Logging In to Your ALOM Account

When you connect to ALOM for the first time, you are automatically connected as the admin account. This account has full (cuar) permissions. Before you can continue using ALOM, you need to specify a password for this account. After you specify the password, you can continue using ALOM. The next time you log in, you need to specify the password. When you are logged in as admin, you can add new users and specify passwords and permissions for them.

All users (admin and other users) employ the following procedure to log in to ALOM.

  1. Connect to ALOM.
  2. When the connection is established, type #. (pound-period) to escape from the system console.
  3. Type in your ALOM login name and password.

Your password is not echoed to the screen; instead, the host server displays an asterisk (*) for each character that you type. After you successfully log in, ALOM displays its command prompt:

sc>

You can now use ALOM commands or go to the system console.

The ALOM event log records login information. If more than five login failures occur within five minutes, ALOM generates a critical event.

ALOM view log commands