Sun Microsystems X4200 M2, X4100 M2 manual A web-based graphical interface

ILOM consists of four components, three of which are on your host server and one that is on the client system that accesses your host server. The four components are as follows:

■ILOM SP hardware. Your server is equipped with a Graphics Redirect and Service Processor (GRASP) board that performs the following functions:

■Monitors the status and configuration of field-replaceable components of your server, such as fans, disk drives, and power supplies.

■Provides serial and Ethernet connections to external terminals or local area networks (LANs).

■ILOM SP firmware. Preinstalled on the GRASP board is a library of system management firmware applications. This ILOM firmware is operating system independent. These firmware applications provide the following system management interfaces into your server:

■A web-based graphical interface

■A Secure Shell (SSH) command-line interface

■An IPMI v2.0 command interface

■A Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1, v2c, or v3 interface

These interfaces call the same underlying system management functions on your GRASP board, so you can choose to work with one or more of these ILOM interfaces to integrate with the other management interfaces running in your data center.

■Remote Console application. The Remote Console application allows remote clients to view the graphical console of your host server as though they were directly attached to its video connector. The Remote Console is a mirror of the 1024x768 output from the server’s VGA video connector. The remote keyboard, mouse, CD drive, or diskette drive will appear as standard USB devices.

Note – The Remote Console application is not required on the client systems, but a web browser and Sun Java™ runtime environment version 5.0 or later are required on the client systems. You can download Java free from http://java.sun.com.

■Client-side Secure Shell application. To access the ILOM SP through a remote Secure Shell (SSH), you must install a Secure Shell communications application on the remote client system (server, workstation, or laptop). Many Secure Shell communications applications are available from commercial or open-source distribution. Refer to http://www.openssh.org for information about open- source client-side SSH applications.

Sun Microsystems™ has configured the ILOM hardware and firmware on your server to reflect the most common default settings used in the field. It is unlikely that you will need to change these defaults.

20 Sun Fire X4100/X4100 M2 and X4200/X4200 M2 Servers Installation Guide • May 2007