SUNFIRE V215 Will not auto boot on power restore.

Question

Greetings. I have just purchased a new Sunfire V215. We have a script that automatically turns the server down if the UPS has lost power for more than 5 minutes. However, when power's restored, the server is not automatically powering back on. I have to press the power button on the front of the server. I have checked eeprom and alom settings and they all look correct:
eeprom:
if_network="false"
if_modem="false"
if_connection="none"
if_emailalerts="false"
sys_autorestart="xir"
sys_bootrestart="reset"
sys_bootfailrecovery="none"
sys_maxbootfail="3"
sys_xirtimeout="900"
sys_boottimeout="900"
sys_wdttimeout="60"
netsc_tpelinktest="true"
netsc_dhcp="false"
netsc_ipaddr="0.0.0.0"
netsc_ipnetmask="255.255.255.0"
netsc_ipgateway="0.0.0.0"
mgt_mailhost=""
mgt_mailalert=""
sc_customerinfo=""
sc_escapechars="#."
sc_powerondelay="false"
sc_powerstatememory="true"
sc_clipasswdecho="true"
sc_cliprompt="sc"
sc_clitimeout="0"
sc_clieventlevel="2"
sc_backupuserdata="true"
sys_eventlevel="2"
-bash-3.00# eeprom
asr-policy=normal
test-args: data not available.
diag-passes=1
local-mac-address?=true
fcode-debug?=false
scsi-initiator-id=7
oem-logo: data not available.
oem-logo?=false
oem-banner: data not available.
oem-banner?=false
ansi-terminal?=true
screen-#columns=80
screen-#rows=34
ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false
ttyb-ignore-cd=true
ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
ttya-ignore-cd=true
ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
output-device=screen
input-device=keyboard
auto-boot-on-error?=true
error-reset-recovery=sync
load-base=16384
auto-boot?=true
network-boot-arguments: data not available.
boot-command=boot
diag-file: data not available.
diag-device=disk:b
boot-file: data not available.
boot-device== disk0:a rootmir:a net
use-nvramrc?=true
nvramrc=devalias rootmir /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@a/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@1/disk@1,0
security-mode=none
security-password: data not available.
security-#badlogins=0
verbosity=normal
diag-trigger=error-reset power-on-reset
service-mode?=false
diag-script=normal
diag-level=max
diag-switch?=false
scadm show:
if_network="false"
if_modem="false"
if_connection="none"
if_emailalerts="false"
sys_autorestart="xir"
sys_bootrestart="reset"
sys_bootfailrecovery="none"
sys_maxbootfail="3"
sys_xirtimeout="900"
sys_boottimeout="900"
sys_wdttimeout="60"
netsc_tpelinktest="true"
netsc_dhcp="false"
netsc_ipaddr="0.0.0.0"
netsc_ipnetmask="255.255.255.0"
netsc_ipgateway="0.0.0.0"
mgt_mailhost=""
mgt_mailalert=""
sc_customerinfo=""
sc_escapechars="#."
sc_powerondelay="false"
sc_powerstatememory="true"
sc_clipasswdecho="true"
sc_cliprompt="sc"
sc_clitimeout="0"
sc_clieventlevel="2"
sc_backupuserdata="true"
sys_eventlevel="2"
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Power is fully lost. The UPS shuts down. We are using powerchute software, but we don't want to rely on this. When the UPS gets to a certain discharge amount, we have a script that shuts down other servers and then shuts itself down. But again, when power is restored, it doesn't come up at all. I have to manually press the power button on the front of the server. I'm really beginning to be less and less a fan of Sun...They change all this crud on their new servers. It was hard enough just to get the APC to connect due to their changing of the serial ports on the servers. For the money, I should be able to do ANYTHING with this box.
Edited by: jchutch2 on Jan 10, 2008 3:10 PM