Connect a Laptop to the System

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Ensure that the laptop has functional USB and network ports.

Ensure that you have a Category 5E patch cable of maximum length 25 feet and a serial cable of maximum length 15 feet.

Open the rear cabinet door of the rack.

Connect the network port of your laptop into an unused input port in the Cisco Catalyst 4948 Ethernet switch.
This switch is inside a vented filler panel in Unit 19 of your system rack. Note that you should not connect to any of the management or console ports on the switch. The ports are labeled on the switch.

Note - If you require serial connectivity, you can use a USB-to-Serial adapter to connect from the USB port of your laptop to the Cisco switch. A USB-to-Serial adapter is installed in the rack on all of the gateway switches (Sun Network QDR InfiniBand Gateway Switches). An extra adapter is included in the shipping kit in Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 configurations.

If you have not booted your laptop, start the operating system now.
- If you are using the Windows operating system, do the following:
  1. Go to Control Panel > Network Connections. Select your wired network adapter in the list of network connections, then right-click and select Properties.
    The network properties screen is displayed.
  2. Click the General tab, and select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Click Properties.
    The Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties screen is displayed.
  3. Select the Use the following IP address: option, and type a static IP address for your laptop.
    Note - This static IP should be on the same subnet and address range as the network on which the Cisco Ethernet switch resides. You can use the default NET0 IP addresses of SPARC T5-8 servers assigned at the time of manufacturing or the custom IP address that you reconfigured using the Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Configuration Utility tool. For the list of default NET0 IP addresses, see Default IP Addresses.
  4. Although a default gateway is not necessary, enter the same IP address in the Default Gateway field.
  5. Click OK to exit the network connections screen.
- If you are using a Linux operating system, do the following:
  1. Log in as a root user.
  2. At the command prompt, type the following command to display the network devices, such as ETH0, attached to the system:
    # ifconfig -a
    
    The list of network devices or adapters attached to the system is displayed.
  3. To set up the desired network interface, run the ifconfig command at the command prompt, as in the following example:
    # ifconfig eth0 192.0.2.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
    
    In this example, the ifconfig command assigns the IPv4 address 192.0.2.10, with a network mask of 255.255.255.0, to the eth0 interface.

For laptop connectivity, open any telnet or ssh client program, such as PuTTY.
Connect to one of the service processor IP addresses or to the IP address of a SPARC T5-8 server that is up and running.

Note - After you cable your laptop to the Cisco Catalyst 4948 Ethernet switch, you can use the NET0 IP addresses of system components to communicate with them. For a list of default IP addresses assigned at the time of manufacturing, see Default IP Addresses.

Note - If you or the Oracle installer have not run the Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Configuration Utility set of tools and scripts to reconfigure IP addresses for the system, you can use a set of default IP addresses. If you or the Oracle installer have already run the Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Configuration Utility set of tools and scripts, you can use the network IP address that you provided in the Oracle SuperCluster T5-8 Configuration Worksheets document.