IPMITOOL - change the booting device from disk to network

I am using ipmitool utility to change boot device on Sun T3 machine. Currently DISK is set as boot device for Sun T3 machine. I am running the following ipmitool utility commands to force boot from network. But everytime I power on/off the Sun T3 machine, it always boots from DISK.
The setup I am in is the following:
I use ipmitool and connect to ilom of sun t3 and perform/monitor the sun t3 host machine.
Thanks.

Thanks.
The host machine is Sparc Sun T3. It is not x86 hardware.
Ideally I would like to use ipmitool to change the boot device. The commands I am running are the following:
ipmitool -I lanplus -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -U root -P tom chassis bootdev pxe clear-cmos=yes
ipmitool -I lanplus -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -U root -P tom chassis bootparam set bootflag force_pxe
Both commands run to successful but no effect on changing the boot device.
I tried with obp command and SP command like you mentioned below, both are not change the boot order. Not tired eeprom yet.
ideally i want to write a shell script which when run would connect to ilom of Sun T3 Sparc and run change the boot device.
Regards,
Edited by: 900765 on Dec 6, 2011 2:39 PM

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