Category: ALOM

ALOM – SC Alert: Failed to send email alert for recent event

When I was in the ALOM prompt I received the following error message

sc>
SC Alert: Failed to send email alert for recent event.

This ALOM card was set up to send emails but it was not configured to send the email to any particular host

sc> showsc
Advanced Lights Out Manager v1.5.4
parameter value
——— —–
if_network true
if_modem false
if_emailalerts true
sys_autorestart xir
sys_bootrestart none
sys_bootfailrecovery none
sys_maxbootfail 3
sys_xirtimeout 900
sys_boottimeout 900
sys_wdttimeout 60
netsc_tpelinktest true
netsc_dhcp false
netsc_ipaddr 148.95.150.176
netsc_ipnetmask 255.255.255.0
netsc_ipgateway 148.95.150.1
mgt_mailhost
mgt_mailalert
sc_customerinfo
sc_escapechars #.
sc_powerondelay true
sc_powerstatememory false
sc_clipasswdecho true
sc_cliprompt sc
sc_clitimeout 0
sc_clieventlevel 2
sc_backupuserdata true
sys_eventlevel 2
ser_baudrate 9600
ser_parity none
ser_stopbits 1
ser_data 8
netsc_enetaddr 00:03:ba:a3:3d:c4
sys_hostname solaris9
sys_enetaddr 00:03:ba:a3:3d:bb

To set the if_emailalerts property to false, I typed the command below

sc> setsc if_emailalerts false

sc> showsc
Advanced Lights Out Manager v1.5.4
parameter value
——— —–
if_network true
if_modem false
if_emailalerts false
sys_autorestart xir
sys_bootrestart none
sys_bootfailrecovery none
sys_maxbootfail 3
sys_xirtimeout 900
sys_boottimeout 900
sys_wdttimeout 60
netsc_tpelinktest true
netsc_dhcp false
netsc_ipaddr 148.95.150.176
netsc_ipnetmask 255.255.255.0
netsc_ipgateway 148.95.150.1
mgt_mailhost
mgt_mailalert
sc_customerinfo
sc_escapechars #.
sc_powerondelay true
sc_powerstatememory false
sc_clipasswdecho true
sc_cliprompt sc
sc_clitimeout 0
sc_clieventlevel 2
sc_backupuserdata true
sys_eventlevel 2
ser_baudrate 9600
ser_parity none
ser_stopbits 1
ser_data 8
netsc_enetaddr 00:03:ba:a3:3d:c4
sys_hostname solaris9
sys_enetaddr 00:03:ba:a3:3d:bb

And no more related error messages was shown after this

Resetting a RSC / ALOM Card from Solaris

Here an RSC card wasn’t responding so my colleague decided to reboot the card.

root@solaris9:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm shownetwork
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding~

When you pass the flag -s you try a soft reset in the card.

root@solaris9:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm resetrsc -s
Are you sure you want to reboot RSC (y/n)? y
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding

Here is the how to perform the hard reset

root@solaris9:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm resetrsc
Are you sure you want to reboot RSC (y/n)? y

If you need to reset the ALOM card, use scadm with the same parameters as above

root@solaris9:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm resetrsc -s

Unfortunately, resetting the card didn’t solve the problem.

How to change the password for the Sun RSC / ALOM

Using the command rscadm or scadm previously covered in this page you pass the argument userpassword <username>.

root@localhost:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm usershow

username permissions password
——– ———– ——–
admin cuar Assigned

root@localhost:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm userpassword admin
Password:
Re-enter Password:

root@localhost:/ #

How to access the Baseboard Management Controller on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000

There is no way to access the BMC from Solaris using the servers Sun Fire T1000 and T2000. Sun is planning a scadm command to use with these CMT servers but until they release it you’ll need to run SUNWexplorer with a special parameter.

root@sunt2000 # /opt/SUNWexplo/bin/explorer -w Tx000

After the SUNWexplorer completes the gathering of your server configuration, go to /opt/SUNWexplo/output/<explorer filename>/Tx000 and check for the file you’re looking for more information. It has several information about your System Controller.

If you’re looking for a way to reset the ALOM password without powering down the server, it won’t be possible. You can follow these steps to recover TX000 ALOM Passwords

How to access the Baseboard Management Controller on Sun servers

I was looking a way to access the SC within Solaris and I found that there is three commands to do it. They are: rscadm , scadm and lom. It depends of which server do you have and which software is providing the lights out management.

Here is a list of servers and their respective lights out management software – not sure if all lights out software can be used with rscadm, scadm or lom:

LOM

Sun Netra X1
Sun Netra T1400/1405
Sun Netra T1 AC200
Sun Netra T1 DC200
Sun Fire V100
Sun Fire V120
Sun Fire E2900
Sun Netra 20
Sun Fire V1280

ALOM – Advanced Lights Out Manager

Sun Fire V125
Sun Fire V210
Sun Fire V215
Sun Fire V240
Sun Fire V245
Sun Fire V250
Sun Fire V440
Sun Fire V445

ALOM4v – Advanced Lights Out Manager

Sun Fire T1000
Sun Fire T2000
Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000
Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000
Sun Netra T2000

ILOM – Integrated Lights Out Manager

Sun Fire X4100
Sun Fire X4200
Sun Fire X4500
Sun Fire X4600
Sun Fire X4100 M2
Sun Fire X4200 M2
Sun Fire X4600 M2
Sun Blade 6000
Sun Blade 8000
Sun Netra X4200 M2
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220

ELOM – Embedded Lights Out Management

Sun Fire X2100 M2
Sun Fire X2200 M2

RSC – Remote System Control

Sun Fire V890
Sun Fire V490
Sun Fire V880
Sun Fire V480
Sun Fire 280R
Sun Enterprise 250

Sun Fire V20z
Sun Fire V40z

Here is an example to show the network settings using rscadm:

root@localhost:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/rsc/rscadm shownetwork
IP Address: 192.168.2.74
Gateway address: 192.168.2.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:8c:55:73

And with scadm:

root@localhost:/ # /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin/scadm shownetwork
IP Address: 192.168.2.3
Gateway address: 192.168.2.1
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Ethernet address: 00:14:4f:2b:90:09

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