Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide
Chapter 1 Initial Installation of RNCS Software
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Introducing the Sun Fire V240 Server and the
ALOM Port
The Sun Fire V240 Server
Cisco has chosen the Sun Fire V240 server for the platform in the RNCS. The Sun
Fire V240 server uses Sun’s existing SPARC and Solaris architecture, and is designed
to easily mount within a standard computer equipment rack. This highly available
server is configured with the following components:
Two UltraSPARC III processors
Four GB of memory
Two hard drives (36 or 73 GB)
Four Gigabit Ethernet ports
Serial management port
Network management port
Three PCI slots
Two redundant power supplies
A system configuration card
The ALOM Port
Taken as a whole, the serial management port and the network management port of
the Sun Fire V240 server constitute the Sun Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM)
port. The ALOM port is a system controller that allows the Sun Fire V240 server to
be managed and administered from a remote location. Through the ALOM port, an
engineer can monitor and control the server through a serial connection (using the
SERIAL MGT port) or an Ethernet connection (using the NET MGT port).