Category: Console Access

Send Break on XSCF – Sun M5000 Servers

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From our last post about XSCF Cheat sheet, we put there some commands on an XSCF management interface card. I thought that was the most common one, but we forgot to put in how to send ‘break’ to the host console! :)

Here’s how:

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XSCF Console Command Cheat sheet

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Here are a couple of commands for the XSCF console specifics for the M-series servers of Sun. There are ’stolen’ from Review Ninja plus more! Thanks Jon!

To Connect to a domain
XSCF> console -d

To Show status of a domain
XSCF> showdomainstatus -d


XSCF> showdomainstatus
Invalid parameter.
usage : showdomainstatus -a
showdomainstatus -d domain_id
showdomainstatus -h
XSCF> showdomainstatus -a
DID Domain Status
00 Running
01 Running
02 Running
03 Running
04 -

To displays the domain information specified for a system board.
XSCF> showdevices

To displays the temperature, humidity, voltage, and fan rotation speed.
XSCF> showenvironment

To lists degraded components.
XSCF> showstatus

To displays users who login to the XSCF.
XSCF> who

To reset domain there are 3 modes for reset command

* por: Domain system reset
* request: Domain panic instruction
* xir: Domain CPU reset

XSCF> reset -d domainhere por

To power on/off all domain or sepcified domain
XSCF> poweron
XSCF> poweroff

Remember you can always use –help on every command to see what are teh available switched and options for it.

To logout of XSCF> type exit
To return to XSCF from a domain terminal type #.

Hope this help.

More command from Sun:

http://docs.sun.com/source/819-6202-15/21ch5p.html#50643019_96753