text.
[Key] This indicates keys or key combinations in
continuous text.
IThis indicates additional information and tips.
VTitle This indicates information, which if not heeded may
jeopardize your health, the functioning of your
system or the security of your data.
ÊThis indicates a step that you have to perform.
--> Thisindicatesthe lastpossiblesolutiontoa problem
or the last step in a flow chart.
●This character and the one below
– Symbolizes itemized lists.