Solaris system manager from munich, germany i used to work for sun microsystems support emea for 5 years. Usb flash disk on solaris sun solaris emailglarlut. But what i do not understand is the need of having such files. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. In solaris 10 got an interesting feature to enable ssl for any service by. The device is unavailable and no devinfo node or device driver exists for this device. Setup vlan on solaris i have 3 servers which are run on windows server 2003 and solaris 10. After an oracle solaris 11 system is installed, two separate volumes are created as a swap device and a dump device. Under solaris this is typically logical device ce0, and physically this is the ethernet rj45. The sudo utility is composed of the following three packages. To demonstrate how this can manually be decoded, well look at the.
The open boot prom obp aliases in solaris sparc environments are created to simplify the access to hardware devices using user friendly names. The devfs file system described in the devfs7fs man page is used by the solaris system to manage devices. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. Root password for system maintenance controld to bypass. Formatting disks for solaris fun with virtualization. Each element in this namespace represents the physical path to a hardware device, pseudo device, or nexus device.
Check with fuser c pseudo device and fuser ck pseudo device and try the uninstall of powerpath if still the issue there 3. Moreover, although eoib uses the solaris ib framework, the command does. It can be used, for example, to monitor the effect of ifconfig on the network card. So the system first looks for the disk with alias rootdisk and if its not bootable it goes for the 2nd disk i. I do understand the concept of they not being physically present. Since these thin clients dont use regular desktop hardware and are only able to communicate with solaris we wanted to maintain the original experience and. Here the primary boot device is set to a device alias, rootdisk. If so umount them and try the uninstall of powerpath if still the issue there 2. Vxvm is only reporting two veritas disk access da names.
Logical device files in the dev directory are symbolically linked to physical device files in the devices directory. Jul 06, 2010 if you are on solaris11, you may use following command to get the information about nics. They can be used in place of the full obp hardware path at the ok prompt. The aperture driver does essentially what xsvc does in solaris 2. Under normal circumstances, an administrator could use the emc powerpath commands to obtain this information ie. In unixlike operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. I n oracle solaris 10 releases, a ufs root environment provides one disk slice for both swap and dump devices. Hi sorry for the silly question i need to download a package sunwqlcx. At first you have to gather it from the sun download center. Installing solaris 10 on a sunfire v210 via network arm blog. Solaris 10 10 08 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another, logical domains support for dynamically reconfigurable disk and network io, and paravirtualization support when solaris 10 is used as a guest os in xenbased.
This greatly speeds up deployments in an environment where solaris vms need to be built quickly. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana. So i put it here in hopes of aiding anyone looking to do a dri port for solaris. When you add a new type of device such as a quad ethernet controller, the major number table gets updated and the boards devices are identified starting with minor number 0. I need help to analyze the logs of 3 servers configured with solaris 10. I cannot seem to find download for packages, any ideas where i can get this package.
Sunwsudor contains configuration files, which are installed in etc directory. I bought a sparc netra t105 ultrasparcii server on ebay which requires a network install as there is no cdrom, or. So ill give it just enough resources to install and configure a healthy solaris 10 kernel. Irq19 is being shared by drivers with different interrupt levels. Solaris specialists blog everything about solaris page 8. Solaris device driver and dlpi programming examples. Solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk azizs blog. Also, in what kinda of applications will pseudo device files be helpful. I have been playing with xen on solaris 10, and frankly it should have. But xsvc source is not publically available, whereas this source is available. Logical device names are used with most solaris file system commands to refer to devices. Beginning with the solaris 10 os, devices is a virtual filesystem that creates these subdirectories and special files on demand. The following procedure uses sparc platform as an example but the steps remain the same for x86 platform as well. These special files allow an application program to interact with a device by using its device driver via standard inputoutput system calls.
The alternate boot device is specified using the devalias mirrordisk. Solaris zfs based ldoms can be cloned either by command or even by script. So i need to know the name of the pseudo file in open call of driver code. Discussions related to using virtualbox on solaris hosts. There are also special files in dos, os2, and windows. It adds in pseudo devices, such as the kernel memory interface and the pseudo tty devices used for network logins, and assigns minor numbers to the devices recorded in devices. How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas netbackup. Hi all, i got a two node oracle rac cluster, running on solaris 10 with power path version 5. A shell script relying on devices entries is broken. Sun fire v440 keeps on rebooting very often sun fire v440 keeps on rebooting very often sunny1504 technicaluser. Whether installing a scsi controller or even an additional ide disk to a sun solaris machine, the solaris os will. The solaris 10 guest domain, scrappy has just been restarted. Sunwsudou contains sudo binaries and documentation.
I bought a sparc netra t105 ultrasparcii server on ebay which requires a network install as there. Solaris 10 enable solaris 10 automount debug output. The instance name represents the kernels abbreviation name for every possible device on the system. Oracle how to guidehow to use oracle solaris dtrace from oracle solaris and opensolaris system 7 you can use this command or script by replacing the 1234 with the pid of the process in which you are interested. Virtualbox guest start crashes openindiana host illumos.
Removing invalid disk device files devdsk and devrdsk. Aug 28, 2006 the author is the creator of nixcraft and a seasoned sysadmin, devops engineer, and a trainer for the linux operating systemunix shell scripting. Managing devices in the oracle solaris os oracle solaris. Looking in the device tree and doing a longlisting ls l we see that this minor number maps to this device. I have configured powerpath to have the pseudo devices for my luns in server. Repeated, frequent instances of messages related to the devinfo pseudo device are seen in the system messages file. The solaris 7 devinfo command performs a different function from the sunos. I sometimes want to access my home network when working remotely in order to access my private files or machines in my network. For more information about the devices file system, see the devfs7fs man page. It is permanently linked to the streams device to be monitored.
Page 3 of 6 a blog about arm based systems and other tech stuff. Oct 23, 2011 this is the minor number of the sd device. I want to keep the device to pseudo name mapping intact even after reinstalling the powerpath software. Pls help me to analyze some logs from the expert community at experts exchange. Oracles formerly sun microsystems ldom virtualization technology can be automated and greatly simplified when combined with the zfs filesystem. Im sure a real solaris guru can expand on this, but im pretty sure your block device will be devdskc0t216000c0ff89cbf8d11s4, and the raw device dev. I am consistently getting the following messages in my solaris messages file on the the servers just before they reboot unexpectedly. When viewed via the devalias command at the prom level, they are listed in the form of the alias name followed by the. Aset performs seven tasks, making specific checks and adjustments to system files and permissions to ensure system security. Pseudo drivers scsi can be viewed as a command set and a set of hardware buses that convey that command set.
Find answers to problem with solaris 8 sparc sun ultra 10 wp event on cpu0 from the expert community at experts exchange submit. The following steps can be used to build a d script using the pid provider. You too can understand device numbers and mapping in. How to install and configure sudo in solaris 10 sparc and. I dont really understand the logs, please help server 1. Removing invalid disk device files devdsk and devrdsk by jeff hunter, sr. For versions up to 2005 solaris 9, solaris was licensed under a license that permitted a customer to buy licenses in bulk, and install the software on any machine. It should use the documented and supported dev entries instead. I was having a weird issue with one of my solaris 10 guest domains. Usb, ieee 94 and those buses not defined by the various scsi standards.
To display ib device information, use the following command syntax. Which file on solaris 10 software cdrom 2 contains the software required to create a device configuration assistant boot diskette. Consequently, in searching the device tree information for the same minor number, we see that this device also correlates to this standard cxtxdxsx mapping. There is probably no need to know what the directory and file names in the devices tree means unless you are a kernel developer. Make sure you select the option in your dvd creation software to create a dvd from an iso image. Managing devices in the oracle solaris os oracle docs.
My attached tape drive has been throwing 2009 errorsafter running a couple commands earlier, i rebooted my library through the sun admin gui. Device names are usually not portable between different unixlike system variants, for example, on some bsd systems, the ide devices are named devwd0, devwd1, etc. Part of the unix paradigm is that everything is a file and programs can use file operations read andor write to interact with the system, so to load up randomness for crypto functions, you do a file read on devrandom or devurandom which connects you to the rng. Create disk device files under the hardware device tree devices. The device files in the devices directory are also called the device tree. How to identify the boot device primary and alternate in. Sometimes this output is not always available, especially since sun explorer script does not collect it. Displaying ib device information managing devices in oracle. I am convinced, but would like confirmation if this is the reason. The default value for the resource control names related to above four ipc tunables on solaris 10 are. Solaris device driver links solaris driver development. If above 2 will not work, reboot the system to single user non cluster mode. The solaris 10 system software includes aset, which helps you monitor and control system security by automatically performing tasks you would otherwise do manually.
Get the latest tutorials on sysadmin, linuxunix and open source topics via rssxml feed or weekly email newsletter. I once reinstalled the powerpath and found that the pseudo names are changing. Opening up the samba ports for example in your router to the bad world outside is the most stupid thing to do, so in order to gain access we need to setup a vpn connection. This manifest will let you run cvs as a service on your solaris 10 express machine. Problem with solaris 8 sparc sun ultra 10 wp event on. You too can understand device numbers and mapping in solaris. Cannot uninstall powerpath on sun solaris host error.
Those hardware buses can be further divided into those used exclusively for scsi e. Sunwsudos contains source code of sudo installing sudo packages. Along those lines, i have a page with guesses on what is needed to do a dri port for solaris. Implementing a jumpstart server the following tasks are required to configure a basic jumpstart server. Having some issues with my tape drive sun storagetek sl 48. A kernel module is a hardware or software component that is used to perform a.
On windows vista 32bit with guest os solaris 10 32bit. Luckily the solaris 10 sparc dvd can be freely downloaded from the oracle website and contains a live dvd image. Use the devalias command to see the physical device path for the bootdevice. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate.