The ALOM software comes preinstalled on your host server. Therefore, ALOM works as soon as you install and power on the server. You can connect an external ASCII terminal to the serial management port (SERIAL MGT) and start using ALOM right away without needing to configure the ALOM software. For more information about connecting an external terminal, refer to the Installation Guide that came with your host server.
You can use the ALOM software to monitor the host server in which the ALOM hardware is installed. This means that you can monitor only the host server, but not other servers on the network. Multiple users can monitor the host server, but only one user at a time can issue any commands that require permissions. The other connections are read-only; they may issue commands that allow them to view the system console and ALOM output, but they may not change any settings.
When you first apply power to the server, ALOM automatically begins monitoring the system and displaying output to the system console using the preconfigured default account. The default account is called admin, and has full (cuar) permissions.
To log in to ALOM and to specify a password for admin, perform the following step:
If desired, after you log in to ALOM, you can customize ALOM to work with your particular installation.
You can now perform some common administrative tasks, such as adding ALOM user accounts.