I've installed Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 on a Sun Fire V490 Server via its external Serial Port using a Cisco Console Cable connected to my Laptop PC running SecureCRT terminal emulation software emulating VT100 Terminal.
The Sun Fire V490 server has two on-board Ethernet interfaces, which reside on the system centerplane and conform to the IEEE 802.3z Ethernet standard.
Q1. During the installation of the Solaris 10 1/13 OS, I configured the primary on-board Ethernet interface with an IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS Server IP Addresses, and it seems it was configured successfully but I can't ping this primary interface, ce0, from other nodes on the network. When I ping it from the Sun Fire V490, I get " Port is Active." Also, see the CLI outputs below. Do I need to configure anything else on the server in order to be able to ping it?
Q2. I need to transfer some .tar and .tar.gz scripts from my Laptop PC to the Sun Fire V490 Server and place them in a temporary directory and then un-tar /unzip and execute them to load some applications on the Server. The Sun Fire V490 has a built in CD ROM [ DVD Drive ] and I burned my scripts on a blank DVD-R disk and placed it in the CD ROM and tried to transfer them over to the Server without much success. Can someone show me the CLI commands in Solaris 10 1/13 to accomplish this task?
Q3. In order to bring up the GUI on Solaris 10, I connected a generic monitor, keyboard and mouse to the SUN Fire V490, but the monitor displays "no DVI" / "no VGA" signal from the Server and hence nothing is displayed on the monitor. Do I need to connect a SUN-compatible Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse to the Server in order to see any output on the monitor? Do I need to configure Solaris 10 from the CLI prompt # for the ROOT to enable the monitor, keyboard and mouse?
Please note that I connect to this Server via its external serial port as mentioned above at the present time and login to it as ROOT.
From the information that you have provided, the network cable seems to be connected into the wrong network interface - ce5 instead of ce0.
The correct port should be the lower of the two ports (ce0 and ce1), these are located on the rear panel step immediately above the serial management port.
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Current System:
Solaris 7 running IPlannet 4.1:
Upgrade (Preserving current data) to:
Solaris 9 running Sun ONE Web Server 6.1
Has anyone... (0 Replies)