Sun Microsystems, Inc.
•Three USB connections to the NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 to provide remote keyboard, mouse,
and storage functionality.
•LPC connection to the NVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 via FPGA.
•10/100 MB Ethernet connected to the onboard Broadcom BCM5221 10/100 Ethernet controller, which
automatically detects straight or cross-over Ethernet cables.
•External serial port multiplexed with the main system serial port for access to the ILOM CLI and system
console using serial port redirection (S-o-L Serial-over-LAN).
Figure 6-1: ILOM Daughtercard
ILOM Software
ILOM is an IPMI 2.0-compliant Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) that implements Lights Out
Management (LOM), including “Remote Keyboard, Video, Mouse, and Storage” (KVMS), a Web management
interface, a command line interface (CLI), and SNMP. ILOM software includes the following:
•Embedded, hardened Linux OS
•IPMI 2.0 BMC
•Platform Control agents diagnostics software
•RKVMS
The ILOM and BIOS firmware are easily upgraded using a single 11 MB file to upgrade both. The firmware
upgrade can be performed either by command line interface or Web interface.
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