Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Craig and All, craig.ben...@oracle.com said: Just curious as to what benefit you'd get over just LAN based and a manual DHCP config when the network wire itself is private? Well, the simply answer is because I have always done it that way :-) The longer answer (or at least my thoughts) go like this... We run a set of around half a dozen class C networks. Our end users with PCs, Apples and other devices connect to one of our networks. Most of our server class machines have mutliple interfaces and I tend to make them all live. Thus, most of our servers have multiple IP addresses. Thus, when users connect to a server (for whatever reason, computation, file access, web access or whatever) they reach (most) of the servers via a switched network path and their traffic does not cross any routers. On the same vein of thought, I have tried to run our SunRays on their own network with just SunRays, one interface from each SunRay Server and switches involved. Thus, SunRay traffic does not make its way on to otyher networks and other traffic does not make its way into the SunRay private network. As this was all very easy to create usingutadm -a nxge1 (or whatever on other architectures) I have always done it that way. I am trying to tackle two problems at the moment. One being users (students) complaining about the old fashioned interface of Solaris 10 and the other being that we have been seeing quite slow interactive response when running many applications displaying on the SunRays. [Things like netbeans, firefox and others stagger somewhat when moving between windows etc., plus the other sorts of problems other have noted.] On the poor interactive response front, I have done all the things people have suggested, setting hires_tick=1 in /etc/system, engineering the network so that the connections to our current two servers and the sunrays all make landfall directly on the same switch, dropping the switch port to the server back down to 100mbps to try to avoid packet loss anywhere and so on. Nothing makes much difference. I have tracked new versions of SunRay server software as they were realeased (one that came out last autumn made a big improvement I should add). Whenever I try to collect statistics on packet loss (or whatever) by using utcapture or looking at switch statistics I never seen to locate any bad numbers at all... Anyway, I have digressed. I do not expect swapping to Solaris 11 on the servers will improve performance of the SunRay service (but it would be nice if it did) but at least I may get the users believing they have a more modern user interface. Anyway, I will think more about what you say. I will need DHCP services for the SunRays, but if I read correctly, running utadm -A 192.168.199.0 would start a DHCP server one the sunray server and thus server the SunRays anyway - yes? And, providing I have this all rigged as a closed network (at the swicth/ethernet level) then I should not get spurious traffic in our out of the netwoerk unless the machine(s) running the SunRay server software starting forwarding IP packets between othjer interfaces and the SunRay serving interfaces. I guess I can control IP forwarding and route announcements using other tools (I guess ipadm and routeadm in Solaris 11). Anyway, thanks for info, thoughts and advice. I will have a go shorlty and post things again later. Thanks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Craig and All, craig.ben...@oracle.com said: 2) utsetup will fail because utsetup tries to install patches via a mechanism that is incompatible with S11 *BUT THAT'S OK* :) The product will be installed. Minus patches at this point. From what others said, and from looking myself, it seems the only things actually in the patches are a new version of utdevmgrd and Xnewt. Could I not manually copy them into /opt/SUNWut/lib/utdevmgrd and /opt/SUNWut/lib/Xnewt or would that break things? Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
didnt break for me. the package data itself is affected obviously, but thats not too important at this stage. toomas On 23.08.2012, at 15:24, Dave Price dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Dear Craig and All, craig.ben...@oracle.com said: 2) utsetup will fail because utsetup tries to install patches via a mechanism that is incompatible with S11 *BUT THAT'S OK* :) The product will be installed. Minus patches at this point. From what others said, and from looking myself, it seems the only things actually in the patches are a new version of utdevmgrd and Xnewt. Could I not manually copy them into /opt/SUNWut/lib/utdevmgrd and /opt/SUNWut/lib/Xnewt or would that break things? Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Yes, you can! There's a map in the patch or follow reloc path, but you know where they go already. Only other advice is to what you do when moving in any file e.g. double check ownership, set any setG/Uid bits, verify perms. You should be golden. :) On 8/23/12 5:24 AM, Dave Price wrote: Dear Craig and All, craig.ben...@oracle.com said: 2) utsetup will fail because utsetup tries to install patches via a mechanism that is incompatible with S11 *BUT THAT'S OK* :) The product will be installed. Minus patches at this point. From what others said, and from looking myself, it seems the only things actually in the patches are a new version of utdevmgrd and Xnewt. Could I not manually copy them into /opt/SUNWut/lib/utdevmgrd and /opt/SUNWut/lib/Xnewt or would that break things? Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Craig, craig.ben...@oracle.com said: Yes, you can! There's a map in the patch or follow reloc path, but you know where they go already. Only other advice is to what you do when moving in any file e.g. double check ownership, set any setG/Uid bits, verify perms. You should be golden. :) Thanks for that. I have so far found enough time to get as far as having just run utpolicy. I keep regularly taking new BEs and rebooting so I can fall back a step (or more) should something go pear-shaped... I will create a new BE now and then more those two updated file into place... Thanks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Craig, Toomas and All, I have run utinstall, utconfig and utpolicy. I have also used ipadm to bring up net1 and allocated a static IP address 192.168.199.7 I have also updated the /etc/inet/hosts file so that its IP address from net0 (which also ends 7 but has a different class C netnumber at front) and hostname are on a new line and its name is not on the localhost line. I also manually moved the Xnewt and utdevmgrd from the patches into their normal places and checked permissions. With all that done, I created a new BE and rebooted into it so I can roll back if things go wrong. I also have LOTS of BEs# from previous milestones too. So, now I am trying to run utadm -A 192.168.199.0 Now, when I do that I get root@wiked:~# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utadm -A 192.168.199.0 ### Configuring /etc/nsswitch.conf ### Configuring Service information for Sun Ray cp: cannot access /etc/init.d/dhcp chmod: WARNING: can't access /etc/init.d/dhcp.1674 /usr/bin/nawk: can't open file /etc/init.d/dhcp.1674 source line number 1 ### Error: Unable to stop dhcp services. Please restart dhcp manually after utadm has completed. root@wiked:~# So, does -A not work either ? or... After I reboot into a fresh BE again, I can look in /etc/init.d before I run utadm. And, lo and behold, there is no /etc/init.d/dhcp script. I had loaded dhcp packages much earlier in this tale of course you may recall and they are still there. root@wiked:~# svcs -a | grep dhcp disabled 17:18:08 svc:/network/dhcp-server:default disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4 disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6 disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4 disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv6 root@wiked:~# pkg list '*dhcp*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSIONIFO network/dhcp/dhcpmgr 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- network/dhcp/dhcpmgr/locale 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.1.765 i-- service/network/dhcp 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/datastore/binfiles 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/isc-dhcp 4.1-0.175.0.0.0.2.537 i-- root@wiked:~# so, I have got the DHCP packages and services, but I don't have a DHCP server active. Of course, without the SunRays I don't need it active anyway as we have another machine providing DHCP services to our normal class C IP networks. I only want this machine wiked to provide DHCp to the SunRays and I though from readin the utadm man page that running with -A should indeed interact with the dhcp config and turn it on. So, have I missed a step, or is srs expecting another flavour of DHCP server and not the one that I have added to Solaris 11. Craig: I am re-reading one of your earlier emails and I see you writing words that just might be saying I have to do the DHCP setup myself and perhaps implying that utadm -A 192.168.199.0 will not work... Advice/comments folks? Thanks, Dave price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
dhcpd is managed by smf now but you can create dummy script there and remove after... also beware the /etc/rc?.d directories;) On 23.08.2012, at 19:29, Dave Price dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Dear Craig, Toomas and All, I have run utinstall, utconfig and utpolicy. I have also used ipadm to bring up net1 and allocated a static IP address 192.168.199.7 I have also updated the /etc/inet/hosts file so that its IP address from net0 (which also ends 7 but has a different class C netnumber at front) and hostname are on a new line and its name is not on the localhost line. I also manually moved the Xnewt and utdevmgrd from the patches into their normal places and checked permissions. With all that done, I created a new BE and rebooted into it so I can roll back if things go wrong. I also have LOTS of BEs# from previous milestones too. So, now I am trying to run utadm -A 192.168.199.0 Now, when I do that I get root@wiked:~# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utadm -A 192.168.199.0 ### Configuring /etc/nsswitch.conf ### Configuring Service information for Sun Ray cp: cannot access /etc/init.d/dhcp chmod: WARNING: can't access /etc/init.d/dhcp.1674 /usr/bin/nawk: can't open file /etc/init.d/dhcp.1674 source line number 1 ### Error: Unable to stop dhcp services. Please restart dhcp manually after utadm has completed. root@wiked:~# So, does -A not work either ? or... After I reboot into a fresh BE again, I can look in /etc/init.d before I run utadm. And, lo and behold, there is no /etc/init.d/dhcp script. I had loaded dhcp packages much earlier in this tale of course you may recall and they are still there. root@wiked:~# svcs -a | grep dhcp disabled 17:18:08 svc:/network/dhcp-server:default disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv4 disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/relay:ipv6 disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4 disabled 17:18:16 svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv6 root@wiked:~# pkg list '*dhcp*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO network/dhcp/dhcpmgr 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- network/dhcp/dhcpmgr/locale 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.1.765 i-- service/network/dhcp 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/datastore/binfiles 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/isc-dhcp 4.1-0.175.0.0.0.2.537 i-- root@wiked:~# so, I have got the DHCP packages and services, but I don't have a DHCP server active. Of course, without the SunRays I don't need it active anyway as we have another machine providing DHCP services to our normal class C IP networks. I only want this machine wiked to provide DHCp to the SunRays and I though from readin the utadm man page that running with -A should indeed interact with the dhcp config and turn it on. So, have I missed a step, or is srs expecting another flavour of DHCP server and not the one that I have added to Solaris 11. Craig: I am re-reading one of your earlier emails and I see you writing words that just might be saying I have to do the DHCP setup myself and perhaps implying that utadm -A 192.168.199.0 will not work... Advice/comments folks? Thanks, Dave price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Toomas, tso...@mac.com said: dhcpd is managed by smf now but you can create dummy script there and remove after... also beware the /etc/rc?.d directories;) yes, I had of course realised the SMF manages DHCP (as it does for most other things), but other than that, do you reckon utadm -A 192.168.199.1 will have set up dhcp configs o.k.? But thinking, it can't have as it has not asked me what ranges of IP addresses it can hand out. In the past, I have always been queried (but then of course I used -a which Craid said did not work). As I commented now many emails ago, I let our one DHCP server hand out something like 16 - 79 and the other hand our 60 - 123 (or whatever). I am now presuming I am going to have to do all that setup by hand if utadm is not going to ask the right questions - yes? Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
tbh, i dont know - I only have set srss on s11 without dhcp and only for lan enabled setup for soft client for test purposes:) the basic dhcp setup (dhcptab) is done by utadm -c, as you can verify with dhtadm -P :) with fake init.d dhcp start scrip, i'm sure you can get other bits done as well. toomas On 23.08.2012, at 19:45, Dave Price dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Dear Toomas, tso...@mac.com said: dhcpd is managed by smf now but you can create dummy script there and remove after... also beware the /etc/rc?.d directories;) yes, I had of course realised the SMF manages DHCP (as it does for most other things), but other than that, do you reckon utadm -A 192.168.199.1 will have set up dhcp configs o.k.? But thinking, it can't have as it has not asked me what ranges of IP addresses it can hand out. In the past, I have always been queried (but then of course I used -a which Craid said did not work). As I commented now many emails ago, I let our one DHCP server hand out something like 16 - 79 and the other hand our 60 - 123 (or whatever). I am now presuming I am going to have to do all that setup by hand if utadm is not going to ask the right questions - yes? Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Toomas, tso...@mac.com said: tbh, i dont know - I only have set srss on s11 without dhcp and only for lan enabled setup for soft client for test purposes:) the basic dhcp setup (dhcptab) is done by utadm -c, as you can verify with dhtadm -P :) with fake init.d dhcp start scrip, i'm sure you can get other bits done as well. Indeed, looking through the utadm script, it has the SMF reference to the dhcp server in it, line 116 says DHCP_FMRI=svc:/network/dhcp-server:default It sets a variable INIT_DHCP=/etc/init.d/dhcp; So, I reckon I'll edit that to point elsewhere and then I will grab a copy of the /etc/init/d/dhcp file off my Solaris 10 box and use that. Looking at the Solaris 10 version, that uses svcadm to control the DHCP server anyway. More later... dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC, with private interconnect
Dave: If you have a DHCP service, any DHCP service, that is visible to the Sun Ray DTUs why don't you create a scope limited to Vendor Id Tag SUNW.NewT.SUNW**and with appropriate IP addresses. Don't fiddle with all those other vendor tags, the better way to provide those, if needed, is thru the *.parms file(s) in /tftpboot. In your DNS, configure sunray-config-servers and sunray-servers to point to your SRS server. You can also deliver the config server through TFTPSRVR tag in you DHCP scope. Everything else is in your *.parms file(s), for example: servers=ipaddr1,...,ipaddrN select=[random|inorder] Finally, in your SRS configuration, just use /utadm -L on/ so the software will listen for incoming connection requests from the LAN. This is the modern way of setting up SRS networking and much easier than all the hackery you are having to do. I have done more than a few installs and have rarely used /utadm -a/. The only circumstance where I might do that would be if I need a local filling station to upgrade firmware in DTUs that for some odd reason didn't want to upgrade over the network. Art -- ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
[SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear All, Firstly, can I say thanks for all the comments and notes so far, much appreciated. A variety of attempts to install SunRay software on Solais 11 all failed yesterday... [yesterday, I was attempting to install WITHOUT having firmware installed, which it seems to claim should work - I was going to let SunRays use their existing firmware]. tso...@mac.com said: after that you need to follow normal SRSS configuration docs, http:// docs.oracle.com/cd/E25749_01/E25745/ html/Installing.html note the kiosk mode is still not working. for s11 management, follow s11 docs, not express ones - there may be some differences. I seem to have to do more than that... utsetup bombs out after installing just the SunRay server software and does not enter the stages where it asks questions. I then went back to an earlier clean BE of solaris 11 and tried again using utinstall etc. followed by other tools, but more problems... One problem that popped up at the end of rrunning utconfig was... = ** The current policy has been modified. You must restart the authentication manager to activate the changes. *** /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utconfig[1306]: /opt/SUNWuttsc/lib/uttscadm: not found [No such file or directory] Configuration of Sun Ray Server Software has completed. Please check the log file, /var/adm/log/utconfig.2012_08_21_13:41:11.log, for errors. === even though /opt/SUNWuttsc/lib/uttscadm seemed to exist. When I try to run utadm, that needs me to edit the /etc/inet/hosts file to have machine name on its own name with it primary IP address and not on the localhost line... So, it seems that the main instructions in the admin guide are not sufficient and I am going to need some hybrid of the old opensolaris/solaris express type bodges mixed in with the new admin instructions... To remind folks, I am doing a SunRay install on a T5140 with a fresh Solaris 11 installation and wanting primary IP address on net0, Sunray private interconnect on net1. [We also normally configure net2 and net3 as we normally run our main hosts multihomed with live IP interfaces on several different class-C IP networks.] Has anyone got any definitive notes of a complete install? I'll post more later after I do some more experiments. I am trying again with SunRay firmware installed as well today. Thanks folks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear All, A few minutes ago I said... dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk said: So, it seems that the main instructions in the admin guide are not sufficient and I am going to need some hybrid of the old opensolaris/ solaris express type bodges mixed in with the new admin instructions... So I am now looking at http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/SRS_5.1_on_Solaris_11_Express as well as the advice given to me yesterday and I am reading the lastest SunRay admin guide (august edition). The wiki page has material about changing between different flavours of IP interface control and wiki says... svcadm disable network/physical:nwam svcadm enable network/physical:default But my fresh Solaris 11 installation already has the second enabled but also has another service... online 17:50:52 svc:/network/physical:upgrade online 17:50:55 svc:/network/physical:default So can I assume that's o.k.? Thw wiki also says... update /etc/hosts to specify a static IP address for your hostname, and eliminate your hostname from the localhost line edit /etc/hostname.INTF to contain your hostname, where INTF is your network interface name (see ifconfig -a output) edit /etc/netmasks to contain the appropriate netmask for your subnet create /etc/defaultrouter containing the IP address or hostname of your subnet's router But from what I can see, ifconfig -a now only shows interfaces which are active and it seems to me that the correct way to handle IP / interfaces is to use the ipadm program and routeadm and so on. I notice we also have routing related services running on our fresh Solaris 11 installation. svcs | grep rout online 17:51:04 svc:/network/routing-setup:default online 17:51:08 svc:/network/routing/route:default online 17:51:15 svc:/network/routing/ndp:default So, should I be editing /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname.INTF, /etc/netmasks and /etc/defaultrouter or should I really be making changes another way now on Solaris 11?? I don't (at present) need Sunray windows connector (SWRC) running by the way as we don't use that at present. We only use our SunRays to get to Solaris machines. Anyway, if anyone has either some complete notes, or can offer comments on how much I need to do over and above SunRay admin guide and whether or not I do need to do all or some of the things from the http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/SRS_5.1_on_Solaris_11_Express wiki page.. Thanks for advice and help so far... Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
switching network config in S11 is *not* done as it was in opensolaris/express. to prepare networking in S11 for static setup, you need to do following: # netadm enable -p ncp DefaultFixed# switch to fixed IP config profile # use ipadm to create correct address(es) # route -p add default or edit /etc/defaultrouter to add default routing # svccfg -s svc:/system/identity:node setprop config/nodename = yourhostname #set nodename for host # svccfg -s svc:/system/identity:node refresh # svcadm restart identity:node set up your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf with proper content and import the config: # nscfg import -f svc:/system/name-service/switch:default # nscfg import -f svc:/network/dns/client:default also fix your hosts file. you dont need to touch nwam/default smf services at all. toomas On 22.08.2012, at 12:31, Dave Price dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, A few minutes ago I said... dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk said: So, it seems that the main instructions in the admin guide are not sufficient and I am going to need some hybrid of the old opensolaris/ solaris express type bodges mixed in with the new admin instructions... So I am now looking at http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/SRS_5.1_on_Solaris_11_Express as well as the advice given to me yesterday and I am reading the lastest SunRay admin guide (august edition). The wiki page has material about changing between different flavours of IP interface control and wiki says... svcadm disable network/physical:nwam svcadm enable network/physical:default But my fresh Solaris 11 installation already has the second enabled but also has another service... online 17:50:52 svc:/network/physical:upgrade online 17:50:55 svc:/network/physical:default So can I assume that's o.k.? Thw wiki also says... update /etc/hosts to specify a static IP address for your hostname, and eliminate your hostname from the localhost line edit /etc/hostname.INTF to contain your hostname, where INTF is your network interface name (see ifconfig -a output) edit /etc/netmasks to contain the appropriate netmask for your subnet create /etc/defaultrouter containing the IP address or hostname of your subnet's router But from what I can see, ifconfig -a now only shows interfaces which are active and it seems to me that the correct way to handle IP / interfaces is to use the ipadm program and routeadm and so on. I notice we also have routing related services running on our fresh Solaris 11 installation. svcs | grep rout online 17:51:04 svc:/network/routing-setup:default online 17:51:08 svc:/network/routing/route:default online 17:51:15 svc:/network/routing/ndp:default So, should I be editing /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname.INTF, /etc/netmasks and /etc/defaultrouter or should I really be making changes another way now on Solaris 11?? I don't (at present) need Sunray windows connector (SWRC) running by the way as we don't use that at present. We only use our SunRays to get to Solaris machines. Anyway, if anyone has either some complete notes, or can offer comments on how much I need to do over and above SunRay admin guide and whether or not I do need to do all or some of the things from the http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/SRS_5.1_on_Solaris_11_Express wiki page.. Thanks for advice and help so far... Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Toomas, Thanks for latest advice. I plan to start another go on a fresh BE shortly, just got caught up in admin meetings :-( I will report back... I am trying to keep definitive notes so I can post whole (hopefully sucessful) take later... Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
The basic model for Solaris installation is that LiveCD is intended for laptops or workstations, and Text installation or AI is intended for servers. They install different sets of packages which target the intended model. multi-user-desktop is an optional package (group) intended for desktop servers (i.e. Sun Ray). May I suggest that instead of using LiveCD for Sun Ray, you use the Text installer and then install group/feature/multi-user-desktop. This will do several useful things for you: 1. It will install a more minimal package subset for desktops. 2. It will configure networking appropriately for a server instead of a laptop (e.g. no NWAM, static address) 3. I will install the core dependent packages required by SRS (DHCP, CDE/Motif) 4. It will provide an SMF 'multi-user-desktop' service, which you can enable to provide some useful optimizations for Sun Ray deployments (mostly restricted choices for desktop users to mitigate desktop features that don't scale well in shared environments). We'd be interested in feedback regarding experiences with that service. There's a document that describes how to configure it, should you care to: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26032/index.html Finally, regarding the updates available through MOS: Patch packages are generally *not* complete packages. I suspect you're looking at the wrong place in the update image. The update image consists of two things: A copy (identical) of the initial release image (suitable for fresh installs or release upgrades), and a Patch directory containing patches, which consist of *partial* packages with just the updated binaries. Our installer will first install/upgrade the release if necessary, then apply any patches. This doesn't yet work for S11 since S11 isn't supported in SRS 5.3. SROS is the one exception. In that case since SUNWutdfw only contains firmware we do release a new complete package in an update and utfwinstall simply replaces it (which will work fine on S11). -Bob On 08/22/12 06:01, Dave Price wrote: Dear Toomas, Thanks for latest advice. I plan to start another go on a fresh BE shortly, just got caught up in admin meetings :-( I will report back... I am trying to keep definitive notes so I can post whole (hopefully sucessful) take later... Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
http://alanhargreaves.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/sun-ray-on-solaris-11-sparc/ Have you read this article? On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Dave Price dave.pr...@aber.ac.uk wrote: Dear All, Firstly, can I say thanks for all the comments and notes so far, much appreciated. A variety of attempts to install SunRay software on Solais 11 all failed yesterday... [yesterday, I was attempting to install WITHOUT having firmware installed, which it seems to claim should work - I was going to let SunRays use their existing firmware]. tso...@mac.com said: after that you need to follow normal SRSS configuration docs, http:// docs.oracle.com/cd/E25749_01/E25745/ html/Installing.html note the kiosk mode is still not working. for s11 management, follow s11 docs, not express ones - there may be some differences. I seem to have to do more than that... utsetup bombs out after installing just the SunRay server software and does not enter the stages where it asks questions. I then went back to an earlier clean BE of solaris 11 and tried again using utinstall etc. followed by other tools, but more problems... One problem that popped up at the end of rrunning utconfig was... = ** The current policy has been modified. You must restart the authentication manager to activate the changes. *** /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utconfig[1306]: /opt/SUNWuttsc/lib/uttscadm: not found [No such file or directory] Configuration of Sun Ray Server Software has completed. Please check the log file, /var/adm/log/utconfig.2012_08_21_13:41:11.log, for errors. === even though /opt/SUNWuttsc/lib/uttscadm seemed to exist. When I try to run utadm, that needs me to edit the /etc/inet/hosts file to have machine name on its own name with it primary IP address and not on the localhost line... So, it seems that the main instructions in the admin guide are not sufficient and I am going to need some hybrid of the old opensolaris/solaris express type bodges mixed in with the new admin instructions... To remind folks, I am doing a SunRay install on a T5140 with a fresh Solaris 11 installation and wanting primary IP address on net0, Sunray private interconnect on net1. [We also normally configure net2 and net3 as we normally run our main hosts multihomed with live IP interfaces on several different class-C IP networks.] Has anyone got any definitive notes of a complete install? I'll post more later after I do some more experiments. I am trying again with SunRay firmware installed as well today. Thanks folks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Daer Bob, Thanks for email. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: The basic model for Solaris installation is that LiveCD is intended for laptops or workstations But I can't use that anyway as I have SPARC (T5140). bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: and Text installation or AI is intended for servers. They install different sets of packages which target the intended model. multi-user-desktop is an optional package (group) intended for desktop servers (i.e. Sun Ray). I used the text installer (from DVD and controlling it via the service processor), but it did not seem to offer me any options of what package set to install. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: May I suggest that instead of using LiveCD for Sun Ray, you use the Text installer and then install group/feature/multi-user-desktop. This will do several useful things for you: 1. It will install a more minimal package subset for desktops. I did not see it offer me that choice. From what I saw, and from what I read in the Note on page 16 of the March 2012 ediiton of Installing Oracle Solaris 11 System, it only installs the solaris-large-server package when using the text installer directly. Thus, after that I then installed the slim_install package (as as recommended then removed that group container leaving the packages it has sucked in intact) and then I also installed pkg install SUNWdhcsb SUNWdhcs SUNWdhcm pkg install /x11/library/libxevie pkg install SUNWmfrun SUNWtltk SUNWdtbas bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: 1. It will install a more minimal package subset for desktops. Our machines do sometimes run the odd cpu-resource-limited zone too so I really need more than just desktop. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: 2. It will configure networking appropriately for a server instead of a laptop (e.g. no NWAM, static address) yes, I gave it fixed addresses and the SMF services that are live show that is the case. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: 3. I will install the core dependent packages required by SRS (DHCP, CDE/Motif) I hope the packages I mentioned I had installed a few lines ago meet those requirements too. bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: 4. It will provide an SMF 'multi-user-desktop' service I don't seem to have that running. root@wiked:~# svcs -a | grep -i multi disabled 17:50:20 svc:/network/dns/multicast:default online 17:51:08 svc:/milestone/multi-user:default online 17:51:11 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default root@wiked:~# from what you say, should I see a service called multi-user-desktop too? bob.doolit...@oracle.com said: which you can enable to provide some useful optimizations for Sun Ray deployments (mostly restricted choices for desktop users to mitigate desktop features that don't scale well in shared environments). We'd be interested in feedback regarding experiences with that service. There's a document that describes how to configure it, should you care to: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/E26032/index.html I will have a look at that document before I go further. I have been tied up in a variety of meetings this morning so not gone any further today. I am presuming also that I will need to update the IP config (at least editing /etc/hosts) using the commands that Toomas suggested earlier anyway. As I noted in other emails, one of the commands (utadm -a net1) fails unless I manually change /etc/hosts anyway... I downloaded the new SRS etc fine. My problems are that if I try to run utsetup that bombs out and when I try to start again (on a new BE) and instead try to manually go through utinstall, utconfig, ... instead various of those are bombing out too. Anyway, thanks for advice, I will read that document and then try more things. I am keeping notes so perhaps I will have a full comprehensive set that may have value to others once I get this going (optimist here :-)) Thanks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Jeremy, sunad...@gmail.com said: http://alanhargreaves.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/sun-ray-on-solaris-11-sp arc/ Have you read this article? yes, along with many others :-( If you just start from that specific article though, lots goes wrong. Fopr instance, the utsetup installs things, but then blows up when it gets to the patches and never asks you the questions you need to answer to be able to set things up... In his case, he was effectively upgrading from a previous install (some of which he talks about in previous web pages) and I think he has inherited various bits of config from those earlier installs. I am working on a virgin install of Solaris 11 and so hitting lots of silly things it seems Anyway, thanks for comments, keep them rolling in... Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:47:25PM +0100, Dave Price wrote: pkg install SUNWdhcsb SUNWdhcs SUNWdhcm pkg install /x11/library/libxevie pkg install SUNWmfrun SUNWtltk SUNWdtbas After the Solaris 11 install on my T4-1 I do basically only this: pkg install network/dhcp/dhcpmgr service/network/dhcp/datastore/binfiles pkg install cde/cde-runtime pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop svcadm enable gdm reboot Then I install SRSS 4.4. And it works. -- +---+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | |homepage: http://telka.sk/ | |jabber: mar...@jabber.sk | +---+ ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Toomas and all, Some of the setting are already o.k. I believe. 1/. root@wiked:~# netadm list netadm: DefaultFixed NCP is enabled; automatic network management is not available. 'netadm list' is only supported when automatic network management is active. root@wiked:~# so that's already o.k. 2/. root@wiked:~# ipadm show-if IFNAME CLASSSTATEACTIVE OVER lo0loopback ok yes-- net0 ip ok yes-- root@wiked:~# so that is o.k. to start with I think. I want SunRay to pick up net1 as the private interconnect, so assuming things are like in the old days, it is probably correct that it does not show yet. ipadm show-addr display the fixed addresses I have allocated to net0 so that's o.k. too I think. root@wiked:~# svccfg -s svc:/system/identity:node listprop config/nodename config/nodename astring wiked root@wiked:~# so I don't need to set that. 3/. Toomas said... tso...@mac.com said: set up your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf with proper content and import the config: # nscfg import -f svc:/system/name-service/switch:default # nscfg import -f svc:/network/dns/client:default I have checked and both files are already o.k. and it sayd they have been generated from SMF data so I don't think I need to change things there either. 4/. tso...@mac.com said: also fix your hosts file So, here the default /etc/hosts has the computer's name (wiked) on the 127.0.0.1/localhost line. So, I will edit that as I did yesterday to have the machine's name on a new line against it's IP address from net0. However, I think that then just takes me to exactly the state I was at yesterday and then after that, if I use utsetup I expect it to fail again as I will have changed nothing beyond what I had yesterday. Well, except I now have some SunRay firmware in place and I was trying without that yesterday. I will read what the others said before I try anything. Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Marcel, 1/. mar...@telka.sk said: pkg install network/dhcp/dhcpmgr service/network/dhcp/datastore/ binfiles On my machine... oot@wiked:~# pkg list '*dhcp*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSIONIFO network/dhcp/dhcpmgr 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/datastore/binfiles 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/isc-dhcp 4.1-0.175.0.0.0.2.537 i-- root@wiked:~# so I already have those. 2/. mar...@telka.sk said: pkg install cde/cde-runtime and on my machine root@wiked:~# pkg list '*cde*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSIONIFO cde/cde-runtime 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.0 i-- consolidation/cde/cde-incorporation 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.0 i-- root@wiked:~# so I have that already too. 3/. mar...@telka.sk said: pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop on my machine root@wiked:~# pkg list '*multi-user-desktop*' pkg list: no packages matching '*multi-user-desktop*' installed root@wiked:~# so I don't have that at present. 4/. mar...@telka.sk said: svcadm enable gdm on my machine root@wiked:~# svcs | grep gdm online 17:51:16 svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default root@wiked:~# so I already have that too. 5/. mar...@telka.sk said: Then I install SRSS 4.4. So what instructions did you use for that and which download did you use?I am trying to install using either utsetup or utinstall etc from srs_5.3.1.0-SunOS.sparc and both fall over in various ways. utsetup bombs out reporting = Installation of Sun Ray Server Software has completed. ./utinstall[466]: main[409]: handle_component[293]: installed_rev[168]: showrev: not found [No such file or directory] Updating software, please wait. Stopping Sun Ray services, please wait ... ./utinstall[466]: main[409]: handle_component[298]: do_patchadd[224]: patchadd: not found [No such file or directory] There was an error in Patch installation. Please check the above output for details. Please check for errors/warnings in /var/adm/log/utinstall.2012_08_21_12:27:13.log +++ Done. root@wiked:~/sunray/srs_5.3.1.0-SunOS.sparc# = and so it never asks me any setup questions etc. So, what did you run to install and configure SRSS 4.4 ?? I will try adding the pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop and see what happens on next try. I suspect I may be better running utinstall and all the other tools manually one after the other though. Dave Price Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Hi Marcel, Just FYI, if you are interested in saving steps... Your first two pkg install commands are redundant, given your third choice. Multi-user-desktop *includes* cde-runtime and dhcpmgr. -CB On 8/22/12 7:24 AM, Marcel Telka wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:47:25PM +0100, Dave Price wrote: pkg install SUNWdhcsb SUNWdhcs SUNWdhcm pkg install /x11/library/libxevie pkg install SUNWmfrun SUNWtltk SUNWdtbas After the Solaris 11 install on my T4-1 I do basically only this: pkg install network/dhcp/dhcpmgr service/network/dhcp/datastore/binfiles pkg install cde/cde-runtime pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop svcadm enable gdm reboot Then I install SRSS 4.4. And it works. ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Hi Dave, Three things. 1) You need to install group/feature/multi-user-desktop *after* Solaris installation completes. Until this is done, the SMF multi-user service will not be available 2) utsetup will fail because utsetup tries to install patches via a mechanism that is incompatible with S11 *BUT THAT'S OK* :) The product will be installed. Minus patches at this point. Now you would reboot at this point. Then run your utconfig by hand (something else that utsetup does now that used to be separate) 3) Private interconnects (e.g. utadm -a) are one of the thing that won't work with the current release of SRS and S11. This won't stop you from being able to run Sun Rays on an isolated network, but all the networking configuration won't be done automatically. Enable LAN based interconnects and provide DHCP, and some sort of way from the Sun Rays to find the server on that segment, and you should be fine. On 8/22/12 8:25 AM, Dave Price wrote: Dear Marcel, 1/. mar...@telka.sk said: pkg install network/dhcp/dhcpmgr service/network/dhcp/datastore/ binfiles On my machine... oot@wiked:~# pkg list '*dhcp*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSIONIFO network/dhcp/dhcpmgr 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/datastore/binfiles 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.2.1 i-- service/network/dhcp/isc-dhcp 4.1-0.175.0.0.0.2.537 i-- root@wiked:~# so I already have those. 2/. mar...@telka.sk said: pkg install cde/cde-runtime and on my machine root@wiked:~# pkg list '*cde*' NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSIONIFO cde/cde-runtime 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.0 i-- consolidation/cde/cde-incorporation 0.5.11-0.175.0.0.0.0.0 i-- root@wiked:~# so I have that already too. 3/. mar...@telka.sk said: pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop on my machine root@wiked:~# pkg list '*multi-user-desktop*' pkg list: no packages matching '*multi-user-desktop*' installed root@wiked:~# so I don't have that at present. 4/. mar...@telka.sk said: svcadm enable gdm on my machine root@wiked:~# svcs | grep gdm online 17:51:16 svc:/application/graphical-login/gdm:default root@wiked:~# so I already have that too. 5/. mar...@telka.sk said: Then I install SRSS 4.4. So what instructions did you use for that and which download did you use?I am trying to install using either utsetup or utinstall etc from srs_5.3.1.0-SunOS.sparc and both fall over in various ways. utsetup bombs out reporting = Installation of Sun Ray Server Software has completed. ./utinstall[466]: main[409]: handle_component[293]: installed_rev[168]: showrev: not found [No such file or directory] Updating software, please wait. Stopping Sun Ray services, please wait ... ./utinstall[466]: main[409]: handle_component[298]: do_patchadd[224]: patchadd: not found [No such file or directory] There was an error in Patch installation. Please check the above output for details. Please check for errors/warnings in /var/adm/log/utinstall.2012_08_21_12:27:13.log +++ Done. root@wiked:~/sunray/srs_5.3.1.0-SunOS.sparc# = and so it never asks me any setup questions etc. So, what did you run to install and configure SRSS 4.4 ?? I will try adding the pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop and see what happens on next try. I suspect I may be better running utinstall and all the other tools manually one after the other though. Dave Price Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:25:14PM +0100, Dave Price wrote: = Installation of Sun Ray Server Software has completed. ./utinstall[466]: main[409]: handle_component[293]: installed_rev[168]: showrev: not found [No such file or directory] Updating software, please wait. Stopping Sun Ray services, please wait ... ./utinstall[466]: main[409]: handle_component[298]: do_patchadd[224]: patchadd: not found [No such file or directory] There was an error in Patch installation. Please check the above output for details. Please check for errors/warnings in /var/adm/log/utinstall.2012_08_21_12:27:13.log +++ Done. root@wiked:~/sunray/srs_5.3.1.0-SunOS.sparc# = and so it never asks me any setup questions etc. So, what did you run to install and configure SRSS 4.4 ?? I will try adding the pkg install group/feature/multi-user-desktop and see what happens on next try. I suspect I may be better running utinstall and all the other tools manually one after the other though. I use these steps to install SRSS 4.4 build 49 (which should be the officially released build of 4.4; and yes, I use Oracle internal source for the SRSS software, so I am not sure where it is available for download externally): export VER=4.4 export BUILD=49 export SRS_VER=5.3.0.0 export FW_VER=11.0.0.0 mkdir -p /var/tmp/srss cd /var/tmp/srss scp -p x...@.us.oracle.com:/PATH/sros_$FW_VER.tar.Z . scp -p x...@.us.oracle.com:/PATH/srs_$SRS_VER.tar.Z . gtar -xf sros_$FW_VER.tar.Z gtar -xf srs_$SRS_VER.tar.Z mv sros_$FW_VER sros_$VER-$BUILD mv srs_$SRS_VER srss_$VER-$BUILD rm sros_$FW_VER.tar.Z rm srs_$SRS_VER.tar.Z sros_$VER-$BUILD/utfwinstall srss_$VER-$BUILD/utinstall /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utconfig /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utpolicy -a -m -g -z both -u both -M /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utcrypto -a enc_up_type=ARCFOUR enc_down_type=ARCFOUR auth_down_type=simple auth_up_type=none mode=hard /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utadm -L on /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utstart -c /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f /opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/SUNWut/sbin:/opt/SUNWut/bin:/opt/SUNWkio/bin' ~root/.profile reboot -- +---+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: mar...@telka.sk | |homepage: http://telka.sk/ | |jabber: mar...@jabber.sk | +---+ ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Craig, craig.ben...@oracle.com said: 1) You need to install group/feature/multi-user-desktop *after* Solaris installation completes. Until this is done, the SMF multi-user service will not be available I have done that. As it seemed a good/safe thing, I have now created a new BE and activated/booted that so I can start again from here if going forward fails yet again... craig.ben...@oracle.com said: 2) utsetup will fail because utsetup tries to install patches via a mechanism that is incompatible with S11 *BUT THAT'S OK* :) The product will be installed. Minus patches at this point. Now you would reboot at this point. o.k. But if I am doing that, why don't I just run utinstall rather than utsetup? Surely at the point utsetup bombs out it has only done the utinstall part anyway... craig.ben...@oracle.com said: Then run your utconfig by hand (something else that utsetup does now that used to be separate) o.k. craig.ben...@oracle.com said: 3) Private interconnects (e.g. utadm -a) are one of the thing that won't work with the current release of SRS and S11. Ah - you are the first person to say that and I have not spotted in in any web pages/forums/wikis etc... craig.ben...@oracle.com said: This won't stop you from being able to run Sun Rays on an isolated network, but all the networking configuration won't be done automatically. Enable LAN based interconnects and provide DHCP, and some sort of way from the Sun Rays to find the server on that segment, and you should be fine. o.k., I need to think about this I can clearly bring up my net1 interface and manually give it an IP address etc using ipadm [My machine in question normally gets given 192.168.199.7 for its sunray interconnect IP address.] Can I then use utadm -A 192.168.199.0 or does -A not work either? Would I need to also issue utadm -L on I don't want SunRay service running on the net0 interface though. So if I do have to issue utadm -L on would I then need to issue utadm -D x.y.z.0 (where x.y.z.0 is the range I have on net0). If I can use -A, then it think that will start a DHCP service - yes? or does that not work either on Solaris 11?? Thanks for the help. Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
Dear Marcel, Thanks for your detailed list of commands. There are a few parameter choices I think I will pick differently. I don't think I want to enable NSCM in my scenario for instance. I see also that you use -A and -L on to utadm and I wanted a private interconnect (-a) which Craig Bender says does not work on Solaris 11. I think I will have to hand craft things a bit ... I think I may choose to not use utseup at all, but do things the old way as you have done. Thanks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
Re: [SunRay-Users] more help needed - Advice: Sunray on Solaris 11/SPARC with private interconnect
If you really want to hack it, a private interconnect possible. But you'll have to do so by hand. Note that you'll have to create files that don't exist on S11, and you'll have to manually setup DHCP. Basically follow the utadm script, follow the -a case. Where it does file checks, create those files if they don't exist. Populate those files as the script would do. Manually configure DHCP, as the script would do. Just curious as to what benefit you'd get over just LAN based and a manual DHCP config when the network wire itself is private? I feel that anything but LAN on always results in more work down the road. In this case, where they don't work on S11, results in more upfront work and more work anytime you want to make a change to something like firmware versions, barrier levels, etc. Remember that the DHCP vendor class tags used in private interconnects will override other configuration methods, so I'd at least give a bit of thought to whether you really want to do this considering the struggles you've faced thus far. This will eventually all work, but only when we officially support S11. On 8/22/12 9:38 AM, Dave Price wrote: Dear Marcel, Thanks for your detailed list of commands. There are a few parameter choices I think I will pick differently. I don't think I want to enable NSCM in my scenario for instance. I see also that you use -A and -L on to utadm and I wanted a private interconnect (-a) which Craig Bender says does not work on Solaris 11. I think I will have to hand craft things a bit ... I think I may choose to not use utseup at all, but do things the old way as you have done. Thanks, Dave Price ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users ___ SunRay-Users mailing list SunRay-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
