Accessing the SunFire V100 LOM Serial Console

Unlike traditional “Intel” or PC based servers (HP Proliant, IBM xSeries, Dell PowerEdge, etc.) the SUN SunFire is a RISC server and does not use keyboard, mouse or monitor ports with which to interact with the server. Interactions traditionally takes place through the integrated Lights Out Management, or LOM, port which provides, in addition to …

September 11, 2007: Basic Instructions

The incredible rains returned again today. Today they didn’t begin until almost noon although there was some amount of rain all night causing light flooding around Newark on my drive into the office. At two thirty this morning the smoke detectors in Dominica and my apartment went off because of the incredible humidity. Of course …