On 01/21/10 06:29, Andras Spitzer wrote: > Mike, > > Thanks for the clarification. This question will be a bit off-topic, but as > far as I know today there is no possible way/command to view the > configurations stored on the SC, is this correct? We can add, remove, or > activate configurations on the SC, but we can't view their contents.
Yes, that's correct. The format of the SP config's is a set of binary Machine Descriptions (MDs) - the same format as what you'd get from /dev/mdesc. We have crude dump utilities for the binaries, but no "pretty printer". Nothing close to something that could be given to a user. And, FWIW, the autosave configs are stored as a set of these MD binaries also (each with a 296 byte "autosave header" prepended) at: /var/opt/SUNWldm/autosave-<config_name>/* if you want to look at them. Doing a 'strings' on the files may give you some clue what the config looks like (e.g. if you do 'strings hv-md.bin', the ldom domain names are part of the output, usually at the end, I think). If you're booted on a config, and it hasn't already been autosaved, you can force an autosave of it by doing some innocuous change of the config, like a set-var. > If that's the case, at least do we have an RFE for this? That would be really > handy to see a config on the SC from the OS before I decide to select it and > boot it. I'm not aware of an RFE for this. And there isn't really an easy way to grab a config off the SP to (say) a file on the control domain, so you'd need that functionality also. I vaguely remember an RFE for grabbing a copy of an SP config, but I can't find it right now. Mike
