Sun Enterprise Server Maintenance

QA Ltd.
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Slough, United Kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The Sun Enterprise Server Maintenance course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 servers. Students study the architecture and hardware components of these servers; practice locating, removing, and replacing all field-replaceable units (FRUs); and use a variety of diagnostic tools to troubleshoot failed system components.

Who Can Benefit:

Students who can benefit from this course are field service engineers and enterprise system self-maintainers with experience servicing medium to large-scale networked database servers.

Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

Assemble systems
Troubleshoot medium to large-scale server systems
Replace field-replaceable components
Delegates will learn how to
Identify the features of the Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 servers
Describe the basic architecture for the Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 servers
Locate, remove, and replace server FRUs
Perform Solaris Operating System and UNIX commands necessary for halting, booting, and maintaining a server
Use the Forth Toolkit to modify the OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM)
Retrieve power-on self-test (POST) reports and interpret their results
Decode light-emitting diode (LED) indicators
Execute Dynamic Reconfiguration commands to remove a system board
Configure and execute Sun Validation Test Suite
Perform basic troubleshooting based on common faults

Course outline


Module 1 �Introduction to Sun Enterprise Servers

Describe the main roles and features of the Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 servers
Define what the Sun Enterprise servers�reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) and scalability feature sets provide
Describe the tools and applications used to monitor and maintain Sun Enterprise servers
Describe the concurrent maintenance philosophy as it applies to Sun Enterprise servers
Describe the architecture and hardware performance specifications of each Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 server
Module 2 �Server Architecture and Components

Describe the Sun Enterprise Gigaplane(TM) architecture and bus structure

Describe the details of the central processing unit (CPU)/Memory+ system boards
Describe the details of the input/output (I/O)+ boards
Describe the details of the system Clock+ board
Describe the basic systems configurations of each Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 server
Describe all of the correct internal disk configurations for each Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 server products
Describe the function of filler panels, passive boards, and load boards
Identify and locate all field-replaceable units (FRUs) in each Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 server
Remove and replace UltraSPARC(R) II CPU modules and dual-inline memory modules (DIMMs)
Remove and replace all other FRUs in each Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5500, and Sun Enterprise 6500 server
Module 3 �Internal Disk Systems

Identify the supported internal disk subsystems
Interpret the disk addressing used in each server
Describe the rules for disk board usage
Module 4 �POST

Set up a system console for monitoring and troubleshooting a Sun Enterprise server
Explain the role of the power-on self-test (POST) in system diagnostics
Access and display POST results
Interpret POST results and apply them in troubleshooting
Manage POST testing
Module 5 �OpenBoot PROM and NVRAM

Describe the roles of the OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM)
Describe the OpenBoot PROM’s role in monitoring the system’s environment
Describe how power-on self-test (POST) and the OpenBoot PROM work together to manage system hardware and components
Describe how the OpenBoot PROM prevents memory banks and system components from accessing the Solaris OS
Define and edit the nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) configuration variables
Copy the contents of the NVRAM/time-of-day (TOD) contents from the Clock+ board to an I/O board
Module 6 �Applications and Utilities

Apply an organized total systems approach in fault analysis and diagnosis
Identify available resources to solve technical problems
Identify concurrent maintenance tools and roles
Isolate common faults on Sun Enterprise servers
Module 7 �Troubleshooting and Fault Analysis

Use an organized total system approach for fault analysis and diagnosis
Identify available resources used to solve technical problems
Identify concurrent maintenance strategies when performing maintenance activities on Sun Enterprise servers
Use the Fault Analysis Worksheet to gather and document facts
Isolate common faults on Sun Enterprise servers
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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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