Preface

This service manual provides detailed procedures for removing and replacing components in the Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server from Oracle®. This document also includes information about the use and maintenance of the server.

It is written for technicians, system administrators, authorized service providers, and users who have advanced experience troubleshooting and replacing hardware.

This preface contains the following topics:


Product Information

For information about the Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server, go to the following web site:

http://www.oracle.com/goto/x4170m2

At that site, you can find links and navigate to the following information and downloads:


Related Documentation

The related documents listed in the following table are available online at:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sf.x4170m2#hic


Title

Content

Part Number

Format

Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Product Notes

Late-breaking information about the server

821-0482

PDF

HTML

Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Getting Started Guide

Basic installation information for setting up the server

821-0480

PDF

Print

Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Installation Guide

Detailed installation information for setting up the server

821-0481

PDF

HTML

Print option

Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Installation Guide for Linux, Virtual Machine Software, and Oracle Solaris Operating Systems

Installation instructions for the Linux, Oracle VM, VMware, and Oracle Solaris operating systems

821-0483

PDF

HTML

Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Installation Guide for Windows Operating Systems

Installation instructions for the Windows Server operating systems

821-0484

PDF

HTML

Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server Service Manual

Information and procedures for maintaining and upgrading the Sun Fire X4170 M2 Server

821-0486

PDF

HTML

Sun Disk Management Overview For x64 Sun Fire and Sun Blade Series Servers

Overview of disk management for the server and information for managing mass-storage devices on the server

820-6053

PDF

HTML

Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server Service Manual

Information and procedures for maintaining and upgrading the Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server

821-0488

PDF

HTML

Sun Installation Assistant 2.3 through 2.4 User’s Guide for x64 Servers

Instructions for using Oracle’s Sun Installation Assistant to install the Windows and Linux operating systems

821-0694

PDF

HTML

Sun x64 Servers Diagnostics Guide

Information for diagnosing and troubleshooting the server

820-6750

PDF

HTML

Sun Server CLI and IPMItool 2.0 User’s Guide

Instructions for using the Sun Server Hardware Management Pack applications and utilities

821-1600

PDF

HTML

Sun Server Hardware Management Pack 2.0 User’s Guide

Instructions for installing the Sun Server Hardware Management Pack software

821-1609

PDF

HTML

Sun Server Management Agent 2.0 User’s Guide

Instructions for using the Sun Server Management Agent software

821-1601

PDF

HTML

Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0 Documentation Collection (formerly called Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager Documentation Collection)

ILOM features and tasks that are common to servers and server modules that support ILOM 3.0

820-5523

820-6410

820-6411

820-6412

820-6413

PDF

HTML

Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0 Supplement for Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers

ILOM 3.0 information that is specific to the Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers

821-0489

PDF

HTML

Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Safety and Compliance Guide

Hardware safety and compliance information for the server

821-0490

PDF

Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card User’s Guide

Installation, configuration, and maintenance information for this server PCIe card

820-7265

PDF

HTML

Important Safety Information for Sun Hardware Systems

Multilingual hardware safety and compliance information for all Sun hardware system

821-1590

Print


Translated versions of some of these documents are available at the web site URL listed above this table. English documentation is revised more frequently and might be more up-to-date than the translated documentation.


Documentation, Support, and Training


Function

URL

Documentation

http://docs.sun.com

Support

http://www.sun.com/support/

Training

http://www.sun.com/training/



Typographic Conventions


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The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your.login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

% You have mail.

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What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output

% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.

Read Chapter 6 in the User’s Guide.

These are called class options.

You must be superuser to do this.

To delete a file, enter rm filename.



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