Modify the Hostid in a Solaris 11 Global Zone running on VMWare


 
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# 1  
Old 08-26-2014
@gull04..........

Once again, thank you for this. Knowing that this technique works on Solaris 11 is new knowledge. I must say for clarity of future reading that this code only applies to Solaris x86. Where did you put this script to execute automatically at boot time?

(If you are in a position to develop and test a Solaris SPARC version then I'll post that code too.)

Last edited by hicksd8; 11-08-2014 at 12:22 PM.. Reason: correct typo
# 2  
Old 08-27-2014
Hi Hicksd8,

The script is located in /usr/local/bin which is where I tend to put anything that I write to complete an admin function.

At the moment it is a manual job to run the script, however I will probably implement it as a service at some point and I'll put a copy in /etc/init.d just for completeness.

Would quite like to try this with a sparc based M/C and can't actually see why it wouldn't work although it would probably require the adb as against the mdb But right now I have only got access to 2 * Ultra 10's one running 2.6 amd one running 2.7 so not much chance of a proof of concept there.

Obviously it will be the same situation on a sparc and the hostid won't persist across a reboot.

Regards

Dave

Last edited by rbatte1; 08-27-2014 at 12:30 PM.. Reason: Changed CODE tags to ICODE tags
# 3  
Old 08-28-2014
Hi gull04,

You're not wrong. On SPARC I use adb to modify the hostid. On both x86 and SPARC I insert lines at the end of /etc/rc2.d/S20sysetup so that they execute every time the machine boots.

Following below is a copy of the S20sysetup file from my SPARC system.

Again, I've not tested this code on Solaris 11 but it works great on Solaris 10.

All this stuff makes a good knowledge base for future readers and also means that you can help out on any hostid and lmgrd questions too. There doesn't seem to be too much knowledge about on this.

Best
hicksd8

---------- Post updated at 07:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:54 PM ----------

Here's my S20sysetup...........(for SPARC)


Code:
 
 #!/sbin/sh
#
# Copyright (c) 1984-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
#ident "@(#)sysetup 1.18 98/10/09 SMI"
 if [ -z "$_INIT_PREV_LEVEL" ]; then
 set -- `/usr/bin/who -r`
 _INIT_PREV_LEVEL="$9"
fi
 [ $_INIT_PREV_LEVEL != S -a $_INIT_PREV_LEVEL != 1 ] && exit 0
 # Uncomment this line to print the complete system configuration on startup
#[ -x /usr/sbin/prtconf ] && /usr/sbin/prtconf
 # If there are trademark files, print them.
 [ -d /etc/tm ] && /usr/bin/cat /etc/tm/* 2>/dev/null
 #
# Savecore is enabled by default.
# See dumpadm(1M) on how to customize
# system dump configuration.
#
# **** Additional lines added to this file to set hostid ****
#
# Change Host ID to Hex 807a6e94
# Convert to a decimal value = 2155507348
# Use HEXADECIMAL to BINARY conversion, HEX to Decimal converter, Hexdecimal convertor to do this
#
# Divide into 3 parts: 2155 5073 48
# Hex value of the above ASCII chars
# Use above web site for this too
# 32 31 35 35
# 35 30 37 33
# 34 38
#
# After padding out
# 32313535
# 35303733
# 34380000
#
# o let's set the new hostid
# Comment out the following lines in a virtualised environment
# Container will set the hostid
# hicksd8 14 July 2011
adb -w -k /dev/ksyms /dev/mem /dev/null<<END
hw_serial/W 0x32313535
hw_serial+4/W 0x35303733
hw_serial+8/W 0x34380000
END
# That's it!

# 4  
Old 09-08-2014
Further comment on hostid and lmgrd issues

No wonder license server support people are still asking these types of questions!!! I just dealt with another one (locally).

It seems that people bought extremely expensive perpetual software licenses years ago which are protected by license servers like lmgrd (FlexLM). The hardware it is running on (eg, Sun Ultra1's) are now completely knackered and end-of-life but the original software company has gone bust, been taken over (several times), or the company is trying to sell their new software, and so to get the license file regenerated for a new host is impossible. However, the end user has a legal right to run the software and simply wants to move servers.

The software company simply doesn't understand, or deliberately won't understand the problem.

I hope this thread becomes the definitive place to look for help on this.

Last edited by hicksd8; 09-08-2014 at 08:09 AM..
# 5  
Old 09-08-2014
Hi,

You and me both, just for completeness - here are the guts of the logger.sh script that all my scripts call to log to a single journal/log file for the day.

Code:
# Description.
#
# Callable logging utility allowing all working shell scripts and utilities to
# log to a single log file or journal.
#
# The utility should be called from within the shell scripts that require the
# log function.
#
###############################################################################
#
# History.
#
# Initial Version - 2013/10/03
#
##############################################################################
#
# Check if the calling shell knows about a logfile, if it doesn't create one.
#
##############################################################################
if [ ${LOG} ]
        then
        :
        else
        LOG="/var/log/day_log_`date +%Y``date +%m%d`"
fi
###############################################################################
#
# Set the MSG variable, to log with the calling shell.
#
###############################################################################
MSG="`date '+%d %b %T'`  $*"

###############################################################################
#
# Test if the log is writeable, if not correct it.
#
###############################################################################

if [ -f ${LOG} ]
        then
        :
        else
        touch ${LOG}
        chmod 666 ${LOG}
fi

if echo "`date '+%d %b %T'`  $*"  >> ${LOG}
        then
        :
        else
        ERROR=$?
        echo "LOGGER FAILED TO WRITE TO LOG FILE, error=${ERROR}"
        exit ${ERROR}
fi

This just allows multiple scripts to log as required - all to the same output file - handy for error checking etc.

Regards

Dave
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