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ILOM for the Sun Netra T5220 Server

This chapter introduces ILOM for the Sun Netra T5220 server.

This chapter contains the following sections:


ILOM Overview

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is system management firmware that is preinstalled on some SPARC 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 an SNMP and IPMI interfaces. For general information about ILOM, see the Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0 Concepts Guide.



Note - For information about upgrading, installing, and configuring ILOM on your service processor see the firmware installation instructions in the Sun Netra T5220 Server Installation Guide and the product notes for your server.




Platform-Specific ILOM Features

ILOM operates on many platforms, supporting features that are common to all platforms. Some ILOM features belong to a subset of platforms and not to all. This document describes features that belong to the Sun Netra T5220 server, augmenting the set of features described in the Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 core documentation.



Note - To perform some procedures documented in the Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.0 core documentation, you must create a serial connection to the server and activate the Physical Presence switch on the server. The Physical Presence switch on the Sun Netra T5220 server is the Locator button. For information about creating a serial connection to your server, see the Sun Netra T5220 Server Administration Guide.




ILOM Features Not Supported in Sun Netra Servers

Among the ILOM features supported on other platforms, ILOM does not support the following features on the server:

The remainder of this document describes the ILOM features that are supported on the server.