On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:48:42AM -0800, Mike Christensen wrote:
> 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.
6519768 requests the LDom Manager to display binding info for configurations
saved on the SP
6674581 Support for LDom Manager viewing all saved configs
For rf platforms, I'm implementing a way to at least list the names of the
saved configs from the SC, probably with some minimal information about the
config like timestamp and number of guests.
kvn
>
> Mike
>
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