Before you begin, What to do – Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V490 User Manual

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Sun Fire V490 Server Administration Guide • August 2004

How to View and Set OpenBoot
Configuration Variables

Switches and diagnostic configuration variables stored by the system firmware
determine how and when power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics and OpenBoot
Diagnostics tests are performed. This section explains how to access and modify
OpenBoot configuration variables. For a list of important OpenBoot configuration
variables, see

TABLE 6-2

.

Before You Begin

Halt the server to reach the ok prompt. See:

“About the ok Prompt” on page 49

What to Do

To display the current values of all OpenBoot configuration variables, use the
printenv

command.

The following example shows a short excerpt of this command’s output.

To set or change the value of an OpenBoot configuration variable, use the setenv
command:

ok printenv

Variable Name

Value

Default Value

diag-level min max

diag-switch? false false

ok setenv diag-level max

diag-level = max

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