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Hardware-assisted cryptography, Remote manageability with alom cmt – FUJITSU T2000 User Manual

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SPARC Enterprise T2000 Server Overview Guide • April 2007

Hardware-Assisted Cryptography

The UltraSPARC T1 multicore processor provides hardware-assisted acceleration of
RSA and DSA cryptographic operations. The Solaris 10 Operating System provides
the multithreaded device driver (ncp device driver) that supports the hardware-
assisted cryptography.

Remote Manageability With ALOM CMT

The Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM CMT) feature is a system controller
that enables you to remotely manage and administer the SPARC Enterprise T2000
server.

The ALOM CMT software is preinstalled as firmware, and initializes as soon as you
apply power to the system. You can customize ALOM CMT to work with your
particular installation.

ALOM CMT enables you to monitor and control your server over a network, or by
using a dedicated serial port for connection to a terminal or terminal server. ALOM
CMT provides a command-line interface that you can use to remotely administer
geographically distributed or physically inaccessible machines. In addition, ALOM
CMT enables you to run diagnostics (such as POST) remotely that would otherwise
require physical proximity to the server’s serial port.

You can configure ALOM CMT to send email alerts of hardware failures, hardware
warnings, and other events related to the server or to ALOM CMT. The ALOM CMT
circuitry runs independently of the server, using the server’s standby power.
Therefore, ALOM CMT firmware and software continue to function when the server
operating system goes offline or when the server is powered off. ALOM CMT
monitors the following SPARC Enterprise T2000 server components:

CPU temperature conditions

Disk drive status

Enclosure thermal conditions

Fan speed and status

Power supply status

Voltage conditions

For information about configuring and using the ALOM system controller, refer to
the Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM) CMT Guide.