October 13, 2013 at 12:46SunFire v240 - a rare server
Hello! When I sorted out all kinds of rubbish at my favorite department, I discovered the following subject:
Naturally, the ownerless piece of iron aroused genuine interest, and the question “Does it work?” an employee of the department shrugged: “I have no idea, it’s interesting - turn it on and look ...”. What was immediately done, to all the curious - welcome under the cut (a lot of photos)
From the markings, it became clear that this is a kind of SunFire v240. Full specifications can be found here .
A quick inspection immediately revealed a lack of HDD, despite a piece of paper with the characteristics on which 2x36Gb HDD was listed:
In addition to the HDD slots, on the front panel are located: SmartCard reader, key lock, power button, DVD-ROM, and LED indicators.
The following connectors are available on the rear panel: 2 power sockets, RS-232 port for the console, RJ-45 redundant RS-232 functionality, Netmgt - Ethernet connector, for network administration if Telnet is included in ALOM , 4 standard Ethernet interfaces, plugs PCI devices, 2 USB, SCSI external port for tape drive.
Finding an old PC with RS-232 right there at the department and connecting to the server via Serial-mgt (there was no “serial-mother” serial cable, but there was an RS-232 / RJ-45 adapter), they plugged in the machine. In response, we received the following:
Of course, no one at the department knew about any passwords / logins, it was a logical step to open the test subject and reset the BIOS with a battery: the
battery was actually detected, but the reset did not happen, the password was stored in non-volatile memory.
Front compartment: HDD and SmartCard reader slots:
“Quick reference guide”:
Turning on the server, we saw the following:
The server did not respond to any Putty commands for a long time, however, the field of certain "dancing with a tambourine" around putty encodings began to respond.
Soon, at a flea market for 200 r, a 9 GB SCSI HP hard drive was purchased in order to test the overall performance with some kind of OS.
Password on ALOM. although he was present. but boot from the disk gave. As it turned out while reading the SUN documentation, Solaris OS contains a utility
which can "flash" the parameters in NVRAM from the OS environment. Command
allows you to reset the ALOM password. ALOM allows you to remotely view system parameters (voltage, temperature, RPM coolers, etc.), reboot, shut down, turn on the system, set boot priority, supports several user profiles at the same time. And besides everything else - enable telnet on the "netmgt" port so as not to suffer anymore with RS-232.
However, on UNIX, I understand how a “pig in diamonds” is,and on Linux, too , it was therefore decided to install some familiar Linux. An attempt to install fresh Ubuntu with a Live-CD was unsuccessful, due to some IO error from the DVD-ROM. But Debian 6 installed easily.
X, Gnome, and vnc4server were quickly installed on Debian:
For experimental purposes, Minecraft server:
Apache tomcat6:
Hardinfo’s built-in benchmark didn’t really please, all the same a piece of hardware in 2003:
That's all. Here is such an “Explosion from the Past"
PS If anyone has free access to server racks and free space in them, he is ready to exchange it for some other, not so big and noisy, rare piece of iron. The server now has an optional SCSI HDD Seagate Cheetah 130Gb (preferably IBM's ThinkPad).
UPD: server will be sent to Nizhny Novgorod in the near future to help develop ALGLIB
Naturally, the ownerless piece of iron aroused genuine interest, and the question “Does it work?” an employee of the department shrugged: “I have no idea, it’s interesting - turn it on and look ...”. What was immediately done, to all the curious - welcome under the cut (a lot of photos)
From the markings, it became clear that this is a kind of SunFire v240. Full specifications can be found here .
A quick inspection immediately revealed a lack of HDD, despite a piece of paper with the characteristics on which 2x36Gb HDD was listed:
In addition to the HDD slots, on the front panel are located: SmartCard reader, key lock, power button, DVD-ROM, and LED indicators.
The following connectors are available on the rear panel: 2 power sockets, RS-232 port for the console, RJ-45 redundant RS-232 functionality, Netmgt - Ethernet connector, for network administration if Telnet is included in ALOM , 4 standard Ethernet interfaces, plugs PCI devices, 2 USB, SCSI external port for tape drive.
Finding an old PC with RS-232 right there at the department and connecting to the server via Serial-mgt (there was no “serial-mother” serial cable, but there was an RS-232 / RJ-45 adapter), they plugged in the machine. In response, we received the following:
Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Sun(tm) Advanced Lights Out Manager 1.3 (unknown)
Please login:
Of course, no one at the department knew about any passwords / logins, it was a logical step to open the test subject and reset the BIOS with a battery: the
battery was actually detected, but the reset did not happen, the password was stored in non-volatile memory.
Front compartment: HDD and SmartCard reader slots:
“Quick reference guide”:
Turning on the server, we saw the following:
Boot device: disk0 File and args:
Evaluating:
Cant open boot device
(1) ok
The server did not respond to any Putty commands for a long time, however, the field of certain "dancing with a tambourine" around putty encodings began to respond.
Soon, at a flea market for 200 r, a 9 GB SCSI HP hard drive was purchased in order to test the overall performance with some kind of OS.
Password on ALOM. although he was present. but boot from the disk gave. As it turned out while reading the SUN documentation, Solaris OS contains a utility
/usr/sbin/eeprom
which can "flash" the parameters in NVRAM from the OS environment. Command
/usr/sbin/eeprom security-password=
allows you to reset the ALOM password. ALOM allows you to remotely view system parameters (voltage, temperature, RPM coolers, etc.), reboot, shut down, turn on the system, set boot priority, supports several user profiles at the same time. And besides everything else - enable telnet on the "netmgt" port so as not to suffer anymore with RS-232.
However, on UNIX, I understand how a “pig in diamonds” is,
X, Gnome, and vnc4server were quickly installed on Debian:
For experimental purposes, Minecraft server:
Apache tomcat6:
Hardinfo’s built-in benchmark didn’t really please, all the same a piece of hardware in 2003:
That's all. Here is such an “Explosion from the Past"
UPD: server will be sent to Nizhny Novgorod in the near future to help develop ALGLIB