Basically it is a good idea to setup the iLOM network outside the public network. Up to this date iLOM has no feature to setup a firewall to prevent unauthorized login attempts from outside the world. In my case i put all my iLOMs in a seperate private network 10.5.1.x / 255.255.255.0. Usually iLOMs network factory settings are set to dhcp, but i decide to give the SP a fix IP address. Thus i have to reconfigure the iLOM network settings through the serial console. Below i will explain how to setup the network of the iLOM SP with a serial console connection.
First you have to establish a serial connection to the SER MGT connector (use the ethernet-to-serial connector which is shipped with the SUN machine). Be sure that all setting in minicom are correct (8N1, 9600 baud, Disable Hardware Flow Control, CTS / RTS) and login to iLOM with your root account and your password (the factory password for the iLOM SP is changeme). The following code sequence let you change the network settings to a fix IP address in a private network (in my example i will use 10.5.1.x / 24).
cd /SP/console start cd /SP/network set pendingipaddress=10.5.1.111 set pendingipnetmask=255.255.255.0 set pendingipgateway=10.5.1.254 set commitpending=true
Thats all. Now you can use the assigned IP address to login on the iLOMs WebGUI or directly connect to iLOM via SSH.
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