We have a V890 running Solaris 10 that has two zones (containers) running instancesof Oracle database. `smpatch' won't install patch 118833-36 in the normal mannerbecause it's flagged as an interactive patch. The recommended procedure is to shutthe server down, boot it in single-user mode ...

Hi,after restarting the agent on Solaris 10 by entering# /etc/init.d/uce_agent stop# /etc/init.d/uce_agent startsome seconds later the /opt/local/uce/agent//bin/uce_agent.binprocess dies and i get this error mesage in the error log:... snip ...[7981] (03/16 16:54:34) Failed to connect. Reason: ...

I'm trying to create a very basic N1 OS Provisioning system on Solaris 10 with everything running on the same physical server. We only provision a few servers per month. On the physical server I installed the Master Server by running:cr_ms_solaris_sparc_pkg_5.2.shThen logged into the web ...

This question refers to the following document at docs.sun.com http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6519/6n8he6e0a?a=viewThis document says if you're using Solaris 10 you have to manually enable TFTP on the JET server. However, the actual command listed is really enabling FTP and not TFTP. So, ...

I can do an smpatch analyze from the LPS server directly to Sun, but the LPS never caches the current.zip or any other files for that matter.It was working fine a few days ago (3/14/2007)Here's the errors from a diag run:# smpatch analyze -@ -C patchpro.internal.statustags=true -C ...

I have setup an LPS on Solaris 10 03/05. I have followed the following procedure.# 11978[8|9]-07: Sun Update Connection Proxy 1.0.9# 12033[5|6]-04: Sun Update Connection Client Localization# 12108[1|2]-06: Connected Customer Agents 1.1.0# 12111[8|9]-11: Sun Update Connection System Client ...

We have a problem bringing up N1SMs (1.3.2) SPS (5.2.1) using sshas the communication channel protocol between server and remoteagent. The error message returned says "Unable make ssh connection to "10.103.16.127:70000"."What does that mean? Why is there an out-of-range 70000 port being used? ...

Hello,I was wondering if a SunMC agent is able to recognize a ZFS filesystem? I've tried it on one of our test servers there is no category under Kernel Reader-Filesystem Usage for ZFS...only ufs and vxfs

Hello!I'd tried to use updatemanager on the host behind the firewall. Attempt of setup proxy cause the exception java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableExceptionat $Proxy1.getInstanceName(Unknown Source)at ...

Patch 120445-01 will not apply to a Solaris 9 (09/2005) setup. The hardware is an Ultra-80.Although it is recommended, it fails with the "patchadd" message:Checking installed patches...One or more patch packages included in 120445-01 are not installed on this system.The host was installed from ...

How do I enable networking between the control/service domain and other domains?

Hi Experts,During customer project we want to hide controls of os system service. There is "access" keyword for <control> configuration. This parameter can set to PRIVATE or PROTECTED to control user acces to <control>s in the system service.But we want to use one of this protected ...

Dear All,We are running a SMC server with version 3.5.1 in a Solaris 8 machine in our setup which is monitoring our more than 60-70 servers which are also running 3.5.1 agents. Now as because of some problems, we have to replace our Old SMC server to a new server. Now my question is that if we ...

Hi,We're in the process of configuring a SunMC server/client topologyin a DMZ. A firewall resides between the server and clients.The following ports have been opened inbound - i.e. client -> server163 UDP8080TCPSNMP port UDPOutbound traffic - i.e. server -> client - is unrestricted.What ...

Hi there,To my surprise I just found out that the SunMC webpage on sun.com was updated, but I was even more surprised to see that they changed the licensing..Please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the SunMC 3.6.1 software used to be "free" for commercial use and if you wanted support than ...

I have just install solaris on my intel server and found that only the loop back interface has been recognised. Will solaris recognise my built in adapter or do I need to put another NIC in the box?Iain Cox

Hi All,for specific reasons, we want to install a set of components with fixed signatures from Jython CLI, but without appropriate plans. In fact, we want to simulate the behavior that we know from Plugin UI, i.e. linking directly to an installer of a component.We figured the following steps ...

Hi All,once again, we experience a problem, when running udb commands from the Jython CLI, namely one of 'udb.g.la' or 'udb.u.la' (Others may be affected as well).Our user is logged on and the application handle works well for any other CLI calls.Our code looks something like this:app = ...

Hi All,we are trying to grab stdout/stderr from within Jython CLI. Plan was run with 'pe.p.run'.Now we are trying to grab stdout/stderr from there using the 'pe.p.en' command. Therefore, we either need a so-called stepID, which we would have to parse from a separate file using 'pe.p.lo' ...

Hi, I have a Solaris 9 machine that is not allowing me to addpatch 112233.12. When I use patchadd, I get the message:Checking installed patches...Re-installing patch 112233-12...One or more patch packages included in112233-12 are not installed on this system.My system config is:Solaris 9 4/04 ...

Hello,I have problems integrating a SunMC 3.5.1 agent on a new V125 server into the managemnt console.1) The server itself is not recognized - means I have a folder symbol instead of server symbol2) I cannot see any module loaded in the console only the high level entry point like "local ...

I've noticed 'smpatch analyze' seems to be routinely missing some patches. When comparing what smpatch recommends vs. something like PCR, we keep getting a few discrepancies. When you input individual patches to smpatch however, it will report as needing that patch. For example:#smpatch ...

Hi, Since the LDOM blueprint is pretty thin, can someone please post some examples of how to-1. use a ZFS pool as a boot disk in a guest domain 2. use a seperate physical device as a network interface in a guest domainI'm looking for ldm commands for the above.Thanks in advance, - ...

Hi :A GUI base tool for LDOM is good and important function to catch up customer's eye just like VMWare GUI tool.Has any plan in the future ?-- Rex

Hi,we are looking at sun management software and noticed that it costs about $300+ per client. what is an alternative to this which is less expensive or free? what are you other admins doing?thanks,~jv

Folks,I am trying to connect using a windows XP console to SMC and not meeting withvery much success.If I run the console direct from the SMC server it works fine,whenhowever I use the XP based console I get a box saying Communication may not beestablished with the server-the server version may ...

I've been trying for 3 days to load an OS on a guest LDOM I created. The guest domain boots off the network but hangs up on the configuration. The "Beginners Guide to LDoms" says on page 39:The second aspect of the operating system is how to install it. For the Logical Domains Manager, you can ...

The application that I would like to install in a Logical Domain can only be installed from CDROM. Is it possible to configure the domain to access the system's CDROM drive?

Hi,I'm having a problem with a couple of workstations, whereby the residentagent loses contact with the SunMC server. The log files under /var/opt/SUNWsymon/logaren't much help. Is there anyway of increasing the verbosity of the datacollected in these ...

Hi all,I have a bunch of galaxy servers installed with our jumpstart server. I would know manage them with N1SM. I can discover those server without any problem but can't enable the osmonitoring. Trying adding this feature always end up with : Result 1: Server:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxStatus: -3Message: ...

Hello,Installation and Config of my first LDom on T2000 without big problems, some are:- SUNWldom[ru].v Packages from 11_06 are not installed- Firmware Upgrade failed first time, I think due to too match aktivity during flash- exit console during installation and reconnect goes in shell, not ...

Is there any relief for this problem? It seems that whenever a client runs smpatch,the local patch server discards perfectly good jar and zip files and replaces themwith empty files. find . \( -name '*.jar' -o -name '*.zip' \) -size 0 -exec rm '{}' ';'works nicely for removing them, but ...

Hi guys,I am having problems discovering x4100 M2 servers by N1SM. I am using N1SM and have already applied (Sun N1 System Manager Does Not RecognizeSystem (6522517)) workaround. When discovery ends it's job gets marked as Completed, but server isn't listed in All servers list. In job details ...

Install Solaris 10 11/06 and after doing updates and rebooting, unable to complete the check for updates. I get "java.lang.NullpointerException update manager" while anayzing the system.Can somebody help me here?

I am attempting to create a service and I/O domain. I created the domain, gave this domain the e1000g1 network interface and setup a virtual switch from which other guest domains will get one network interface for network failover. After that I bound the domain and started it and attempted to ...

Hello !I have installed Solarias 10 1/06 some time ago and today I managed to get most of the updates installed with Sun Update Connection, but now my Solarias system will not boot !It says: 'cannot mount boot archives' and prompts me to press a key for reboot.Note that some of the updates ...

`smpatch analyze' shows these patches:118562-12 SunOS 5.10: Solaris Data Encryption Kit Patch118563-12 SunOS 5.10_x86: Solaris Data Encryption Kit Patchbut `smpatch download' says:The following patches were not downloaded:118562-12: Request to download update failed. Status code 404 returned. ...

I have a problem of adding a virtual disk to logical domain.I cannot use disk slice(s) to make them as virtual disk devices.Here is an example:When I do "ldm add-vdiskserverdevice /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 vdisk2@primary-vds0" and "ldm add-vdisk vdisk2 vdisk2@primary-vds0 ldom1" I've got error ...

I just read the blueprint overview for LDOMs and think this is very promising. I see it's on T1k and T2k now, but we run larger models, all sparc based, and hopefully Opteron in the future.What is the future path for other platforms? We're also upgrading to Solaris 10 across the enterprise ...

hi,I installed s10 3/05 and all available patches via smpatch. In s10 6/06 a new package SUNWfcprt is included. Why isn't it installed? Doesn't smpatch work correctly?Thanksfor answer.Regards Eric

I have registered a system earlier w/subscription key (contract number) and for some unknown reason, it got a number of process queued in in progress status (for over 3 months!). I've updated the system via update manager and there should be no outstanding patches. In order for me to clear ...

Does anyone have more information on how Sun is generating MAC adresses for guest/IO/service domains and is their concern that this method will potentilly create duplicates in the enterprise. I have seen where there is a range of MAC addrs Sun has set aside for manual assignment to LDOMs, ...

I recently installed SMC and much to my dismay when I tried to run the Set Up part of the install it failed telling me I needed to reboot my host due to /etc/system changes. This installation is on Solaris 10 - why in the world does it require a reboot for IPC parameters?

I configured a T2000 as described in the beginner's guide (<a href=" http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0207/820-0832.pdf"> http://www.sun.com/bl ueprints/0207/820-0832.pdf</a>) with the exception of the device allocated for the root disk. For that I came up with my own variant of <a ...

I am trying to separate my unused pci@7c0 from my primary control domain using the commands as documented in the blueprint on page 73. The command returns no error and when I do a list-bindings I can see that the PCI branch has been removed. Then I reboot the machine (tried this with and ...

Hello,we applied smpatch 'patch' 112945-44 to use smpatch function.After patch was applied, server (Solaris 9) change locale ?(from C or Posix to also installed German de)Any ideas ? I like to read my system messages in english, also a lot of scripts ...... the not work properly with german ...

hi all,when I tape this command " env " under solairs 10 , it displays my things about hostname , login name ,.... and the editor,how can I change this configuration I need to change the EDITOR to EDITOR=/usr/bin/vican some help me plzthanks

Hi,I'm having problems with data collection on a number of servers.Essentially, I've configured data logging on a number of serversby creating a job in the 'Manage jobs' window, using the task type'data logging' and running it against a number of hosts.Unfortunately, when I look at the ...

I've just upgraded my support plan to include a second host. Have been using 'smpatch' w/o incident for more than a year. on the older host.I've used updatemanager to register my second system. It says I successfully registered, but when I restart it, it says I'm not registered. The online ...

I set up our primary domain following the example in the beginner's guide to the letter. I saved the configureation "initial" just like it said. I powered the system completly to add in fiber cards and when I brought the system back up, the primary domain booted into the "factory default" ...