System Service Processor

Functionality

• Environmental monitoring and automated domain-shutdown in the event of an out-of-bounds condition, such as a CPU getting too hot.
• The creation and destruction of domains
• The ability to boot domains
• Domain console device
• Dynamic Reconfiguration of domains, in which CPU, memory, and/or Input-Output boards are added to or removed from a running domain.
• Assign multiple paths to Input-Output devices for increased availability
• Monitor and display platform environmental statistics, such as the temperatures, currents, and voltages present on System Boards
• Monitor and control power flow to the platform components such as System Boards and Control Boards
• Power On Self Test and similar platform diagnostics
• Logging and Notification for various platform events
• The creation and destruction of Inter Domain Networks which allow for TCP/IP connectivity between domains, across the platform's centerplane.
• Support for a dual power-grid option

Implementation

Supported hardware platforms

• Sun SPARCstation 5
• Sun Ultra 5
• Sun Enterprise 250
• Sun Netra T1