Hello,I have a Sun Netra T1 ultrasparc with Linux (Ubuntu Server) installed.Every night the machine stops working. I don't know what just happens. Is it a crash? Is it a network problem? When this happens, I can access the computer with the "lom" and I can get the "ok" prompt but I can not ...

We have a new v125 server with 2GB memory, DVD drive and an XVR-100 graphics card. We had to power down the system (after approximately 10 days of constant running) due to fixed electrical testing. Now I can't even get to the ok> prompt. This is the output after a reboot at the sc> ...

Hi,I have some problems..So, there's one system I'm working with. It's made of 2 parts (both written in Java):- "normal" application, that works as a business logic server,- web application (build on Turbine framework, running on a Resin Application Server) - it works as a presentation ...

can anybody tell me how to assign IO boards in SUN15K server to a domain?whether the domain will reboot or need reboot after assigning?is there any concernt to be noted before this process?i have two IO boards in Available state with Unconfigured status. both are HPCI boards. this is my most ...

hey all,my new x4100s running linux sit at a load average of 8+, even when idle.this page http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg45814.htmlmentions a workaround, by rmmodding ohci_hcd - however that kills usb, which i need.any ideas?

Hey guys i really need some help im new to sun servers. Its a enterprise 250 and when i boot up it says drive not ready cant read disk label cant open disk label package than it says Boot device: net File and Args: than it just keeps saying timeout waiting for arp/rarp packet and just keeps ...

I upgraded an x4100 from SLES9 to SLES10 with 4 SAS drives which were configured as 2 RAID-1 volumes in hardware and am having problems with the names that these devices get.The root file-system was installed on the 1st volume, /dev/sda, and the other volume, /dev/sdb, was mounted at ...

We currently have a Sun Enterprise 450 that we would like to use as a fileserver. However, the condition is that we need to be able to get something faster than the Sun-shipped UltraSCSI-1 (40 MB/s) interfaces. We don't care about the bottom 4 drive slots (on-board controller). I'm fairly ...

Hello,I have v40z runing on SLES 9 SP3 with 2 x 146GB 10K. The storage SE3510 is also attached.When i measure internal hdd's transfer (LSI mirroring) it is so slow.Timing buffer-cache reads:4148 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2072.24 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:12 MB in 3.26 seconds =3.68 ...

And load averages reported by "uptime" show 5-12 vice normallywe see .01.Will happen over and over for 24+ hrs and then suddenly goes normal for 2 or more hrs.While the server is hung for 30s, can ping both Ethernet addresses from an external machine. Have a background "sar -o sar.out 5 ...

Hello,I have a Sunfire V210 and I am connected this server from its SERIAL MGT port. I can see the sc prompt and do everything in it. However, when I use the "break" and "console -f" I can't can get the console mode; it just freezez. If the output-device of the BOP is different than LOMS ...

We would like to have a few VMware workstations installed on a server for product testing purposes in our company. These VMwares will include mostly MS Windows OS's and at most IIS installations too. Would the Sun Fire X2100 M2 be suitable for this purpose? How many VMware workstations could ...

Hello,I run a computational cluster of a mix of different machines, with all the compute nodes netbooted off of the head node.We were very pleased with our V20zs, so when time came to order more, we ordered x2200s.However, we're seeing random network dropouts from the machines, where we cannot ...

Hi All ,I am not much clear about hardware errors. Kindly go through the below error messages from /var/adm/messages and give your explanation.Messages from /var/adm/messagesDec 8 07:18:48 ORAPRN2 rmclomv: [ID 512354 kern.error] Input power unavailable for PSU @ PS0.Dec 8 07:18:48 ORAPRN2 ...

I don't have much experience with servers and this thing is really kicking my butt.We have a Sun StorEdge 3310a which is currently not even being recognized.It says the device/hardware is not recognized.We have tried to find the driver it needs, but have had no luck.A search on this site ...

I have Cobalt Linux 6.0 installed on my old Qube 3. However, I am trying to install Cobalt Linux 6.4. I go ahead and try installing via NFS (netboot) and it goes through all of the steps, I power down, power back up, only to find that 6.0 is still installed. Am I missing something here? Any ...

Hi Support,I cannot see the tape drive 0 in /dev/rmt/ folder after connecting SDLT 600 tape drive to a sun StorEdge PCI dual Ultra320 SCSI host adapter installed in Sun Fire V440 Server.I did download the latest cluster patch and driver patches for solaris 9 (sparc) from Sun site and install ...

Hi everybody,in my company we have a Sun Enterprise 3500 that is not used anymore.One of our server has Tomcat 5.5 for an internal application, it runs on a double Pentium 4 3.0Ghz with serial ata HDs.I'm wondering if it could be better migrate tomcat 5.5 with our application under Sun ...

Hello,We are running a couple of SunFire V210. These servers are doing their job and we never have to touch them, this is the main reason why we have no expertise on these servers.One of the servers indicators is actually yellow, so I reckon I must have some Hardware issue with it. Is there any ...

I have several x4100's with RHEL4 and Centos installed on it.I am trying to monitor the hardware and the raid via nagios but can not find any kind of cli's to pull the information from to make a check script.can anyone help ?

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I have a dual proc X2200 and I'm wanting to expand the memory in it.I know I have to at least upgrade the server in pairs, my question isdo I have to do it in pairs for both processors at the same time, orcan I do one bank at a time? It appears that each processor has accessto it's individual ...

Hello all,I found the following message on one our E450 Server, runningSolaris 8:Dec 10 14:59:37 revera dptelog: [ID 295267 daemon.notice] The Battery Status Change Trickle Charging => Predictive Failure at Sun Dec 10 14:59:23 2006. Can anyone out there shed some light on what this message ...

Hi everybody,I'm trying to install Sun solaris 10 on a Sun Enterprise 3500.Boot CD is ok, then after i set my country region , time and date, the installation begins and soon it tells me "No Disks found check to make sure disks are cabled and powered up".Well I check the HDs cables seems to be ...

Customer installed new java application on a T2000 and the application seems to be very slow compared to a S25K where the same application is also installed and runs correctly.

Okay, coming from an HP environment where if we zoned and masked new disks to a host we did this to see them...ioscan -fninsf -eBingo, can see and talk to new disks, and use them, all online, no reboot required.How do I do this in SUN, solaris 10 mostly, although 8/9 steps are helpful too. ...

it shows all info from hyper terminal via 25 pin cable but i m not able to give commands from it

sun v480 in startup shows falet errorand not booting automaticallyit shows ERROR: (0201) Invalid "RO" Container Header TagFAULT: Motherboard/Centerplane FRU SEEPROMFATAL: Errors encountered in core system config probeConfiguration error mask 0000.0000.0000.0100Aborting auto-boot ...

i have t3 storage i want to check whether it has raid controller or notit is asking for login name and passwordwhich i dont have so how can i proceed

Hi All,I am new to solaris, i have a Sun Fire V280R when i logged into the system and type "uname - a" the output iam getting isSunOS mysystem 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000this displays the server as Sunblade-1000, why is that so? is it becoz of the patch level or ...

My company purchased a V-215 server and lo and behold we can't do anything with it because we didn't get a DB-9 adapter with it. It's not listed in the kit contents either. So when you purchase a entry level server from Sun, it really means that you already need Sun specific adapters from ...

For some reason OS X's Java will not run the remote KVM. It works fine on Windows, Linux and about any other platform I have tried, but I'm running 10.4.8 on a PPC (have tried several workstations) and when I first log in through the web interface (Safari, have tried Opera and Firefox too), I ...

I have an Enterprise 250 server that refuses to boot. It stopped responding and when I got to the console, it looked like it had attempted to reboot and was unable to. Since then, I've tried getting it to boot both from the disks and from a CD and run into the same problem. Auto-Boot is turned ...

Hello every body,I am beginner in administration of SUN solaris and SUN hardware. I have question on how to detect if HDD on SUN box is corrupted. We are using SUN Fire V440 with Solaris 8.0.Thanks Peter

Hi,I've just recently installed an HP 9600 series SCSI CD-Writer into an Ultra 30 system.Question: Where do I hook up the sound output of the CD-Writer onto the motherboard? Or better yet, is there documentation showing me where to connect the soud cable from the CD-writer to the ...

What should I do?What should the jumpers on the CD-Writer be set at?Thank you,JamesMessage was edited by: jfalknor

Does anybody know what the maximum size harddrive is for an Ultra 30.I've been able to put a 40+ gig harddrive into an Ultra 5, but the Uktra 30 does not seem to accept a 38+ gig harddrive. It gives a trap error that I can't remember off hand.Thank you,James

We need to get a SCSI CDROM drive for this server. Hoping someone can tell me if any such drive would be ok or if we have to target specific models. TIA,Jim

Hi,I have an E3500 server.The variables "output-device" and "input-device" of the Open Boot PROM was incorrectly changed to "ttya". The correctly values are "console" and "keyboard".Now I can磘 use the keybord and monitor to access the server and I can磘 connect via telnet or other way to the ...

Hi,I am Yousuf Syed and I am Sun Solaris certified System Administrator (SA1/SA2). Actually I required Sun Solairs 10 System Admin Material.Regards,Yousuf Syed

Hi All,I'm trying to work out why when I type ok>boot the server keeps booting off the network. It's almost as it does not find any disks and then since diag-device is set to net it tries that instead. The same happens even if I do an init 6 or reboot from solaris?the output from eeprom ...

HI ALL !I have problems booting up my Sun Fire E2900, cause IB6/P0/B1 has been flagged as disabled. Dyring bootinig lom print this message:Mon Jan 08 04:16:52 MY-lomi lom: [ID 177250 local0.warning] IO bus 1 on IO {/N0/IB6/P0} is CHS disabled.When system entering in OBPgiv error like:WARNING: ...

As the subject line says, I'm working with an x4200. The server has 4x 2GB RAM modules, for a total of 8192 MB of physical RAM. However, the BIOS only recognizes 7.5 GB, and there is no indication of what is happening with the other 0.5 GB of RAM. Has anyone seen this benavior?The OS sees 7680 ...

I has error during boot process:NOTICE: CPU 1 has 1024/2048 MB of memory disabledWhat it's mean? Memory microchip broken?

Hello all,During post when it recognises the CPU speed and cache settings it puts an astrix by one of the CPU`s.why does it do this as it pass all internal diagnosticsa and does not appear to be faulty ?Any suggestions welcome.

Hi All, This maybe a stupid question but i still would like to know the answer.We have a E450 with dual SPARC 302mhz CPUs, can this server run 64-bit software? We are trying to upgrade to Oracle 10g but it only supports 64-bit. Thanks for any input.

Hi,I have checked Sunsolve and it is mentioned that the minimum requirement would for Solaris 8 would be HW 07/03 (requires mandatory patch 109885-15).My existing server runs on Solaris 8 HW 5/03.Do I need to upgrade to HW 07/03 to support the 1.33Ghz CPU?What are the steps that need to be ...

I installed a Linux distro on a solaris box, now I want to go back to solaris (the I/O benchmarks on linux were very disappointing, but I guess something to be expected after reading around).Hardware: Sunfire v240Installing OS: Solaris 10Interface: ALOM/consoleI end up getting through the ...

Need help interpreting the following red state exception:Error enable reg: 0000.0001.00f0.001fCPU: 0000.0000.0000.0001TL=0000.0000.0000.0005 TT=0000.0000.0000.0064TPC=0000.0000.f000.4c80 TnPC=0000.0000.f000.4c84 TSTATE=0000.0044.8004.1406TL=0000.0000.0000.0004 ...

I experience problem with E250 recently. At 1st, I cannot telnet to the server, and when i try to login to the server locally, it doesn't recognize my username and password.I ve to force shutdown d server and do a system reboot.We already upgrade the memory to the max i.e. 2G. And also ...