SUMMARY: V440 ALOM Console redirect failing

Hi all - sorry for the delay in posting. To summarise, the solution to 
this problem came about after lots of head-scratching by both Sun 
Support and myself.

The solution was to swap out the system board and ALOM card for new 
models, and now it "just works". Whether it was a system board issue or 
not is anyone's guess. We have made no further changes.

output-device=ttya
input-device=ttya

Hope this can come in useful for somebody!

Sam

Sam Nelson wrote:
> Here's an update to my original query; many thanks to all those who 
> responded;
> 
> Gary Paveza, Paul Lyons suggested:
> output-device=rsc-console
> input-device=rsc-console
> 
> Andrew Everitt, SimonB, Grzegorz Bakalarski suggested:
> # console -f
> 
> I tried these, unfortunately it's been no joy so far. Sun have since 
> replaced the card, and I've upgraded to ALOM 1.5.4 and the latest OBP level.
> 
> Rachel Polanskis might yet be my saviour; she had a similar issue and 
> the following fixed it:
> 
> output-device=rsc-console
> input-device=rsc-console
> *poweroff
> *bootmode -u normal (from LOM)
> *poweron
> 
> I'm waiting until my next downtime window, hopefully this will work, and 
> I'll summarize.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sam Nelson wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Quick query; I've got 1 hour left to figure this out or abort :)
>>
>> We have a V440 which I'm attempting to configure up to use ALOM. I can 
>> connect to the ALOM card no problem, and get to the "sc>" prompt fine.
>>
>> When I type "console" to get to the console, I just get nothing however; 
>> I can't input anything and nothing is coming back in my direction either.
>>
>> I thought this would be a console redirect issue, so I've set:
>>
>> output-device=ttya
>> input-device=ttya
>>
>> as per Sun docs, and powered off, then on, but the same thing happens - 
>> I can get to the sc prompt but not into console mode.
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious here? Here's my showsc output:
>>
>> sc> showsc -v
>> Advanced Lights Out Manager v1.5.2
>>
>> 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             0.0.0.0
>> netsc_ipnetmask          255.255.255.0
>> netsc_ipgateway          0.0.0.0
>> mgt_mailhost
>> mgt_mailalert
>> sc_customerinfo
>> sc_escapechars           #.
>> sc_powerondelay          false
>> 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
>>
>> If I can't get this to work the thing is being ripped out and I'll use 
>> TTYB :) Of course I'll summarize.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Sam
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