urgent help needed on HP 9000 rp3410 server for a newbie

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Hi friends
i dont know whether it is the right forum to ask this or not. if its not please excuse me and please give me the link for such a forum.
i am novice about HP 9000 rp3410 server and its things but i had to install and configure it. I came to know that it doesnot comes with builtin graphics support. So i tried to connect to console according to their documentation. It came preinstalled with HP UX 11i and now i dont know how to connect to it though iLO or console. I tried all things that was mentioned in their documentation.

  1. Connect to MP using console
  2. Connect to MP using iLO
    using alternate methods but i am not getting anything on the machine connected as client. so can you please guide me on this. thanks a lot.
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The easiest method will be using the serial port. Click on this link and scroll down to the bottom diagram. You need to connect that db-25 connector to an ascii terminal. Ascii terminals are rare these days, so you may need a pc instead. It will need to run hyperterminal or something like that. Yoy need to connect that db-25 on the back of your server to the serial port on the pc. Configure hyperterminal to be 9600 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, none parity.

It is possible that the box arrived broken, but it's more likely that you not connected things right. HP has very reliable hardware.

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Hi thanks for ur reply. but i tried already whatever you have told but i have one doubt. which serial port in server you are telling is it the one that mentioned as console/remote/ups or some other one. I tried on this one i.e, the one that mentioned as console/remote/ups . but i am not getting it. Can you please guide me in little detail. please reply directly to my mail id removed. because in case we can chat in gmail also.

thanks a lot for given help and expect more help from you now

thanks and regards

Aravinda

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Sorry that i forgot to say in my previous reply that i am not even clear about how to use hyperterminal. What i did is this.

  1. Connected the null modem adapter between a pc and server
  2. switched on server and created a entry in the model list as communication cable between two computers ( This is needed or not i am not sure)
  3. using hyperterminal tried to connect to the server but whether server is ON or OFF it says connected. so i am clear that it is not working.
  4. i did the same thing with putty also but there it shows nothing but a cursor.

can you tell me anything that i am not doing or knowing it will be of greater help

thanks and regards

Aravinda

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We have some rules here and one of them is:
(10) Don't post your email address and ask for an email reply. Don't send a private message with a technical question. The forums are for the benefit of all, so all Q&A should take place in the forums.

If it still is not working you may indeed have a broken server and it's probably time to place a service call with HP. The service guy will have a laptop that he can connect as the console to test it out.