Solaris

Maybe I'm not searching on the right keywords?

I have an avocent console access server, and would like to hook up a new solaris server to it, for console access to the solaris. I can't quite figure out *where* to put in the console port settings on the solaris server's side. I'm also not sure if I need to configure the boot process to enable it (or enable the correct one, com1 or com2) as well.

Seems like this would be something covered somewhere, and I'm sure it is, but googling generally and here in the forum specifically seem to bring up not-quite-the-same setups.

Thanks for any help or pointers!
--Cindy

Older servers that are headless will try to use the serial ports. Newer servers will have a *LOM port of some kind, you should be able to use that. Just make sure you have the right adapter for your Avocent box (they sell them). In some cases on Solaris 10 (for example) on x86 (no LOM) hardware you might have to do something like:

* Tell your server to output serial messages to the serial port at 115200 baud
* Then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst on you Solaris host to contain:

kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot -B console=ttya,ttya-mode="115200,8,n,1,-"

* run eeprom console=ttya (or change that value in /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc)
* run eeprom ttya-mode='115200,8,n,-' (or change that value in /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc)
* change the line console:9600 hupcl opost onlcr:9600::console to read console:115200 hupcl opost onlcr:115200::console in /etc/ttydefs

That's from a write up I did on our intranet some time ago... hope it helps.