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Sun Fire X4640 Server Front and Back Panel Features and Components
Sun Fire X4640 Server Front Panel Features and Components
Sun Fire X4640 Server Back Panel Features and Components
Installing the Server Hardware
Contents of the Box and Optional Documentation Media Kit
How to Remove Components to Reduce Weight
How to Install the Express Slide Rails Onto the Server and the Rack
How to Insert the Server Into the Rack
How to Verify Slide-Rail Operation
Installing the Cable Management Arm (CMA)
How to Attach the Cable Management Arm (CMA)
How to Verify Cable Management Arm (CMA) Operation
How to Remove the Cable Management Arm (CMA)
Removing the Server From the Rack
How to Remove the Server From the Rack
How to Apply Standby Power for Initial Service Processor Configuration
How to Power On All Server Components
Getting Service for Your Server
How to Find the Server's Serial Number
Sun Fire X4640 Server Specifications
Physical Specifications For the Sun Fire X4640 Server
Power Specifications For the Sun Fire X4640 Server
Communicating With the ILOM and the System Console
About ILOM SP IP Addresses and the ILOM Interfaces
Connecting to the System Console
Setting Up Your Operating System
Configuring the Preinstalled Solaris OS
(Optional) How to Redirect the Console Output to the Video Port
How to Connect to the Server Using a Serial Capture Program
Oracle's Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) provides advanced service processor hardware and software that you can use to manage and monitor your Oracle servers. ILOM's dedicated hardware and software is preinstalled on a variety of Sun server platforms, including x64-based Sun Fire servers, Sun Blade modular chassis systems, Sun Blade server modules, as well as on SPARC-based servers. ILOM is a vital management tool in the data center and can be used to integrate with other data center management tools already installed on your systems.
Oracle is currently transitioning many systems to support ILOM so that customers will have a single, consistent, and standards-based service processor (SP) across Sun's product lines. For customers, this means you have:
A single, consistent system management interfaces for operators
Rich protocol and standards support
Third-party management support
System management functions integrated into Oracle servers at no extra cost
ILOM enables you to actively manage and monitor the server independently of the operating system state, providing you with a reliable Lights Out Management (LOM) system. With ILOM, you can proactively:
Learn about hardware errors and faults as they occur
Remotely control the power state of your server
View the graphical and non-graphical consoles for the host
View the current status of sensors and indicators on the system
Determine the hardware configuration of your system
Receive generated alerts about system events in advance via IPMI PETs, SNMP traps, or email Alerts
The ILOM service processor (SP) runs its own embedded operating system and has a dedicated Ethernet port, which together provide out-of-band management capability. In addition, you can access ILOM from the server's host operating system. Using ILOM, you can remotely manage your server as if you were using a locally attached keyboard, monitor, and mouse.
ILOM automatically initializes as soon as power is applied to your server. It provides a full-featured, browser-based web interface and has an equivalent command-line interface (CLI). There is also an industry-standard SNMP interface and IPMI interface.