Solaris

yes it is

Why not you upgrade the firmware to the latest level?

i wouldn't do that on a "hangin" sp... after the sp is up again i also would consider an upgrade to the latest fw level. but you have to schedule a downtime for a reboot to "activate" the new obp!

Hello guys,

I had a scheduled downtime yesterdy night, when I also took out the power cables out and powered on chassis again, then ALOM/ILOM is giving me proper results on this system..i.e. console -f gives me the OS console now.

Btw, I am a little confused on the procedures followed for updating this firmware..looks like there are 2-3 different procedures one can follow, I wonder which one is easier ..also on the sunsolve.sun site I see 3 patches for t5120
127580 - 7.0.x System Firmware
136932 - 7.1.x System Firmware
139439 - 7.2.x System Firmware

I wonder if installing correct patch will give me latest firmware...

as far a dates for these patches, they too are confusing 7.2 came out in Dec,08 and 7.1.x came out in feb 2009

Will you guys be able to tell me exact upgrade procedure and exact place to download the software..

Thanks again and good day.

if you don't need latest ldom functionality you can stay with 7.1.x otherwise you should give 7.2 a try. fw upgrade is realy easy. use the web gui...

set up the netmgmt ip from the SP and then use the browser to go to the url. Update your firmware 7.2 from there first

Thank you Incredible and Dukenuke2 for your valuable input. I very much want to upgrade to latest firmware or 7.2 atleast on test machine first.

I am already using network management port to access alom.

I use RSA token to connect to a host and from that host I ssh admin@<IP of net mgmt port> ..Is this the IP I will have to use in browser ? if Yes, then I think my chances of accessing this IP from personal machine are very very low and I wonder if RSA authentication host has a browser...

but I can open up the browser on the solaris host itself and just wondering if there is a special port I can use to access the alom web interface... but again IP of solaris and IP of net mgmt port are in different subnets..

looks like web method will not work for me..

I will look up in the documentation and see what other better methods I can use..

I will appreciate any inputs from you.

Thanks