Does anyone find the RSC cards reliable?
I have been going back and forth with the RSC cards in several V880s
and V480s for a while now. Sometimes they seem to be ok after being
configured, other times they just "stop responding" and none of the
resetrsc commands work. According to Sun, the only way to fix an RSC
that is not responding to the resetrsc commands is to physically remove
it and replace it.
That is a bit of a problem for me, because the whole goal is to have
console access to systems that I do not have physical access to!
So I guess my question is, are any of you using these things in the
V880/V480 and if so, are you encountering any "reliability" issues or
have they just been fire and forget?
I really want to use these things, and I have one or two configured
locally but I am hesitant about configuring boxes that I have no
physical access to because I have to change the input/ouput devices to
rsc. Once I do that, I have to have 100% confidence in the RSC card
(which I do not have at this point).
FYI my latest frustration is with a V480 running Solaris 9 that has
2.2.3 of the RSC Software installed that at one point was set up but
now I can't even configure it, I always get this message after putting
in all of the information needed for `rsc-config`
This script will now update RSC, continue? (y|n): y Updating flash,
this takes a few minutes
rscadm: download rejected, keyswitch in secure mode?
The keyswitch is verified to NOT be in secure mode, so I have no idea
why it thinks it is. After the first failure if I try to config it
again:
./rsc-config
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding
I try to do the reset command:
./rscadm resetrsc
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding
./rscadm resetrsc -s
rscadm: RSC firmware not responding
But for some reason a "rscadm show" prints output... all of the
previous settings (which I need to change)
This is one of the things that worries me, because at one point this
RSC card worked!!!
