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Pete

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Aug 23, 2004, 3:02:42 PM8/23/04
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Hi all,

Just a daft question: On the sunfire v210 server, if there is a power
outage, will the server boot up again automatically when the juice
comes back on.

Had an a conversation with a customer at a remote site, and he was
sure it just sat at the ALO prompt, and had to issue a "boot" via
serial terminal to get the system going again.

Is this kind of info listed anywhere? I had a quick shufty on
docs.sun.com but nothing sprang up.

TIA.

P.

Chris Lawson

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Aug 23, 2004, 3:51:09 PM8/23/04
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Pete wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a daft question: On the sunfire v210 server, if there is a power
> outage, will the server boot up again automatically when the juice
> comes back on.

ALOM has some power state logic that will power system on when the
'juice' returns if the system was previously powered on. It will remain
off if the system was off when the power was removed.


>
> Had an a conversation with a customer at a remote site, and he was
> sure it just sat at the ALO prompt, and had to issue a "boot" via
> serial terminal to get the system going again.

This sounds like an OBP parameters issue. You need
auto-boot?=true
boot-command=boot
and boot-device or diag-device to the boot device


>
> Is this kind of info listed anywhere? I had a quick shufty on
> docs.sun.com but nothing sprang up.

It's hidden somewhere. ;-)

Dave Uhring

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Aug 23, 2004, 4:15:24 PM8/23/04
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:51:09 +0100, Chris Lawson wrote:

> Pete wrote:

>> Is this kind of info listed anywhere? I had a quick shufty on
>> docs.sun.com but nothing sprang up.
>
> It's hidden somewhere. ;-)

At Sunsolve:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/OBP.html

Jorgen Moquist

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Aug 23, 2004, 7:06:24 PM8/23/04
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Hi i have the same problem on my v210's
the OBP settings and ALOM/LOM is as below.
cant figure out why its not booting after power outage ?
/Jörgen

--------------------------------------------------------------
s893x console login:
Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

s893x: eeprom
test-args: data not available.
diag-passes=1
asr-policy=normal
local-mac-address?=true
fcode-debug?=false
silent-mode?=false
scsi-initiator-id=7
oem-logo: data not available.
oem-logo?=false
oem-banner: data not available.
oem-banner?=false
ansi-terminal?=true
screen-#columns=80
screen-#rows=34
ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false
ttyb-ignore-cd=true
ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
ttya-ignore-cd=true
ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
output-device=ttya
input-device=ttya
auto-boot-on-error?=false
load-base=16384
auto-boot?=true
boot-command=boot
diag-file: data not available.
diag-device=disk0:a
boot-file: data not available.
boot-device=disk0:a
use-nvramrc?=false
nvramrc: data not available.
security-mode=none
security-password: data not available.
security-#badlogins=0
post-trigger=power-on-reset
diag-script=none
diag-level=min
diag-switch?=false
obdiag-trigger=power-on-reset
error-reset-recovery=boot

LOM: Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.3 (s893x)

sc> showenvironment


=============== Environmental Status ===============


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
System Temperatures (Temperatures in Celsius):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sensor Status Temp LowHard LowSoft LowWarn HighWarn HighSoft
HighHard
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MB.P0.T_CORE OK 52 -- -- -- 110 115
118
MB.T_ENC OK 20 -6 -3 5 40 48
51

--------------------------------------
Front Status Panel:
--------------------------------------
Keyswitch position: NORMAL

--------------------------------------------------------
System Indicator Status:
--------------------------------------------------------
MB.LOCATE MB.SERVICE MB.ACT
--------------------------------------------------------
OFF OFF ON

--------------------------------------------
System Disks:
--------------------------------------------
Disk Status Service OK2RM
--------------------------------------------
HDD0 OK OFF OFF
HDD1 NOT PRESENT OFF OFF

----------------------------------------------------------
Fans (Speeds Revolution Per Minute):
----------------------------------------------------------
Sensor Status Speed Warn Low
----------------------------------------------------------
F0.RS OK 10887 -- 1000
F1.RS OK 10714 -- 1000
F2.RS OK 10546 -- 1000
F3.RS OK 10227 -- 1000
MB.P0.F0.RS OK 16071 2000 2000
MB.P0.F1.RS OK 15697 2000 2000

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Voltage sensors (in Volts):
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sensor Status Voltage LowSoft LowWarn HighWarn HighSoft
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MB.P0.V_CORE OK 1.46 -- 1.26 1.54 --
MB.P1.V_CORE OK 1.42 -- 1.26 1.54 --
MB.V_VTT OK 1.29 -- 1.17 1.43 --
MB.V_GBE_+2V5 OK 2.50 -- 2.25 2.75 --
MB.V_GBE_CORE OK 1.20 -- 1.08 1.32 --
MB.V_VCCTM OK 2.53 -- 2.25 2.75 --
MB.V_+2V5 OK 2.60 -- 2.34 2.86 --
MB.V_+1V5 OK 1.52 -- 1.35 1.65 --
MB.BAT.V_BAT OK 2.95 -- 2.70 -- --

--------------------------------------------
Power Supply Indicators:
--------------------------------------------
Supply Active Service OK-to-Remove
--------------------------------------------
PS0 ON OFF OFF

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Power Supplies:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Supply Status Underspeed Overtemp Overvolt Undervolt
Overcurrent
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PS0 OK OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF

----------------------
Current sensors:
----------------------
Sensor Status
----------------------
MB.FF_SCSI OK

sc>

Pete

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Aug 24, 2004, 4:58:53 AM8/24/04
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> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/OBP.html

Chris, Dave - thanks guys!

P.

Scott Howard

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Aug 24, 2004, 5:18:27 AM8/24/04
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Jorgen Moquist <jorgen....@nospam.mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
> Hi i have the same problem on my v210's
> the OBP settings and ALOM/LOM is as below.
> cant figure out why its not booting after power outage ?

Does it not boot (ie, drops to OBP), or not power on at all?
If it doesn't power on, can you just run "poweron" from the ALOM to fix it,
or do you need to use the controls on the front of the machine?
How old is the V210?

Scott

Jorgen Moquist

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Aug 27, 2004, 4:02:58 PM8/27/04
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i found the problem the LOM variable "sc_powerstatememory" was set to false.
and power is ofcourse always off in any situation,
# /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm set sc_powerstatememory true
fixed my situation.
strange that SUN delivers these V210's with an not wanted setup ?
/Jörgen
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