I'll chip in my 2 cents for what it's worth, I don't see the firmware
patch readme suggesting it will address any of your clients issues.

AFAIK the usb disk though to windows desktop session is only sorted
with SRS 5 and that only runs on Solaris 10.

In addition to the caution's those before me have mentioned. I would
add be aware of any bugs/issues you introduce as well as those you to
trying to fix.

cheers

alan

2009/11/5 Zia-ul-Hassan Zia <zhasaan at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>>
>> --
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