Solaris

I believe the explanations above are pretty good. You need to get a terminal program and a working serial connection to the server. I use a PC, putty and a usb to serial adapter. I have a Mac as well, but it's for personal use. If I really wanted to do it on my Mac I'd just dual boot into Windows 7 and go from there.

These things aren't easy, there's a reason why Unix Admin are well compensated.

You are on the right track but your MAC based terminal emulator is not seeing the USB to serial adapter so isn't offering you that serial connection option. (The two bluetooth options are coming from the inbuilt MAC bluetooth adapter I guess.)

I'm not a MAC expert. We need DukeNuke2 to contribute here because he said that he uses MAC terminal emulation all the time.

However, things are going in the right direction.

DukeNuke2 will see this and the previous posts so hopefully will respond.
Let's wait and see.

I guess i was lucky pickin out a working usb-to-serial adapter... I bought this one:

Sitecom - CN-104 - USB to Serial Cable 0,6m

about a year ago and it is working fine on my Mac and is also fine on my Toshiba with Solaris 11.1 installed on it.

try to run "sudo dmesg" before and after you plug in the adapter and see if it get recognized by your mac. maybe you can download software/drivers for your adapter?

sorry to intrude, does it mean that "72-3383-01 Cisco Rollover Console Cable" can be used to connect PC RS-232 to 'Serial MGT' on Sun Fire ?

thanks.

@orange47...sorry to be terse (answering via mobile).
Answer is yes.

@danijeljames......how are you getting along with your problem?

Just reading your posts again I note that the photo you posted was of the 'NET Mgt' port. You should be connecting to the 'SER Mgt' port.
Don't be confused by the fact that the port is RJ45. It is really just a RS-232 port but Sun put it on a RJ45. It's not a ethernet port.

The 'NET Mgt' port is an ethernet port and you can't use that until it's configured with ip address, etc.