Re: Remote administration of a 2-node sun cluster running Solaris 5.8

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 01/31/05

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    On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, mario wrote:

    > sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire 3800 Cluster

    IIRC, those servers have LOM, which is more sophisticated than
    the regular (low end) serial console. You can connect to LOM
    using a network connetcion or a serial one (I think). You can
    also power cycle the machine, something that can't be done from
    a plain ole serial console. 

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