Summary: Remote Access and Headless

I want to thank everyone who responded.  Everyone came 
up with # eeprom auto-boot?=true which in our case 
was already set , but it was Jaime Dela Rosa who came 
up with the little bit extra eeprom setting on ttya 
that fixed our problem.

Here is his response:

most likely your eeprom setting has the auto-boot?
=false. change it to true.

i.e. inside Solaris:

# eeprom auto-boot?=true

and/or check these variables as well:
ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
ttya-ignore-cd=true


i hope this helps


Regards,


---------------
Jaime Dela Rosa
Siemens Business Services - Australia
e-mail: jaime.delarosa@siemens.com.au 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: RABENOJA@prodigy.net 
[mailto:RABENOJA@prodigy.net]
> Sent: Saturday, 11 May 2002 04:05
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Cc: ra7839@pbis.com
> Subject: Remote access to headless systems
> 
> 
> Dear Sun Gurus,
> 
> We have been administering many headless sparcs out 
in 
> the field. We have ttya connected to a terminal 
> server (which is nothing more than a cisco router) 
so 
> that we can monitor and control these systems from a 
> remote location. We have recently noticed that the 
> newer systems (new for us) with an AXi motherboards 
> seem to have problems when we reboot. When we telnet 
> into the terminal server to access the console, and 
> reboot the system, we seem to lose access to the 
> console as it reboots. We cannot see any data 
> streaming across nor can we enter any keystrokes to 
> enter any commands. In order to recover, I have to 
> dispatch a Site Manager and have them plug in a 
> keyboard and a monitor to bring the system back up. 
I 
> have been told that these systems are at the ok 
prompt 
> and then I have to get the sight manager to type 
boot 
> and remove the keyboard during ram check.
> 
> We are running some proprietary software on these 
> systems, but as I have stated earlier the older 
> systems with sparc motherboards (ultrasparc  Ultra 
> 1 s) are working fine and have no problems after 
> rebooting.
> 
> If anyone can give me some tips as where to start 
> troubleshooting I would appreciate it.
> 
> Thank you,
> Robert Abenoja
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