Hi all,I got an urgent case and need help. After one maintenance reboottonight, our Sun V240 server (running Solaris 10) got problem with thelike below:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device: /pci at 1c,600000/scsi at 2/disk at 0,0:a File and args:SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118822-27 ...

We're thinking about replacing our DNS servers and consolidating somedisparate DNS systems into one nice big happy DNS family. We are thinkingthe SunFire V215 and/or V245 would be a good platform, with its redundantpower supplies and multiple CPU capability. We haven't had the opportunity ...

HI all,Maybe a stupid question, has anyone every managed to devise a way to usea screen and keyboard with a SunFire V1280. It has no keyboard input bydefault.Just wondered if anyone had ever found a way round it. It's notessential, I know I can use the network management port, and Exceed ...

I have an x86 system running Solaris 10, current release, patched upto Recommended patch level as of a couple of weeks ago.After the system has been up a few hours, the 3c509c NIC (elxl0) seemsto simply fade out of existence. Network hangs, or becomes extremelyslow. Only a reboot brings it ...

One of our research groups would like to upgrade the disks in their SunFire 280R. The server came with two 36.4 GB 10k FC-AL disks and they wouldlike to bum them to around 300 GB. Our local Sun office says they can onlyprovide 73.4 GB disks. I am guessing because these were the largestavailable ...

Hi All,Have any one done Shell script to automate the VXVM tasks for belowMirroring,Creation of Disk Group,Adding/Removing/Growing LV,Relayout and Growing/Shrink VFS and Destroy a Disk group etcCan you please share those kind of scripts of any.-- Thanks & Regards,N. ...

Hi All,Have any one done Shell script to automate the VXVM tasks for belowMirroring,Creation of Disk Group,Adding/Removing/Growing LV,Relayout and Growing/Shrink VFS and Destroy a Disk group etcCan you please share those kind of scripts of any.-- Thanks & Regards,N. ...

Hello all,I have a problem for which I don't find a solution.I have a test system which was running Solaris 10 and had two zpools. The system disk died a horrible death earlier today (no raid :-( and of course no backup because it's only a test system), and has left me with three disks that ...

Managers,I have netback up server 5.1 running on solaris 8 on 420 R with 4 gb of ram.Now my company is planning to upgrade it to Redhat Enterprise 5 on DellPoweredge with 8gb of RAM. I am just wondering if anyone has ever tried tomigrate on different environment.I am planning to upgrade to ...

Hi:I cloned a Solaris 10 O/S (HW 06/06) over the network from a SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 server to a SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490 server like this:root at src # ufsdump 0f - / | ssh -l root dst "(cd /tmp/root; /usr/sbin/ufsrestore -rf -)"root at src # ufsdump 0f - /var | ssh -l root dst "(cd ...

Archive-name: codeprof-faq$Id: faq.html,v 1.29 2007/05/25 20:41:16 jdd Exp $ SunManagers Frequently Asked Questions This is collection of common questions posted to the codeprof mailing list twice a month. It is intended to benefit Sun System Managers and reduce traffic to the list by ...

Hi,Is there any Performance Tool Graphical which we canschedule for particular time ?Thanks & Regards ____________________________________________________________________________________Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. ...

Hi all,I have a pair of Ultra 10s running Solaris 7 which have beendisplaying a message in the logs during boot time. The messages looklike:Jul 12 21:39:12 hostname unix: WARNING: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 3/sd at 1,0 (sd1):Jul 12 21:39:12 hostname Error for Command: read(10) ...

Hi guru's,<p>Does any one of you know where I can find some good (in depth)<br>documentation about JET servers (master and slaves)?<p>Thx,<br>Kim DS.

Guys i've tried googling to no joy but logging into one of the boxes wesupport today seems to have the keyboard mapped incorrectly for UK.The rest of the machines are fine with uk mapping (Shift + 2 = ") butthe machine in questions gives @ which i believe is the American setting.Cant see ...

Gents,In a summary a few links where I found some documentation:Jet maui home page: http://jet.maui.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_PageYahoo jet group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JETJumpStart/Bigadmin http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/jet/While reading, I noticed there is a SUNWjetd package ...

What are aggr interfaces on the internal nic of a v210?<p>I thought they were bge's?<p>Having an issue with Solaris 10 patching..

hello all,is anybody successed in installing mathematica on solaris 10 amd64?They sent me a self-extracting archive (a binary containing install shell) and it failed on S10 6/06. I gave a try on Solaris Express Developper Edition (b64a), and the installation did more things. But unfortunately, ...

I have a script that runs every night. It uses the /etc/init.d/syslogscript to stop, then pwait to pause until the old syslogd dies, and then/etc/init.d/syslog to start a new syslog daemon.For some reason, syslogd doesn't always actually end and I'll log in andfind 15 syslogd processes ...

I have an ultra 60 which shuts down on its own in about three hours<br>after boot. Is there any power management config?<p>Thanks,<p>Abhimanyu.

Hi everyoneI9m trying to start BSM on a Solaris 10 box.I have a basic setup to monitor Login / Logouts of the system, whethersuccessful or not.I Ove run /etc/security/bsmconv and rebooted the system.On reboot I have root mail that reads...---------------------->From root at asterix Wed Jul ...

How can I clear the Last Erred error as shown below?# metastat d1d1: Mirror Submirror 0: d11 State: Needs maintenance Submirror 1: d21 State: Needs maintenance Pass: 1 Read option: roundrobin (default) Write option: parallel (default) Size: 4194828 blocksd11: ...

I have the following metadevice which is 100% full and now I need toincrease the size of it:-df -hl /ora2Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/md/dsk/d18 197G 194G 1.1G 100% /ora2Once I have added some space to d18 I then need to growfs the ...

Sun V280Solaris 9We use a standard backup script, which reboots the server and thenstarts the backup. They forgot to load a tape so the server is now satsaying no tape loaded with a flashing black square.I've tried all the usual key strokes to try and break free from the scriptbut to no ...

Hi All,When I try to install a new package the machine spits the followingerrorThe following package is currently installed: PkgNameSegmentation Fault (core dumped)And on trying to do a pkginfo I get the following error:pkginfo: ERROR: pkginfo file is corrupt or missingCould you please help ...

All, until just recently I could add users through SMC with templates thathave been in place for a year or more. Now when I select Action->AddUser->From Template I get the following warning in the console and thetemplate window never starts. From there it just hangs for as along as I ...

Hi All,I am using a SunFire V890 server running on solaris 8.0 with all latest patches.I have configured IPMP active- standby configurations on it the# ifconfig -a output islo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000ce0: ...

Hello Managers,This may sound wired but the fact is that I schedule a cron job yesterday torun it for coming Saturday 21st morning at 2 am. When I checked it today theentry is not there any more. This is a new install Solaris 9 09/05 release.Other then that I have installed clear case client ...

Hello,We installed IPFilter 4.1.x on our Sun Solaris 8 server a couple of daysago. The machine is running an NFS server and we are trying to secure itso that only our labs can access it.Problem is that some of the services (statd, mountd, ecc) are binding onrandom ports so we can't have rules ...

Hi All,The CDs of Solaris 10 that I had have gone for a toss..When I try to download CD images its going in an endless loop at sunsiteIs it that sun has stopped allowing the CD images for downloading.Help in this regard much awaited.regards,Santhosh.Onkarmobile:9900112456The information ...

Hello,I have a Sun Enterprise 250 server and a pci ide/raid controller with IT8212chip, because i need more disk space.Solaris 10 (SPARC) is running on the server.I installed the ide card and i attached one disk to this controller, but thesystem is not recognized it.What can i do, for use this ...

Hello,Has anyone else noticed the following behavior regarding Oracle's use ofshared memory, specifically around the shmmax (Solaris 8) andshm-max-memory (Solaris 10). Before we upgraded our servers from Solaris8, our Oracle 10G databases were grabbing just 1 large shared memorysegment for the ...

Hi all,In the end I received only two answers, both of which contained suggestions that I had already tried. In the end, I gave up trying to recover the "lost" storage pool. There seems to be no possibility to recover a zpool from another system when that system fell over. ...

Guru's,We are currently running into a performance problem due to the codebeing single threaded. We are currently trying to run Siebel 8 with ourown code on a new solaris v490 server. The problem is not the siebelcode but our own code. The code that we are trying to run is e-script.Our ...

Hi guys,I'm very new to solaris, and we just buy 6 enterprise 420 servers. ButI have a simple and easy question, can I use any dumb terminal toconfigure the machine or I really need a SUN terminal?And if I can use any terminal, what is the pinout I need to be able touse it!? I just try a ...

Original message:I have an ultra 60 which shuts down on its own in about three hoursafter boot. Is there any power management config?SUMMARY:check /etc/power.conf if your release of Solaris has that. If you wantto prevent a server (for example) from powering down, then the followingchanges ...

SUMMARY:Install SAN package from SUN (install_it) and reboot the server. Activate the SUN licensing on the IBM FASTt, configure LUN for the serverand everything works fine after!Thanks!--Sibastien RoyAdministrateur de Systhmes Senior / Senior System AdministratorPointPub Media Communications ...

Hey guys,Can I install Solaris 10 on a SUN Enterprise 420 with 4 CPU and 2 Gig RAM?! And how I can do a RAID5 if I have 2 disk drawer connected to myEnterprise 420!?Thanks!--Sibastien RoyAdministrateur de Systhmes Senior / Senior System AdministratorPointPub Media Communications Inc. - ...

Hi<p>In my /etc/resolv.conf file all entries are very perfect, still no<br>single domain is not resolving. Any solution ?<p>Thanks<p>Uma Maheswar

Hi All,I am using a SunFire V890 server running on solaris 8.0 with all latest patches.I have configured IPMP active- standby configurations on it the# ifconfig -a output islo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000ce0: ...

Hello All,Our DBA's were able to uncover the mystery for us. It seems that Oracle,running on Solaris 10, has purposely broken up the SGA into multiplesegments for performance improvements. See Oracle Metalink Note: 399261.1(10G SGA is split in multiple shared memory segments). To disable ...

Hi All,I am using a SunFire V890 server running on solaris 8.0 with all latestpatches.I have configured IPMP active- standby configurations on it the# ifconfig -a output islo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000ce0: ...

Hey guys,Can I install Solaris 10 on a SUN Enterprise 420 with 4 CPU and 2 Gig RAM?! And how I can do a RAID5 if I have 2 disk drawer connected to myEnterprise 420!?Thanks!I think I just badly explain my stuff. We have 2 disk enclosure of 10disks (36Gig) each! So a total of 20 disks ...

Hello Fellow Admins,We're planning on introducing HA to our DNS service by using the Sun Cluster solution.Any opinions and recommendations on how to implement it and what to avoid?Appreciate all the responses.-- Oskar Pienkos Systems Analyst604.291.3959 Operations and Technical Supportoskar ...

Sun Managers,I've got a Sun storedge 3300 RAID that has a Solaris 8/Veritas 4.0 RAID0+1 filesystem on it. Currently we have the RAID populates with 7 disks(3 striped w/ parity on one side > mirrored to 3 striped disks w/ parityon the other side with 1 logging/spare disk). We have ...

Dear Managers.I have recently started working on Solaris 10 and wanted to to adjustseveral kernel parameters and shared memory before the final imagebuild. I am already running couple of systems in my staging environemtbut most of the testing I am doing are directed towards Veritas 5.0MP1.I ...

Hi Guru's,I am not able to access an Ultra60 Keyboard it throws an error"Invalid tty input device not found" ( not the exact phrases )In spite of me trying with three different sets of keyboards ( the LEDson the key board do blink of when the system is rebooted)Could some one help me ...

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Hi All,I have installed afresh OS sol 10And I do a pkginfopkginfo: ERROR: pkginfo file is corrupt or missingit throws the above errorI don't have a clue what to doI tried this -cd /var/sadm/pkgfor i in *doecho "============================================"echo $i :pkginfo -i ...

Hi All,I have the following partition :Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 4.8G 4.7G 13M 100% //devices 0K 0K 0K 0% /devicesctfs 0K 0K 0K 0% /system/contractproc 0K 0K 0K 0% ...