I've installed Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 on a Sun Fire V490 Server via its external Serial Port using a Cisco Console Cable connected to my Laptop PC running SecureCRT terminal emulation software emulating VT100 Terminal.
The Sun Fire V490 server has two on-board Ethernet interfaces, which reside on the system centerplane and conform to the IEEE 802.3z Ethernet standard.
Q1. During the installation of the Solaris 10 1/13 OS, I configured the primary on-board Ethernet interface with an IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway and DNS Server IP Addresses, and it seems it was configured successfully but I can't ping this primary interface, ce0, from other nodes on the network. When I ping it from the Sun Fire V490, I get " Port is Active." Also, see the CLI outputs below. Do I need to configure anything else on the server in order to be able to ping it?
Q2. I need to transfer some .tar and .tar.gz scripts from my Laptop PC to the Sun Fire V490 Server and place them in a temporary directory and then un-tar /unzip and execute them to load some applications on the Server. The Sun Fire V490 has a built in CD ROM [ DVD Drive ] and I burned my scripts on a blank DVD-R disk and placed it in the CD ROM and tried to transfer them over to the Server without much success. Can someone show me the CLI commands in Solaris 10 1/13 to accomplish this task?
Q3. In order to bring up the GUI on Solaris 10, I connected a generic monitor, keyboard and mouse to the SUN Fire V490, but the monitor displays "no DVI" / "no VGA" signal from the Server and hence nothing is displayed on the monitor. Do I need to connect a SUN-compatible Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse to the Server in order to see any output on the monitor? Do I need to configure Solaris 10 from the CLI prompt # for the ROOT to enable the monitor, keyboard and mouse?
Please note that I connect to this Server via its external serial port as mentioned above at the present time and login to it as ROOT.
Thank you for your help.
Code:
# cat /etc/release
Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 s10s_u11wos_24a SPARC
Copyright (c) 1983, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Assembled 17 January 2013
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# uname -a
SunOS NavisCore001 5.10 Generic_147147-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490
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# cat /etc/hosts
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# Internet host table
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::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
172.16.20.10 NavisCore001 loghost
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# ifconfig -aZ
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ce0: flags=1000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 172.16.20.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.16.20.255
ether 0:14:4f:1e:62:43
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# ifconfig ce0
ce0: flags=1000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 172.16.20.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.16.20.255
ether 0:14:4f:1e:62:43
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# dladm show-dev
ce0 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
ce1 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
ce2 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
ce3 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
ce4 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
ce5 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
ce6 link: down speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
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# nestat -i
nestat: not found
# netstat -i
Name Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Queue
lo0 8232 loopback localhost 165 0 165 0 0 0
ce0 1500 NavisCore001 NavisCore001 0 0 0 0 0 0
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# netstat -n
Active UNIX domain sockets
Address Type Vnode Conn Local Addr Remote Addr
6003e9b5d08 stream-ord 6003de77000 00000000 /var/run/.inetd.uds
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# netstat -I ce0
Name Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Queue
ce0 1500 NavisCore001 NavisCore001 0 0 0 0 0 0
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# cfgadm -val
Ap_Id Receptacle Occupant Condition Information
When Type Busy Phys_Id
c0 connected configured unknown
unavailable scsi-bus n /devices/pci@8,700000/ide@6:scsi
c0::dsk/c0t0d0 connected configured unknown TOSHIBA ODD-DVD SD-C2732
unavailable CD-ROM n /devices/pci@8,700000/ide@6:scsi::dsk/c0t0d0
c1 connected configured unknown
unavailable fc-private n /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc
c1::2100001862c4df7e connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST314655FSUN146G
unavailable disk y /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc::2100001862c4df7e
c1::2100001862c4f0b4 connected configured unknown SEAGATE ST314655FSUN146G
unavailable disk n /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc::2100001862c4f0b4
c2 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable fc n /devices/pci@8,700000/SUNW,qlc@4/fp@0,0:fc
c3 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable fc n /devices/pci@8,700000/SUNW,qlc@4,1/fp@0,0:fc
c4 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable fc n /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0:fc
c5 connected unconfigured unknown
unavailable fc n /devices/pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2,1/fp@0,0:fc
usb0/1 connected configured ok Mfg: Logitech Product: USB Keyboard NConfigs: 1 Config: 0 : U64.00_B0001
unavailable usb-device n /devices/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3:1
usb0/2 connected configured ok Mfg: MOON Product: AND NConfigs: 1 Config: 0 <no cfg str descr>
unavailable usb-mouse n /devices/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3:2
usb0/3 empty unconfigured ok
unavailable unknown n /devices/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3:3
usb0/4 empty unconfigured ok
unavailable unknown n /devices/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3:4
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# cat /etc/hostname.ce0
NavisCore001
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# cat /etc/inet/ipnodes
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# Internet host table
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::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
172.16.20.10 NavisCore001 loghost
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# cat /etc/hostname.ce1
cat: cannot open /etc/hostname.ce1
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# ls -l
total 1051
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 1 17:05 bin -> ./usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 3 Jul 1 17:05 boot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root nobody 4 Jul 1 17:57 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 20 root sys 231 Jul 5 14:21 dev
drwxr-xr-x 7 root sys 14 Jul 5 14:20 devices
drwxr-xr-x 87 root sys 235 Jul 5 14:21 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 3 Jul 1 17:05 export
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jul 5 14:21 home
drwxr-xr-x 17 root sys 17 Jul 1 17:39 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 8 root bin 247 Jul 1 17:39 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 2 Jul 1 17:05 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Jul 5 14:21 net
drwxr-xr-x 6 root sys 6 Jul 1 17:40 opt
drwxr-xr-x 54 root sys 65 Jul 1 17:40 platform
dr-xr-xr-x 47 root root 480032 Jul 5 15:56 proc
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Jul 1 17:44 rpool
drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 52 Jul 1 17:25 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4 Jul 1 17:05 system
drwxrwxrwt 6 root sys 462 Jul 5 15:42 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 41 root sys 55 Jul 1 17:43 usr
drwxr-xr-x 47 root sys 47 Jul 1 17:51 var
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 512 Jul 5 14:21 vol
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# iostat -En
c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 1 Transport Errors: 1
Vendor: TOSHIBA Product: ODD-DVD SD-C2732 Revision: 1055 Serial No:
Size: 7.50GB <7501774848 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 1 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 9 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c1t1d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST314655FSUN146G Revision: 3292 Serial No: 0724S19XA9
Size: 146.81GB <146810536448 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 2 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c1t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST314655FSUN146G Revision: 3292 Serial No: 0724S19XZ2
Size: 146.81GB <146810536448 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 3 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
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From the information that you have provided, the network cable seems to be connected into the wrong network interface - ce5 instead of ce0.
The correct port should be the lower of the two ports (ce0 and ce1), these are located on the rear panel step immediately above the serial management port.
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