03-25-2010
What's the output of uname -a?
You could contact your software company and have them update the license with the new hostid or if you have backups of the old server, this may work:
for X86 solaris - Description:
If an installation fails or is aborted, subsequent installations are
likely to get a hardware serial number (hostid) of zero. This makes
the machine unable to use many software licensing methods.
Work Around:
Workaround: Delete the contents of /kernel/misc before re-installing
(so your workaround may be to find the old /kernel/misc info and restore it...or just parts of it)
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hostid(1) General Commands Manual hostid(1)
NAME
hostid - Sets or displays the identifier of the local host
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/hostid [hostname | hexadecimal_number | internet_address]
DESCRIPTION
The hostid command displays the 32-bit identifier of the host as a hexadecimal number in host standard byte order. The identifier must be
unique across all hosts and is commonly set to the Internet address of the specified host. The superuser can set the host ID by specifying
a hostname, internet_address, or hexadecimal_number argument. The identifier is stored in network standard byte order.
EXAMPLES
To display the identifier of the local host, enter: $ hostid
0xc009c803
The hostid command displays the identifier of the host as a hexadecimal number in host standard byte order. To set the identifier
of the local host to the local Internet address, enter: $ hostid 555.5.55.555
The hostid command converts the Internet address to its hexadecimal equivalent, and then sets the local host to this address.
Note that the sample Internet address in this example, 555.5.55.555, is not a valid Internet address and would cause hostid to
return an error.
SEE ALSO
Commands: hostname(1)
Functions: gethostid(2), sethostid(2)
hostid(1)