Managing Sun Systems - Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager

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Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is the leading Service Processor (SP) architecture available across both Sun x64 and Sun Cool Threads SPARC servers, Sun Server blades and blade chassis. Drawing on and leveraging Sun's extensive experience in managing and monitoring systems in enterprise environments, ILOM delivers fully featured rich control of the systems, locally and remotely, ensuring there is a powerful management and monitoring solution to meet the diverse requirements of all data center users. A complete implementation of ILOM is included at no additional cost with all ILOM-based systems. Everything is standard.

Strong support for mainstream Systems Management protocols and open standards ensures ILOM integrates simply and easily with leading System Management platforms such as Sun xVM Ops Center and popular 3rd party management and monitoring frameworks.

ILOM is embedded into new Sun platforms, and comes complete with network and serial ports to provide rich and secure out of band remote management and configuration. In addition ILOM is accessible directly from mainstream host operating environments including Sun Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows.


Features

  • Full Out of band management 'Just like being there'
  • Accessible from the host operating system
  • Remote Keyboard, Video & Mouse (KVM)
  • Remote media capability (boot from internal media, CD, DVD local or
    remote including .iso images)
  • Rich standards support
    • IPMI 2.0
    • SNMP V1, V2c, V3
    • SSH 2.0
  • ALOM Compatibility mode (for Cool Threads platforms)
  • LDAP, Radius and Microsoft Active Directory Support
  • Email/SMTP alerts, fully configurable remote syslog
  • System serial console redirection via serial port & LAN

Functions Performed by ILOM

  • Remote Hardware Monitoring
  • Monitor System Status and event logs
  • Error and Fault Management
  • Environmental and Power reporting
  • Alerting
  • Indicators - Manage fault LEDs
  • SNMP Traps, IPMI PETS, notifications
  • Hardware inventory & status
  • NIC Card MAC addresses
  • Access to system part numbers, versions and serial numbers
  • Auditing of ILOM users, and management user accounts including access
    right control
  • Monitor system BIOS/POST and sensors

Supported Platforms Include

  • Sun Fire X2250 and X2270
  • All Sun Fire X4000 Series platforms
  • SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5140, T5240, T5440
  • Sun Blade 6000/6048 chassis and blades except T6300
  • Sun Blade 8000/8000P chassis and blades

Screenshots of ILOM

Checking the SP Firmware level

Browsing the sensor reading via ILOM


Resources

ILOM 2 Manual - html | pdf
ILOM 1 Manual - html | pdf
ELOM Manual - html
ALOM manual - html | pdf
ILOM BigAdmin Overview - html | pdf

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