Ilom – FUJITSU T5140 User Manual

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SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers Administration Guide • February 2008

You can also use the system Power button to initiate a graceful system shutdown.

ILOM set /HOST send_break_action=break,
start /SP/console

Commands, or Break Key

When it is impossible or impractical to shut down the system gracefully, you can get
to the ok prompt, if you have an alphanumeric terminal attached to the SPARC
Enterprise T5140 or T5240 server, by pressing the Break key.

1. Type set /HOST send_break_action=break

to force a running SPARC Enterprise T5140 or T5240 server to drop to a menu.

For example

2. Press the Enter key

The server responds with:

3. Type c to get OpenBoot firmware control.

When init 0 is used, the server drops to this menu:

From this menu you can type o to get OpenBoot firmware control.

If the operating system is already halted, you can use the start /SP/console
command instead of set /HOST send_break_action=break to reach the ok
prompt.

Note –

After forcing the system into OpenBoot firmware control, be aware that

issuing certain OpenBoot commands (such as probe-scsi, probe-scsi-all, or
probe-ide

) might hang the system.

-> set /HOST send_break_action=break

Set ’send_break_action’ to ’break’

-> start /SP/console

Are you sure you want to start /SP/console (y/n)? y

Serial console started. To stop, type #.

c)ontinue, s)ync, r)eboot, h)alt?

r)eboot, o)k prompt, h)alt?

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