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The Sun Fire V445 Administration and Troubleshooting course provides students with the information necessary to perform installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of issues on the Sun Fire V445. This includes performing FRU replacements, configuring RAID, and using ALOM to troubleshoot issues.
Course Length
4 hours
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Languages
English
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are personnel who install software to properly configure servers, configure the servers using software procedures, perform FRU installation and replacement procedures of servers, and troubleshoot issues on the servers. These job roles include field engineers, partner field engineers, systems support engineers, solution center technical support engineers, and customers.
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Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
- Identify major features of the Sun Fire architecture
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Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Describe the key features and technologies of the Sun Fire V445 server and relate them to other Sun servers
- Identify the physical and architectural features of the Sun Fire V445
- Perform FRU installation and replacement procedures for the Sun Fire V445
- Install and configure platform-specific software
- Install and configure applications for monitoring and diagnostics
- Identify and configure the default RAID configurations
- Troubleshoot configuration and hardware issues, including RAID and ALOM issues
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Topics
Additional Related Courses:
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After: WGS-PREX-5190: Sun Fire V445 Server Administration Assessment
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Related Courses
Before:
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Course Content
Module 1 - Overview of the Sun Fire V445 Server
- Describe the features of the Sun Fire V445 server
- Compare the Sun Fire V445 server with other Sun servers in the four-way server space
Module 2 - Physical Characteristics of the Sun Fire V445 Server
- Identify and locate the system chassis components and features
- Identify and locate the internal components of the Sun Fire V445 server
- Identify and describe the function of the Sun Fire V445 server LEDs
Module 3 - Sun Fire V445 Server Architectural Overview
- Describe the architectural features of the Sun Fire V445 server
- Describe the physical characteristics of the UltraSPARC IIIi
- CPU/Memory module and its architectural layout
- Describe the physical characteristics of the system I/O, its components, and its architectural layout
- Describe the components that make up the ALOM processor and its architectural features
- Describe the remaining infrastructure boards that fully describe the Sun Fire V445 server
Module 4 - Sun Fire V445 Server Setup
- List the steps required for the initial setup of the Sun Fire V445 server
- Rack-mount the Sun Fire V445 server
- Power-on the ALOM processor
- Power-on and -off the host
- Identify CRUs and FRUs
- Perform CRU and FRU procedures
Module 5 - Configuring the Sun Fire V445 ALOM Processor
- Describe characteristics of the ALOM processor used in the Sun Fire V445 server
- Describe how to configure the ALOM processor network management port
- Describe how to change and view the ALOM processor's configuration parameters
- Manage user accounts and make firmware updates on the ALOM processor
- Access the host through the ALOM processor
Module 6 - Software Utilities for the Sun Fire V445 Server
- Describe how the virtual keyswitch and bootmode settings affect the system boot-up
- Navigate between the system console and the ALOM processor
- Describe the device tree and the preinstalled drivers used on the Sun Fire V445 server
- Describe the Solaris OS environment that is preinstalled on the Sun Fire V445 server
- Describe the RAID functionality
- Use the RAID configuration utility to configure RAID 1 on the Sun Fire V445 server
Module 7 - Using Sun Standard Diagnostic Tools to Troubleshoot Issues
- Use hardware and firmware tools available to monitor and troubleshoot the Sun Fire V445 server
- Use LED patterns to troubleshoot hardware problems
- Configure the Sun Fire V445 server to execute and display POST and OBP output
- Analyze POST and OBP output to troubleshoot system hardware
- Describe the fault management architecture and identify how it can be used to troubleshoot the server
- Describe SunVTS software use on the Sun Fire V445 server
- Use system logs to troubleshoot issues
- Identify the Solaris OS commands that you can use to collect data and help in troubleshooting
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