Planning Configuration Settings

The Sun Remote System Control configuration script prompts you to enter configuration settings. If you do not know information for some categories, you can skip those sections and use the rscadm utility or RSC interfaces to configure those parts of RSC after installation.

Before you begin to configure Sun Remote System Control software on a Sun Enterprise 250 server, write down the following information, if available.

• Server hostname:

• Customer information string to identify the server in alert messages (8 characters maximum, including alphanumeric characters and hyphen):

You may want to use the server's service contract number (recommended), location, system administrator, or responsible department as customer information.

• Do you want to enable Ethernet connection to RSC? (y|n):

• If the Ethernet connection will be enabled, how do you want to control network configuration (configure manually, or using DHCP protocol and a DHCP server)?:

  Choose to configure manually if you want to enter Internet addresses, or choose DHCP if you want to use DHCP protocol and a DHCP server to assign appropriate network configuration settings.

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  Sun recommends setting the RSC device name associated with the IP address in name server maps (either NIS or DNS) to be the name of the server with -rsc appended to it. For instance, if your server's hostname is bert, the recommended name to assign to the RSC device for that server is bert-rsc. Sun also recommends that if you use DHCP, you configure the DHCP server to assign a fixed IP address to RSC.

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• If RSC will use configured Ethernet protocol:

  • Internet address for RSC:

  • Internet address for the subnet mask:

  • Internet address for the default gateway to use when the destination is not on the same subnet as RSC:

• Do you want RSC to send alerts when problems occur? (y|n):

• Do you want RSC to send alert messages by email? (y|n):

• If you want RSC to send alert messages by email:

  • Internet addresses for SMTP mail server:

  • Internet addresses for backup SMTP mail server (optional):

  • Email address to use:

• Do you want RSC to send alert messages to a pager? (y|n):

• If you want RSC to send alert messages to a pager:

  • Pager 1 telephone number:

  • Pager 1 modem initialization string:

  • Pager 1 account password:

  • Pager 1 baud rate:

  • Pager 1 data bits:

  • Pager 1 parity:

  • Pager 1 stop bits:

• Do you want RSC to send alert messages to an additional pager? (y|n):

• If you want RSC to send alert messages to an additional pager:

  • Pager 2 telephone number:

  • Pager 2 modem initialization string:

  • Pager 2 account password:

  • Pager 2 baud rate:

  • Pager 2 data bits:

  • Pager 2 parity:

  • Pager 2 stop bits:

• Do you want to enable use of an RSC modem on the RSC serial port? (y|n):

• If you will enable an RSC modem:

  • Do you want to enable PPP over the RSC modem? (y|n):

  • PPP local IP address (if not dynamically configured):

  • PPP remote IP address (if not dynamically configured):

  • Serial port baud rate:

  • Serial port data bits:

  • Serial port parity:

  • Serial port stop bits:

• Do you want to set up an RSC user account during installation? (y|n):

• If you will set up an RSC user account during installation:

  • Account username:

  • Permission level for the user: (c, u, a, r, none):

  • Account password:

    See Chapter 4 of the RSC User's Guide for information about account usernames, permissions, and passwords.

After you have written down this information, you can refer to it when you configure RSC software on the server. If some of this information is not available yet or changes, you can use RSC interfaces or the rscadm utility to change the configuration after installation.