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Using Console and Service Processor Interfaces
Accessing Service Processor Interfaces
HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions—rp7410
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Accessing Service Processor Interfaces
This section describes how to log in to the service processor (GSP or MP)
for an nPartition server complex.
You can connect to a server complex’s service processor using the
following methods:
• Connecting through the customer LAN port by using telnet, if
login access through the customer LAN is enabled for the service
processor.
On HP Superdome servers, the customer LAN is labeled “Customer
LAN”. On HP rp8400 servers it is “GSP LAN”. On HP rp7410 servers
it is the only LAN port on the core I/O.
• Connecting through the local RS-232 port using a direct serial cable
connection.
On HP Superdome servers the local RS-232 port is labeled “Local
RS-232”. On HP rp8400 servers it is the “Local Console” port. On HP
rp7410 servers it is the 9-pin D-shaped connector (DB9) labeled
“Console”.
• Connecting through the remote RS-232 port using external model
(dial-up) access, if remote modem access is configured.
On HP Superdome servers the remote RS-232 port is labeled “Remote
RS-232”. On HP rp8400 servers it is the “Remote Console” port. On
HP rp7410 servers it is the DB9 connector labeled “Remote”.
Normally, when the customer LAN is configured, users will connect to a
server complex’s service processor by using the telnet command on a
remote system.
Use telnet to open a connection with the service processor, then log in
by entering the account name and corresponding password. Each login
account provides a specific level of access (administrator, operator,
single-partition user) for using the service processor menus and
commands.
Figure 3-1 shows a sample service processor login session.
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