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Host ID of v880

Hello All,

I am not a sun expert, but in my network administration job I had to deal with SUN servers. We've to replace a faulty motherboard of SF V880. As per my understanding, host id of machines is programmed in PROM. So will host ID be changed with the replacement of V880 motherboard? Because in this case we'll have to get new licenses.

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Also it'd be great if someone explains the location of host IDs of V880, V490..

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Hostid is stored in the IDprom of each of those server types. You have two options:
1. Get new licenses
2. Pull the IDprom from the old server and replace the one in the new server with it.
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there used to be a tool called hid2 basically the usage is

hid2 <hostid>

it runs once from rc2.d in a script during system boot-up it will change your system hostid to something else that you want. And once it's changed you can use whatever license, volume manager, vxfs, works like a charm.

tho not sure where to find it these days maybe search goggle or something.

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I think the mods should consider having a file repository at unix.com for people to upload useful stuff
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That is not something that we could do, for a number of reasons, not least of which would be the issue of legal liabilty in the case of abuse.
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IDProm of V880

Hello sparcguy & reborg,
Thanks for ur valuable comments,
while searching on net I found that this IDProm is located on IO board of v880. So now my question is
If host ID is programmed in IDProm and this IDProm is located on I/O Board, then should host ID change with change of Motherboard (P/N 501-4300)??
What you experts say on this point?

I found the above info on following sun page
Sun Fire V880 - Full Components List

Thanks in advance...
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