Siemens T1000 Configuring the System Console, Communicating With the System

CHAPTER 1

Configuring the System Console

This chapter explains what the system console is, describes the different ways of configuring it on your server, and helps you understand its relation to the system controller.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

■“Communicating With the System” on page 1

■“Accessing the System Controller” on page 6

■“Switching Between the System Controller Prompt and the System Console” on page 15

■“ALOM CMT and The sc> Prompt” on page 16

■“OpenBoot ok Prompt” on page 18

■“System Console OpenBoot Configuration Variable Settings” on page 23

Communicating With the System

To install your system software or to diagnose problems, you need some way to interact at a low level with the system. The system console is the facility for doing this. You use the system console to view messages and issue commands. There can be only one system console per computer.

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