Sun Microsystems 280R manual Using the Sun Remote System Control RSC Card

Using the Sun Remote System Control (RSC) Card

The Sun Remote System Control (RSC) card is an integrated hardware card that supports a system management console and a diagnostics and administrative software package for the Sun Fire 280R and other workgroup servers. The card supports the console through either or both an Ethernet port and a modem.

With the RSC card in the Sun Fire 280R server, the Sun Management Center and all other supported Solaris 8 software can now monitor multiple Sun servers and systems, devices, and network resources from a single system. The RSC hardware and software extend the server’s available RAS features to the network. You can install the RSC software from the Solaris Supplement CD.

From a remote host command-line interface (CLI), you can log in to the card (using telnet or the modem line) and execute commands that remotely control the host server. The next figure shows how the RSC card and its software in the local server extend the available monitoring, control, diagnostic, and remote notification features, making them available to a system manager working on a remote system.

In addition, RSC provides both a graphical user interface (GUI) as well as its own CLI. The RSC GUI is available to users of:

■Solaris 8 Operating Environment and later compatible software

■Windows 95 operating environment

■Windows 98 operating environment

■Windows NT Workstation operating environment

RSC features include:

■Remote system monitoring and error reporting, including output from power-on self-test (POST) and OpenBoot Diagnostics and the kadb kernel debugger

■Remote server reboot, power-on, and power-off on demand

■Ability to monitor the CPU temperature and fan sensors without being near the managed server, even when the server is offline

■Ability to run diagnostic tests from a remote console

■Remote event notification of server problems

■A detailed log of RSC events

■Remote console functions on both the modem and Ethernet ports

For a more complete list of features in the RSC software, see “About the Remote System Control (RSC) Software” on page 110. For additional information about RSC software, see http://www.sun.com/servers/rsc.html.

For more information about the RSC hardware, see “About the Remote System Control (RSC) Card and Ports” on page 107.

74 Sun Fire 280R Server Owner’s Guide • January 2001