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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:


ILOM Overview

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 3.0 usage and capabilities, see the following ILOM documentation:



Note - For information about establishing a first time connection to ILOM on your server service processor (SP), see “Setting Up ILOM” in the Sun Blade X6270 Server Module Installation Guide (820-6175).



Supported Platform Firmware

TABLE 1-1 identifies the ILOM and BIOS firmware versions supported on the Sun Blade X6270 Server Module.


TABLE 1-1 Supported Platform Firmware

ILOM SP Version

Host BIOS Version

Applicable Hardware

3.0.6.10

07.06.02.15

Sun Blade X6270 Server Module



Features Supported in ILOM 3.0.6

This section describes the new ILOM features that are supported in the ILOM 3.0.6 release.

As of ILOM release 3.0.6, the Sun Blade X6270 Server Module supports the following new or enhanced power management features:

For a detailed description of these new features, refer to the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Feature Updates and Release Notes (820-7329).


Features Not Supported in ILOM 3.0.6

The Sun Blade X6270 Server Module does not support the ILOM 3.0.6 Storage Monitoring feature (also known as Storage Viewer). The Storage Monitoring feature is supported on some other x64 server platforms.


ILOM Platform-Specific 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 ILOM Supplement describes the features that belong to the Sun Blade X6270 Server Module.

Chapter 2 of this Supplement provides detailed information about the ILOM platform features supported on the Sun Blade X6270 Server Module.