Specifications

AlphaServer 1000A Owner's Guide Overview • 1-3
a menu-based interface designed to facilitate hardware interaction with the Windows
NT operating system. The OpenVMS Alpha and Digital UNIX (SRM) console
firmware has a command line interface for hardware interaction with the Digital
UNIX or OpenVMS Alpha operating systems.
Table 1-1 Console Firmware Tasks
You Are Using... And You Want to... Console to Use
Windows NT Boot Windows NT ARC
Run the EISA Configuration Utility ARC
Run an adapter configuration utility ARC
Update firmware ARC
Switch to the SRM console ARC
Run programs written to run within the ARC firmware ARC
List Windows NT device names ARC
Change Windows NT boot configurations and
environment variables
ARC
Initialize the system ARC
Display system configuration ARC
Perform diagnostic tests SRM
Digital UNIX or
OpenVMS Alpha
Boot Digital UNIX or OpenVMS Alpha SRM
Update firmware SRM
Switch to Windows NT console SRM
Initialize the system SRM
Display system configuration SRM
Display system storage devices SRM
Set and display environment variables specific to
Digital UNIX and OpenVMS Alpha
SRM
Set and display environment variables that are common
to Digital UNIX, OpenVMS Alpha and Windows NT
SRM
Set console security SRM
Perform diagnostic tests SRM
Run the RAID Configuration Utility SRM command
invokes ARC
Run the EISA Configuration Utility SRM command
invokes ARC