Importance:

Battery in T-series model is located on System Controller (SC) and system downtime is
required to replace the battery.
The system controller contains the persistent storage for the host ID and Ethernet MAC
addresses of the system, as well as the ALOM CMT configuration including the IP
addresses and ALOM CMT user accounts, if configured.
Battery provides power to the System Controller NVRAM when no AC power is applied
to the system.
Note:
After SC battery replacement the date/time on the SC/host will set to default value as
shown below, the same will reflect in the hosts UPTIME too if you wont set the
date/time correctly after battery replacement:
sc>
SAT JAN 01 00:06:55 UTC 2000

showdate

Procedure for Battery replacement:

1.) Take the necessary outputs of the box.
2.) Run explorer before proceeding with the task (best practise).
3.) Check the error logs in /var/adm/messages and at LOM/ALOM
prompt.
4.) Shutdown the box as server need to be completely down for
this task.
Note: Ask Application and Database champs to bring down their
applications and DBs on the box first.
# init 5
5.) Go to LOM/ALOM using #. (hash + dot) combination and check
server power state.

sc>
poweroff
Host system power is already off

-y

6.) Ask Hardware Engineer to repalce the battery and poweron the
box so that you can get the LOM/ALOM prompt.
7.) After login into the LOM/ALOM prompt, check the hardware
status to confirm all is okay.
sc>
showfaults
No failures found in System

-v

8.) Here check the date and you will notice the difference.
sc>
SAT JAN 01 00:06:55 UTC 2000

showdate

9.) Now if you will boot the system without any change in the
date/time you will get wrong uptime at server level. I will show
you the wrong uptime at the server level as it needs complete
reset to reflect the changes at OS level which I will perform at
last (i.e server reboot).
setdate <[mmdd]HHMM | mmddHHMM[cc]yy][.SS]>
sc> setdate 09050529
sc>
TUE SEP 05 05:29:35 UTC 2000

showdate

10.) Now I will poweron the box and will show you the incorrect uptime.
sc>
Enter #. to return to ALOM.

poweron

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