About Remote System Control (RSC)

Remote System Control (RSC) is a secure server management tool that lets you monitor and control your server over modem lines or over a network. RSC provides remote system administration for geographically distributed or physically inaccessible systems. The RSC software works with the System Service Processor (SSP) on the Enterprise 250 main logic board. The SSP provides both serial and Ethernet ports for connections to a remote console.

Once RSC is configured to manage your server, you can use it to run diagnostic tests, view diagnostic and error messages, reboot your server, and display environmental status information from a remote console. If the operating system is down, RSC will notify a central host of any power failures, hardware failures, or other important events that may be occurring on your server.

The RSC provides the following features:

• Remote system monitoring and error reporting (including output from POST and OBDiag)

• Remote reboot on demand

• Ability to monitor system environmental conditions remotely

• Ability to run POST and OBDiag tests and use SunVTS from a remote console

• Remote event notification for over-temperature conditions, power supply failures, fatal system errors, or system crashes

• Remote access to detailed event and error logs

• Remote console functions on serial and Ethernet ports

For More Information

For information about configuring and using RSC, see the Remote System Control (RSC) User's Guide, provided with the RSC software.

By default, diagnostic status and error messages are displayed on the local system console or terminal. If your server has been reconfigured to display output on an RSC console, diagnostic results will not display locally. To redirect diagnostic messages to the local console, you must use the OpenBoot PROM command diag-output-to and modify the OpenBoot PROM variables input-device and output-device. For additional details, see the Remote System Control (RSC) User's Guide.