First many thanks to Craig Scott and Sean Berry While I was waiting for help and being the impatient and single threaded person I am, when confronted with a challenge, the light bulb went off and I decided to try ttyb. It worked just fine, so something must be different with a Sun Fire 208R ttya. However both Craig and Sean suggested I try ttyb and pointed out that ttya was my console port and I probable didn't want to use it for a UPS. Following are their actual responses, thanks guys I really appreciated it. Craig Scott Do you have a graphics card in your 280R and a keyboard and mouse attached? If not the 280R will attempt to use /dev/ttya as the serial console on boot. Maybe better to use /dev/ttyb for powerchute. Not 100% sure but if you use ttya for powerchute and in doing so disable the port you won't be able to attach a serial console to server in the event of a graphics card failure or a boot failure where you need to start the server with the key in diagnostics mode where all output is sent to ttya. Sean Berry said ttya is probably your console port. can you use ttyb? :) Original question Hi Gurus Is their something special about the serial port on a Sun Fire 280R? I am trying to install APC PowerChute software and step one is to disable the serial port. I used admintool to disable serial port ttya on our Sun Fire 280R. The serial port is disabled, and set to these options, Initialize Only, Software Carrier and created utmp Entry. This setup is the same as our E250 which is working. When I installed the software I received the below message WARNING: Could not communicate with device on /dev/ttya. Check that the communications cable is attached properly to both the device and the serial port. ?---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: Though the PowerChute Plus for UNIX installation is complete, if you quit before verifying communications, the application may not work properly ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you wish to Exit or Retry communications? [R/E] I have tried everything I know Also, now when I boot the system with the cable connect to the UPS, it appears to come up, however I nothing appears on my console. Which is part of a KVM switch, but that should matter. I must have changed something as it booted fine with the cable connected when I installed the software. I have searched the archives, google and also opened a ticket with APC but still can't seem to get this to work. Any help would be appreciated and I will summarize Thanks in advance ===== Kathy Ange Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Information Systems (804) 786-1340 Voice Mail (804) 786-2110 FAX Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Apr 16 15:50:08 2002
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