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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Solaris: Not able to access E2900 console Post 302743927 by Yeaboem on Thursday 13th of December 2012 02:47:14 PM
Old 12-13-2012
your worst case scenario is the SC card has failed or lost it's network configuration and you'll have to walk the
Quote:
"Onsite guy is technically not so strong who can connect laptop via serial port."
through the procedure to confirm/correct the SC network configuration via serial port.

I agree with others here.. I'd verify the network switch is not failing the auto-negotiation dance and just lock the port at 10-full (or 100-full, if you're sure the E2900 supports it), and also try your cable into a known-working switch port. I hate to say it, but I suspect it is the case that your SC has failed or lost it's network configuration.
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sysmsg(7D)                                                            Devices                                                           sysmsg(7D)

NAME
sysmsg - system message routing to console devices SYNOPSIS
/dev/sysmsg DESCRIPTION
The file /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices. Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console /dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M). Only root has permission to write to this device. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Stable | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D) SunOS 5.10 13 Oct 1998 sysmsg(7D)
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