Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 M2 - Manual (Page 28)

20 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Installation Guide • October 2006
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 is a piece of
layered software that allows remote clients to view the graphical console of your
host server as though they were directly attached 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 for 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.