Solaris

Hi All,

I am new joinee to this forum and recently promoted as sun administrator from dba. I still dont know whether i can handle it fully . My first task is to audit set of sun servers and findout what it is doing and whether it can be upgraded or decommissioned and if upgraded whether it can be brought into virtulisation farm. From my limited experience, I jotted down the below things which needs to be done. Just wanted experts thoughts on it.

1) serial number,model, patches,memory size,os version, application running,ports listening, any san connected.

is those list all or is there anything apart from that needs to be audited ?

Thanks for your time. Much appreciated.

Regards,
SD

There will be as many way to do this as there are people willing to post anything here. If you have access to Oracle/Sun Explorer data collection, I would download that bundle and test it on server of your choice.
This explorer, tool, is designed to collect a lot of statistics/inventory when it is run on Solaris OS, version is not important. It will collect all you have listed above, but you will be required to pull specific data out of collections. Data is presented to you in a plain txt, so it is easy to read.
Also, EXP data is good to keep for future reference, comparing before and after patching if needed.

Oracle Services Tools Bundle (STB) - RDA/Explorer, SNEEP, ACT (Doc ID 1153444.1)

Hope it helps.

Thanks Vmcore for pointing out that utility. You have mentioned "EXP data" in your last line, is it some kind of tool or you are mentioning to export the data for reference ?

Thanks

Hi sundba,

There is also a very good freeware tool available called "cfg2html", this gives you a very nice formatted output that works really well in most browsers.

You can get the latest copy here.

Regards

Dave

Hello, EXP = explorer, used short version of it.

All, Thanks for your time,much appreciated.