Základní info
The Sun Fire Midrange Server Maintenance course provides students with the information needed to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the Sun Fire V1280/E2900, 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 midrange servers. Additionally, students remove and replace system components, and troubleshoot common hardware and firmware issues. Students who can benefit from this course:Field Engineers, Senior Service Providers, Senior Systems Engineers, System Maintainers, and anyone responsible for self maintaining midrange servers
Vstupní předpoklady:
- Solaris 10 Operating System Essentials (SA-100-S10)
- Sun Desktop Systems Maintenance (SM-210)
- Systems Management Using Sun Management Center 3.6 (ES-426)
- Knowledge of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and U
- Knowledge of network administration
- Experience with system hardware replacement
Co se u nás naučíte:
- Set up and configure the system controller and navigate platform and domain shells
- Perform common administrative and maintenance tasks at the platform and domain levels
- Identify, describe, remove, and replace field-replaceable units (FRUs)
- Troubleshoot common faults in Sun Fire midrange servers
Osnova:
Introducing the Sun Fire Midrange Servers
- List the server models that comprise the Sun Fire midrange server product line
- Identify the input and output (I/O) components that the Sun Fire Midrange servers support
- Describe the key features of each Sun Fire midrange server model
- Power on and off each Sun Fire midrange server
Field-Replaceable Units
- Describe the various administrative and service layers on the Sun Fire midrange server products
- Describe the Sun Fire midrange server FRU strategy
- Locate and describe the function of the system boards, controller boards, I/O boards, baseplane, and centerplane
- Locate and describe the function of the Sun Fire midrange server Sun Fireplane switchboards
- Locate and describe the function of the Sun Fire midrange server AC and DC power distribution FRUs
- Locate and describe the function of the Sun Fire midrange server fan tray assemblies
- Locate and describe the function of the FrameManager
- Install and administer the console
Platform Assessment and Management
- Perform user maintenance and administrative functions using the Lights-Out Management (LOM) shell
- Describe three methods you can use to connect to the system controller shells
- Describe how to use system controller commands to monitor platforms and domains
- Describe how to update the platform firmware
- Describe how to start, stop, and power-cycle domains
- Describe how to perform device configuration with OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM) to add or remove devices from a Sun Fire midrange server
- Describe how to use OpenBoot PROM to represent interconnected buses and their devices in a device tree
- Describe how to map Sun Fire midrange server physical devices
Troubleshooting the Sun Fire Midrange Servers
- Describe how Sun Fire midrange servers use PCI and cPCI I/O assemblies
- Describe how the Sun Fireplane interconnect plane is the main system bus of the Sun Fire family of servers
- Describe the troubleshooting methodology for fault analysis and diagnosis of failed components
- Describe the testing tools available for isolating faults in the Sun Fire midrange servers
- Describe how Sun Fire midrange server subsystems can use error correcting code (ECC) to recover from errors
- Describe how console port error messages are reported to help isolate faulty components in the console bus hub (CBH)
- Describe how domain shell operating messages provide an aid to troubleshooting a system error in Sun Fire midrange servers
- Recover from a hung domain
