Solaris

Hi guys

I have a little problem. I need to identify the server type from some ufsdumps.
How can i do that?
I grepped with:

Code:

grep Sun messages*

but with this command, if there server was never rebooted, i cannot recognize the server type.

any other idea?

thx in advance
Ivan

Hi Ivan,

Not so easy to do this on Solaris, probably best to pull back /etc/hosts and try and identify the system from there if it can be tied to a host name.

Or if it's one of the later M ot T series systems running a reasonably new version of solaris you could look in /var/adm/pool/history using strings and you should be able to identify the host name.

Failing that you're looking at pulling back the kernel and having a look at the load modules - but that won't give you a host only a processor type.

Regards

Dave

Hi Dave

the only thing i know it's that some ufsdumps are from a v120 and others from a v440!
because the v120 was replaced/upgraded by the v440 the hosts file are the same! :-)
i've also checked if the SUNWsneep package was installed to read out the hostid but noooo way... :-(

Hi Ivan,

You could "grep net /etc/path_to_inst" file, it may be that the device definitions in that file will give you a clue, but you'd have to be familiar with the servers.

From memory I think the interface names were different, something like net0 and net1 on one model and eri0 and eri1 on the other - but it's been a while since I did anything with Vseries except scrap them.

Regards

Dave

---------- Post updated at 02:30 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:22 PM ----------

Hi Ivan,

Quick update here I found a still running v440 (the last one) and got the following if it helps!

Code:

Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
(ss063a SunOS 5.10) munrd03 /export/home/support
$ grep net /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci@1c,600000/network@2" 0 "ce"
"/pci@1f,700000/network@1" 1 "ce"
(ss063a SunOS 5.10) munrd03 /export/home/support
$ uname -a
SunOS ss063a 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
(ss063a SunOS 5.10) munrd03 /export/home/support
$ exit
Connection closed by foreign host.

Regards

Dave

I assume you are talking Solaris o/s on a SPARC here?

If so and I have a ufsdump file OF A NORMAL O/S INSTALL and I need to identify the hardware platform then I extract the file /etc/snmp/conf/snmpd.conf and then look at the "sysdescr" line. That tells you the SPARC platform info.

Any good?

thanks guys, will check it now and give a feedback....

---------- Post updated at 10:59 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:10 AM ----------

Thank you again guys, you helped me alot!!!
solved my little problem :-D