SunFire v240 - rare server
Hello! When I was sorting out all sorts of trash in my favorite department, I discovered the following subject:
Naturally, an abandoned piece of iron caused a genuine interest, and the question “Does it work?” A staff member of the department shrugged his shoulders: “Without a clue, it's interesting - turn it on and see ...”. What was immediately done, to all curious - welcome under the cat (many photos)
By markings, it became clear that this is a kind of SunFire v240. Full specifications can be found here .
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A quick inspection immediately revealed the absence of HDD, despite a piece of paper with characteristics on which 2x36Gb HDD appeared:
In addition to HDD slots, the front panel includes: SmartCard reader, turnkey lock, power button, DVD-ROM, and LED indicators.
The back panel contains the following connectors: 2 power sockets, RS-232 port for the console, RJ-45 duplicate RS-232 functionality, Netmgt - Ethernet connector, for network administration if ALOM has Telnet enabled, 4 standard Ethernet interfaces, stubs 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 “mother-mother” serial cable, but there was an RS-232 / RJ-45 adapter), they turned on the machine. In response, we received the following:
Of course no one in 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 inside was indeed detected, but there was no reset, the password was stored in non-volatile memory.
Front bay: HDD slots and SmartCard reader:
"Quick reference guide":
Turning on the server, saw the following:
The server did not respond to any Putty commands for a long time, however, the field of certain “dances with a tambourine” around the encodings in putty began to respond.
Soon, at a flea market for 200r, a 9 GB hard disk SCSI HP was purchased in order to test the overall performance with some sort of OS.
ALOM password. although present. but boot from disk gave. As it turned out during the reading of the SUN documentation, Solaris OS contains a utility
which can "flash" the settings in NVRAM from the OS environment. Team
allows you to reset your ALOM password. The ALOM environment allows you to remotely view the system parameters (voltage, temperature, RPM - coolers, etc.), perform a reboot, shutdown, turn on the system, set the boot priority, support multiple user profiles at the same time. And among other things - to enable telnet on the “netmgt” port in order not to suffer more from RS-232.
However, in UNIX I understand how “a pig in diamonds”and in Linux, too , it was therefore decided to install some familiar Linux. An attempt to install a fresh Ubuntu from a Live-CD was not successful, in view of some IO errors from a DVD-ROM. But Debian 6 installs easily.
Debian quickly installed X, Gnome and vnc4server:
For the sake of experiment, the Minecraft server:
Apache tomcat6:
The built-in benchmark hardinfo was not particularly pleased, all the same hardware of 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, I am ready to exchange it for some other, not so big and noisy, rare piece of iron. An additional SCSI HDD Seagate Cheetah 130Gb (preferably IBM ThinkPad) is now installed on the server.
UPD: the server is soon sent to Nizhny Novgorod to assist in the development of ALGLIB
Naturally, an abandoned piece of iron caused a genuine interest, and the question “Does it work?” A staff member of the department shrugged his shoulders: “Without a clue, it's interesting - turn it on and see ...”. What was immediately done, to all curious - welcome under the cat (many photos)
By markings, it became clear that this is a kind of SunFire v240. Full specifications can be found here .
')
A quick inspection immediately revealed the absence of HDD, despite a piece of paper with characteristics on which 2x36Gb HDD appeared:
In addition to HDD slots, the front panel includes: SmartCard reader, turnkey lock, power button, DVD-ROM, and LED indicators.
The back panel contains the following connectors: 2 power sockets, RS-232 port for the console, RJ-45 duplicate RS-232 functionality, Netmgt - Ethernet connector, for network administration if ALOM has Telnet enabled, 4 standard Ethernet interfaces, stubs 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 “mother-mother” serial cable, but there was an RS-232 / RJ-45 adapter), they turned on 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 in 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 inside was indeed detected, but there was no reset, the password was stored in non-volatile memory.
Front bay: HDD slots and SmartCard reader:
"Quick reference guide":
Turning on the server, 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 “dances with a tambourine” around the encodings in putty began to respond.
Soon, at a flea market for 200r, a 9 GB hard disk SCSI HP was purchased in order to test the overall performance with some sort of OS.
ALOM password. although present. but boot from disk gave. As it turned out during the reading of the SUN documentation, Solaris OS contains a utility
/usr/sbin/eeprom which can "flash" the settings in NVRAM from the OS environment. Team
/usr/sbin/eeprom security-password= allows you to reset your ALOM password. The ALOM environment allows you to remotely view the system parameters (voltage, temperature, RPM - coolers, etc.), perform a reboot, shutdown, turn on the system, set the boot priority, support multiple user profiles at the same time. And among other things - to enable telnet on the “netmgt” port in order not to suffer more from RS-232.
However, in UNIX I understand how “a pig in diamonds”
Debian quickly installed X, Gnome and vnc4server:
For the sake of experiment, the Minecraft server:
Apache tomcat6:
The built-in benchmark hardinfo was not particularly pleased, all the same hardware of 2003:
That's all. Here is such an "explosion from the past"
UPD: the server is soon sent to Nizhny Novgorod to assist in the development of ALGLIB
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/196334/
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