Thanks Andre for your response. The good thing is all SUN RAY servers are running same OS (Solaris 9 , need to confirm the release thoug) and same version of SRS 3.0. If the OS disks are mirrored or not, I have now information at this point. However
Customer has got one SUN RAY Server spare with same config as in Production and I am planning to work on this before I touch to other systems in production. Now I have two options. Option 1): Upgrade the OS to Soalris10 (live or manual) after saving the SRS configuration and then upgrade SRS to the lateset version as per http://wikis.sun.com/display/SRS/Home#tab:What-s-New-for-SRS-5 and test the functionality after connecting a single client to this Server. Reality is client is not interested to upgrade the OS or SRS software, he just wants to address the issues mentioned in my original post. Option 2): a) Apply the latest SRS 3.0 firmware patch 118979-04 . And test the system functionality, as per patch README it addresses the following *Problem Description: * *6616994 LDAP password exposed during configuration using utconfig 6542450 Sun Ray DTU responds to ping even if IP address is incorrect 6587900 Oberthur (SIEBEL) cards not recognized by Sun Ray P8 units when smartcards are added to SRDS 6641754 Sun Ray 2/2FS/270 smart card readers sometimes drop bytes at bauds greater than 9600 6583348 Sun Ray: Apple Mighty Mouse vertical scroll not functioning properly 6636671 if Sun Ray terminal gets TFTPsrvN (option 66) it should try sunray-config-servers if this fails 6655178 Smartcard Philips SmartMX doesn't work anymore in SRSS4.0 6677259 Finnish ID card not recognized on Sun Ray 2 on SRSS 4.0 (but is on Sun Ray 270) 6667384 2FS doesn't receive second monitor utresadm override if DDC failed on second monitor 6694424 Unitech barcode reader fails to work with Sun Ray 6730748 Sun Ray DTU can't resolve hostnames* 6737449 SYN|ACK retry during TCP passive open is broken b) Then appy the DST patch 113225-17 and test sytem functionality with connection to client. What is the best advice folks? Kind Regards, Zia-ul-Hassan On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Andre van Eyssen <andre at purplecow.org>wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Zia-ul-Hassan Zia wrote: > > Before getting into the specifics, the usual points apply: > > Solaris 9 is getting old and you should look at upgrading rather than > complex patching. > > SRSS 3.0 is getting pretty old and you should probably look at a new > release of SRSS (it's faster! better! steakier!) > > If these boxes aren't well maintained, test all changes on a model. If they > are well maintained, test all changes on a model. Make sure you have a > backout strategy, even if it's just splitting the mirrors before getting to > work. > > Recruit some assistance if you need to. Even if it's just getting some > solid advice and a poke through the current situation. It's rumoured that a > bottle of whisky or a big steaky lunch will recruit a variety of seasoned > professionals for a quick consult. > > > 1: Are these issues related to old firmware on clients? If I upgrade >> firmware on server will it be automatically pushed to servers. I have no >> past experience managing SUN Ray controller or client so unsure about it? >> > > It should be pushed to the clients automatically, but you may need to use > ... > > > 2: How I can detect the current Firmware on server, I can see a few >> firmware >> related commands in manual (utfwadm,utfwload,utfwsync)? >> > > Yep. They all have man pages and are pretty simple. > > > >> 3:- Where from I can download the latest SUN Ray firmware for SRS 3.0? I >> try >> to find on SUN standard software site but couldn't get it. Or it's part of >> patch 114880-12? >> > > It's in the patches. You could also just fire up a new version of SRSS - it > might actually make life easier. Firmware is backwards compatible, too, so > if you fancy cheating you could slam all the DTUs with new, current firmware > and then plonk them back on your old SRSS instance. > > > 4: I presume the latest 9_Recommended patch bundle would address the DST >> issue or should I just apply the latest DST patch for Solaris 9 113225-17 >> (SPARC)?. >> > > I'd be pretty careful about deploying a 9_Rec on production servers - make > sure you test it on a model first, especially if they've been unmaintained > for a long time. > > -- > Andre van Eyssen. > mail: andre at purplecow.org jabber: andre at interact.purplecow.org > purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org > purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-msosug/attachments/20091105/0b5fde2a/attachment.html>
