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ILOM 3.0 Feature Sets |
This chapter provides a brief overview about ILOM, as well as defines the purpose of ILOM’s common and platform features offered in ILOM 3.0. The following topics are discussed in this chapter:
Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is system management firmware that is preinstalled on all x64-based servers. ILOM enables you to actively manage and monitor components installed in your server. ILOM provides a browser-based interface and a command-line interface, as well as SNMP and IPMI interfaces. For general information about ILOM’s use and capabilities, see the ILOM Documentation Collection, which comprises the following documents:
These documents are available online at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/int.lights.mgr30#hic
For information about establishing a first time connection to ILOM on your server’s service processor (SP), see “Setting Up ILOM” in the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers Installation Guide (820-5827).
TABLE 1-1 identifies the supported ILOM and BIOS firmware versions supported on the servers.
This section describes the ILOM features supported in this release of ILOM. The following topics are discussed here:
The Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers support the entire ILOM feature set provided in ILOM 3.0.
For information about the use of the ILOM 3.0 feature set, see the ILOM Documentation Collection listed in the ILOM Overview.
The Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers support the new features included in the 3.0.6 release of ILOM. For a detailed description of these new features, refer to the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0.6 Feature Updates and Release Notes (820-7329). The following sections list the new features included in ILOM 3.0.6.
As of version 3.0.6, ILOM supports additional storage monitoring functions for viewing and monitoring storage details that are associated with system hard disk drives (HDDs) and RAID controllers. These enhanced storage property details are available in ILOM from the ILOM CLI.
This feature provides the following capabilities:
As of version 3.0.6, ILOM supports the following new or enhanced common power management features:
ILOM 3.0 operates on many platforms, supporting features that are common to all platforms. Some ILOM 3.0 features belong to a subset of platforms and not to all. This Supplement describes the features that belong to the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers, augmenting the set of common features described in the ILOM 3.0 documentation.
Chapter 2 of this Supplement provides detailed information about the ILOM platform-specific features supported on the Sun Fire X4170, X4270, and X4275 Servers.
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