[SunHELP] Connecting Sunfire V240 to Raritan Paragon I

[James, Denise]

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Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Connecting Sunfire V240 to Raritan Paragon I



On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, James, Denise wrote:



> So if it's never worked, how have you accessed the server at the

> console?



Serial console or keyboard and video only. It's usually good enough for

crash recovery.



[James, Denise] Understood :-)



> We were trying to get the mouse, keyboard and monitor off of this
server

> since all of the other Sun servers are on the Raritan.  This is not
good

> news :-(



Yeah, same here.





> Question:  Did you try adding power to the USKVMC?  They are sending
me

> a power adapter for the USKVMC.



We use the P2CIM-SUSB to connect the USB machines to our Paragon2. I
think

we used the USKVMC with the older servers (that's the non-USB one with
the

pass-through connectors right?)



[James, Denise] Yes...The USKVMC came with the VGA to 13W3 converter.



and never had any problems with them at all (never had to use a power
adapter.) As near as I can tell, the only

problem I've had with the USB CIMs is that I haven't been able to get
the

servers (V240 and V880) to use it as a mouse.



[James, Denise] Did you talk to Raritan about this?  Did they offer any
suggestions?

I've only played with it on

machines that need a fresh install of Solaris so I don't know if simply

installing it with a local mouse, keyboard and monitor and then
switching

to the KVM would work.



[James, Denise] That's pretty much what happened here.  This is a new
server and I just moved it from its local mouse, keyboard and monitor
and switched it over to the Raritan.  I did not do a boot
reconfigure...you think that would have anything to do with the problem?
I called Sun yesterday and they had me to run some fbconfig commands and
the server sends back the following...but it wouldn't show the EDID
Data.  The Sun technician said ...



>>Since the card is hooked into a KVM switch, rather than a monitor, the


>>resolution that the monitor can support is not being picked up.  This
is

>>the EDID data not found you are seeing.  To fix that, you would need
to

>>hook up the card directly to the monitor, then do a reconfigure boot.





[James, Denise] The point is that I want this server connected to the
Raritan!!!!!  Let me know what you find out after connecting your
SunBlade please.



# fbconfig -prconf



--- Hardware Configuration for /dev/fb ---



Type: XVR-100

ASIC: version 0x5159            REV: version 0x3000000

PROM: version 2.3



Monitor/Resolution Information:

Monitor A:

        EDID Data: Not Available

        Current resolution setting: 1152x900x66

        Current depth: 24

Monitor B:

        EDID Data: Not Available

        Current resolution setting: 1152x900x66

        Current depth: 8



Depth Information:

        Possible depths: 8, 24



I did read that SUN servers don't like mice

connected to hubs (which I've heard the Paragon setup will look like)
when

they boot. I haven't tried it with a Sun Blade 100, so maybe I'll play

with it some more today.

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