Sun: Advanced Lights Out Manager

Sun™ Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) is a system controller that enables you to remotely manage and administer the Sun server's.
ALOM works as soon as it is installed and power on the server. ALOM comes pre-installed on the below server models

• Sun Fire V125 server
• Sun Fire V210 server
• Sun Fire V215 server
• Sun Fire V240 server
• Sun Fire V245 server
• Sun Fire V250 server
• Sun Fire V440 server
• Sun Fire V445 server
• Netra 210 server
• Netra 240 server
• Netra 440 server

ALOM enables us to monitor and control our server over a network, or by using a dedicated serial port for connection to a terminal or terminal server.
ALOM provides a command-line interface that we can use to remotely administer geographically distributed or physically inaccessible machines.
ALOM enables us to run diagnostics remotely such as power-on self-test (POST), that would otherwise require physical proximity to the server's serial port.


We can also configure ALOM to send email alerts of hardware failures, hardware warnings, and other events related to the server or to ALOM.


ALOM circuitry runs independently of the server, using the server's standby power. Therefore, ALOM firmware and software continue to function when the server operating system goes offline or when the server is powered off.

Note: Most of the people will refer this ALOM as remote console or SC console.