From mnjwestover at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 00:15:38 2008
From: mnjwestover at gmail.com (Matthew Westover)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:15:38 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: Changing controller numbers in /dev manually
Message-ID: <3bb293dd0803022115p50ec644bw494567d3962e96f2@mail.gmail.com>

Many thanks to Stuart Saxon, Marion Dragomir, Darren Dunham and Matthew
Stier.

As this problem was a bit odd, it turned out to that there are very few
solutions. Ultimately, the device tree builds from /etc/path_to_inst when a
devfsadm is called, either manually or during a reconfig reboot. So, if the
device history isn't cleaned up before hand, getting two sites to look
exactly the same is difficult.

The only real option is to boot to CD or another device and rebuild the
device tree using the path_to_inst from the system you're attempting to
emulate. This may require some creative editing of /etc/path_to_inst to fit
your actual paths should they differ even slightly. Otherwise, you'll just
renumber the devices as they'll be seen as new from the OBP to path_to_inst
pass-off.

Also of note that I was only concerned with the disks and therefore only had
them reconfigured.

ok> boot cdrom -s

...

(path_to_inst.extract expected to be pulled from source system's
/etc/path_to_inst)

# mount /dev/dsk/cXtXd0s0 /a
# rm /dev/dsk/* /dev/rdsk/*
# devfsadm -c disk -p /a/etc/path_to_inst.extract -r /a

There are obviously more elegant ways to accomplish this, but seeing as I
only need to do this the once, I'm happy enough with this method.

Disclaimer: make sure you're comfortable with /etc/path_to_inst before
changing paths and devices in the file.

Thank you very much!!

Matthew Westover


On 6/18/07, Matthew Westover <mnjwestover at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Gurus!
>
> I've been looking for an answer to this, but I can't seem to phrase the
> question properly. I need to change a controller instance in the /dev device
> tree to another number manually:
>
> e.g. /dev/dsk/c2tXd0sX to /dev/dsk/c4tXd0sX
>
> I know about devfsadm -C to clean up entries, I can disconnect the arrays
> and start fresh, but I need an absolute assurance. Without doing it
> manually, I can't get that. I've tried looking around a bit in
> devlinks.tab and devices.tab, tried manually changing files and links in
> /dev to no avail.
>
> SunFire 280R, Solaris 8 02/04, with fully populated StorEdge D2.
>
> Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated and I'll post a
> summary after answered. Thanks!
>
> Matthew Westover
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From lrandy.webb at gmail.com  Tue Mar  4 18:08:11 2008
From: lrandy.webb at gmail.com (Randy Webb)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:08:11 -0600
Subject: Summary: Start Jumpstart Locked With Verbose Option
Message-ID: <e31f9ea50803041508x7b6ccb54n9f7c4e273a0215fe@mail.gmail.com>

The -v has to be BEFORE the -

Thanks to Darren Dunham for pointing this out.

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:08:08PM -0600, Randy Webb wrote:
> In order to start a jumpstart in a 100 Locked full network environment I
> have used
> boot net:speed=100,duplex=full - install

Right...

> In order to start a jumpstart with a verbose option I have used:
> boot net -v install

Does that get handed off properly?  I would have expected
* boot net -v - install to be necessary.
*
> Does anyone know how to combine these. I am troubleshooting a jumpstart
and
> need more output but a simple
> combination such as:
> boot net:speed=100,duplex=full -v install (* wrong)*
>
> does not seem to work.

Hm.  I would assume that would act identically to the previous one (with
the exception of setting the network parameters).

What way does "not seem to work" mean?  network problems?  verbose
problems?  install problems?

> Neither does:
> boot net:speed=100,duplex=full - -v install
> Have tried multiple times with different systems ( v440 , 490, 240, T2000)

Again, what is the behavior?

* I would expect you'd need the -v to be interpreted by the kernel, so it
has to be before the lone dash.*

From ashok.karagatla at hp.com  Wed Mar  5 14:41:53 2008
From: ashok.karagatla at hp.com (Karagatla Lankala, Ashok Kumar)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:41:53 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 9 RAID 1+0
Message-ID: <9BD2583AADEA4541860E14B39D2D332C014744204E13@G1W0492.americas.hpqcorp.net>

Hi ,

Please provide me the steps to configure the Raid 1+0 on solaris


Thanks & Regards,
Ashok kumar Karagatla

From s4r3sh at yahoo.com  Thu Mar  6 13:57:56 2008
From: s4r3sh at yahoo.com (suresh sandasani)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:57:56 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Networker doesn't start
Message-ID: <457549.92204.qm@web90604.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Thanks to all who responoded but the EMC engineer  who was installing at our site compared with a working server  and found a Solaris package(SUNwuiu8x 64 bit) was missing .

Networker was able to start after installing SUNwuiu8x.
 
Thanks
/Suresh



----- Original Message ----
From: suresh sandasani <s4r3sh at yahoo.com>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 2:21:44 PM
Subject: Networker doesn't start

Hello All,

After installing Legato Networker Server 7.4.1 on Solaris 9, it fails to start with the following error:

"Function 'iconv_open' failed for UTF-8 to ANSI conversion. The function may be unable to determine the current locale. Verify appropriate values in environment variables LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL and LANG."

Installing the following package couldn't help.
system      SUNWuiu8      Iconv modules for UTF-8 Locale


Any HELP ?

Thank you!
Suresh


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From grove at zeta.org.au  Thu Mar  6 10:41:40 2008
From: grove at zeta.org.au (grove at zeta.org.au)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 02:41:40 +1100 (EST)
Subject: SUMMARY: remote X displays fail after Solaris 10 upgrade
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0803070233131.14745@zathras.uws.edu.au>

Hi,
Thanks to:

Glenn Prince
Peter Kunst

The following document has advice on this problem:

http://blogs.sun.com/gbrunett/?entry=solaris_secure_by_default_part2

Solaris 10 0606 and beyond has a new "secure by default" mode,
that I have never seen as I usually Jumpstart everything and 
the DVD install seems to be the only place where there is an option 
to enable/disable the modes at install time.  I actually said "Yes"
to the prompt which mentions rather obliquely that network services
to the system will be disabled except for SSH but doesn't describe the 
actual impact.

Once I found the blog above, it was pretty straightforward. 
I was hoping this info would be in SunSolve, but it's not - having
to hunt down an external blog to get this info is a bit annoying.

Thanks again to everyone who assisted me.   The actual solution is 
below and I also had to enable RPC and one or two other things as well.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:20:33 +1000
From: Glenn Prince 
Subject: RE: remote X displays fail after Solaris 10 upgrade

Well if you don't want it in SBD mode anymore you could do a:

/usr/sbin/netservices open

And then do a

/usr/sbin/netservices limited

to switch it back. If you do want to enable just the xserver stuff but
leave it in SBD mode then you should be able to do the following cmd:

svccfg -s x11-server setprop options/tcp_listen = boolean: true

Hope this fixes it.

Glenn

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From henson at acm.org  Fri Mar  7 14:51:51 2008
From: henson at acm.org (Paul B. Henson)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:51:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris package installation for Oracle server
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0803031050110.21308@loogie.intranet.csupomona.edu>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0803031050110.21308@loogie.intranet.csupomona.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.55.0803071139260.21585@loogie.intranet.csupomona.edu>

A number of the people who responded to my inquiry requested a summary, so
here it is...

There were 14 relevant responses.

Of those, 9 indicated they currently do custom installs both in general and
7 of those for Oracle specifically (two responders did not manage Oracle
servers).

Five responses indicate they currently do full installs in general and for
Oracle. Of those, four indicated they would prefer to do custom installs,
but due to package dependency issues and lack of support for automatic
dependency installation in the Sun package tools it is not tractable.

There was some rather impolite commentary on the quality and attitude of
Oracle support :).

The general consensus seems to be that minimization is better, but not
everyone has the time to spend the effort on it, particularly given issues
like packaging tools and products like Oracle.

Thanks to everybody who commented...


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From ksonmez at oytek.com.tr  Tue Mar 11 08:04:14 2008
From: ksonmez at oytek.com.tr (Koray Sonmez)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:04:14 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: remote connection failed
In-Reply-To: <d2559e080803101029sb045d1cw66b52f8639c4cc33@mail.gmail.com>
References: <B4BD8C6031F4EC4DAD8EABAB3ABA6CFE012F9AC2@IBCPTEX01.intecbilling.com>
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Problem solved. The partition(s) , which specifiy "mount at boot" in
/etc/vfstab file,  not mount at boot,  closes network services . comment
problem line in /etc/vfstab file reboot and after reboot mount
partition.



On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Koray Sonmez <ksonmez at oytek.com.tr>
wrote:

Hello,

In my solaris 10 system i cannot connect with ssh telnet and ftp. I got
same erros
ssh: connect to host <hostname> port 22: Connection refused
Re: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Does anybody have an idea?
Regards,
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From CJohnson4 at tiaa-cref.org  Tue Mar 11 11:49:22 2008
From: CJohnson4 at tiaa-cref.org (Johnson, Chad)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:49:22 -0400
Subject: SUMMARY:  prtvtoc | fmthard -s - in wrong direction, any fix?
Message-ID: <50BFA7C0BA27F345BE28A21B7BE7D3340A01A039@CHAPDMSXMB04.ad.tiaa-cref.org>

An identical system was discovered and the 'prtvtoc' output was used
from that system to initialize the disk via 'fmthard'.  Once that was
completed the remainder of the work was a straightforward SDS disk
replacement.







Sunmanagers,



One of our admins was replacing a disk and performed the following
command backwards.



prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2



this should have been:



prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2



I am currently searching to find out the previous slice boundaries for
the 'good' disk.  At this point running (while booted to the net in
single user) fstyp /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 returns 'unknown_fstype'.



Any suggestions on recovery methods aside from re-installing?  At this
time I do not know if I can recover the previous slice table or not.





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From grimland at uta.edu  Tue Mar 11 13:37:49 2008
From: grimland at uta.edu (Grimland, Courtney)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:37:49 -0500
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris 9 Kerberos Problem
In-Reply-To: <9A9F358293FF2641A70B4A0AC7D082F3282872@MAILFS2.uta.edu>
References: <9A9F358293FF2641A70B4A0AC7D082F3282872@MAILFS2.uta.edu>
Message-ID: <9A9F358293FF2641A70B4A0AC7D082F328287E@MAILFS2.uta.edu>

Sun support pointed me to an existing bug report (CR 6608799*) that I
never would have found on my own, which basically boils down to a bug
introduced in patch 112908-30 that has yet to be resolved.

I had to back out 113318-33, 112908-31, and 112908-30 and Kerberos
authentication started working again.




*http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6608799




-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Grimland,
Courtney
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:08 PM
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Solaris 9 Kerberos Problem

I posted this a while back but never found a solution, and it's getting
to be a serious problem for me.

Kinit used to work, but at some point (which I can't pin down) it
started failing and I have no idea where to begin:
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From peter at ashlyn.co.uk  Thu Mar 13 05:10:57 2008
From: peter at ashlyn.co.uk (Peter Stokes)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:10:57 +0000
Subject: SUMMARY - Need a copy of SPARC Solaris 10 11/06
Message-ID: <47D8FDB1.3060500@ashlyn.co.uk>

Hi All

As ever this list does not let you down.

I had several offers to send/download, thanks to you all, it was 
appreciated.

I managed to obtain a copy locally in the UK from a list member.

All the best

Peter

Hi All

I am looking for a copy of SPARC Solaris 10 the 11/06 release (this is
required for a specific application).

If anyone can let me have a download site or would cut me a copy that
would be great. I am happy to reimburse any expenses or purchase the
media kit if you have it.

Thanks

Peter
Tel: +44 1636 627900
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From DRoss-Smith at reviewjournal.com  Thu Mar 13 15:55:28 2008
From: DRoss-Smith at reviewjournal.com (DRoss-Smith at reviewjournal.com)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:55:28 -0700
Subject: Summary swap rules.
In-Reply-To: <OF28F10A0E.1D91D4DA-ON8825740B.004F7E6D-8825740B.0050F64F@reviewjournal.com>
Message-ID: <OFED8C5493.85DF6754-ON8825740B.005591EB-8825740B.0072F100@reviewjournal.com>

Summary-
I was asked nicely to not post these types of questions in the future 
because it's off topic for this list.
The list is supposed to be more of a break/fix type of list and not an 
informational list(didn't know until I read the faq).  That said, this 
topic was pretty popular.
And for those who want to see what sunmanagers.org is about, read the FAQ. 
 It has lots of useful links on it pointing to lots of solaris based admin 
stuff (finally read it today- it's good!)

So it looks as if swap is mostly not used anymore and can be kept pretty 
small.  Unless you're running an application that uses lots of swap or 
tempfs.  Examples of needing swap were systems compiling lots of stuff and 
databases.

Favorite posts:
Tim Bradshaw stated what I privately felt- that 1:1 swap to memory is 
becoming impractical on largish systems given the size of boot disks- this 
is what I'm facing now... sizing swap for 32 gb intel blades and a 64gb 
niagara2 blade w/73gb boot disks. Seems a bit tight to do a 1:1 swap to 
memory ratio.
Jeremy Gillow's answer got to the heart of the matter with sun 
documentation for solaris 10... read on below.

Dean Ross-Smith
Unix Admin
Las Vegas Review Journal/Stephens Media.
------------
The person who mailed me saying my question is off topic, also mentioned 
that Oracle 10g recommends 8GB minimum swap.

Kiran Sharma wrote:
"
I think there is some math goes. If ram is more then 4 gb then swap is 
4gb. I think its upto ggb ram 4 gb swap. 16gb ram 8 gb swap. 32 ram==>> 16 
gb swap.
Thats what I did for Redhat server we had and also for 880 and t200 
server.
"

Dave Kensiski wrote:
"
I have systems with 12 to 16 GB of RAM and as a rule just make my swap a 
fixed 4GB space.  As you said, we don't actually use swap on a day-to-day 
basis (in fact, I have Nagios configured to alert me if it gets used at 
all!) so it's really only around for memory leaks and core dumps.  Unless 
you have a really fast memory leak, 4 GB should provide you enough time to 
do some diagnostics before you restart the leaky application, and it's 
certainly enough for an OS core dump.
"

Ric Anderson wrote
"I'd say a disappearing standard.  System dumps seem to just include
the kernel and a hand full of data structures - no where near
all of RAM.  What drives my decision is how much virtual address
space (ab)users will need.  Since Solaris computes VM Size = RAM+Swap
these days, I try to get enough RAM to hold all the resident
sets for applications, and then let swap space absorb the VM needed
beyond the resident set size (with some extra space in both
to allow for growth and for kernel overhead).
"
Matthew stier wrote
"
This is an old BSD  vs SVR4 issue.

You can run a Solaris 2 or later system without swap; and if you do add 
some, it is simply used to increase the systems virtual memory.

Personally, I do setup a 20GB swap partition on the large memory systems 
I do have, simply because the disk is available, and it is a place for 
the kernel to stash a core during a crash.
"
Peter van Gemert wrote
"
Solaris 9 & 10 do not followi the old UNIX way of allocation memory of 
reserving memory against physical memory. This UNIX way was the mean 
reason for configuring a swap partition twice the size of your 
internal memory.

Solaris 9 & 10 (and I believe 8 as well) allocate memory against 
virtual memory. This means that if you know for _sure_ that you have 
enough memory so that swapping will not occur, you might configure 
Solaris without any swap partitions at all. Solaris will then run 
completely from internal memory without any problems.

Biggest caveat is of course crash dumps (which you call core dumps I 
think) which are written to swap space. If you want to save crash 
dumps you could have a swap partition large enough to hold the largest 
crash dump. Another solution might be saving crash dumps in a reserved 
partition. Take a look at the dumpadm command how to do this.
"

Tim Bradshaw wrote:
"
It's typically now becoming impractical to provide as much swap as 
memory on many machines - lots of systems have 72GB boot disks (may be 
146) but much more memory than that.

The only things you *need* swap for are to deal with memory shortfalls 
(should be very rare, and if you get significant shortfall you have 
other problems), and crash dumps.  Even on huge systems crash dumps 
are not often bigger than a few GB, since all you really need is 
kernel storage, and often not all of that.  So I don't generally see 
much use for swap slices bigger than, say 16 or 32GB and often much 
smaller (4-8GB should be more than enough for most things).  There are 
probably weird exceptions.
"

Jeremy Gillow wrote:
"Sun has a reference guide
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq7g?a=view

4GB swap is the max we usually do now, but if you are in the 16-128gb
range 8GB would be better I think.
"

Jeremy's referenced document is:
"Solaris 10 System Administrator Collection >> System Administration 
Guide: Devices and File Systems >> 20.  Configuring Additional Swap Space 
(Tasks)"
---snip---
The most important factors in determining swap space size are the 
requirements of the system's software applications. For example, large 
applications such as computer-aided design simulators, database management 
products, transaction monitors, and geologic analysis systems can consume 
as much as 200b1000 Mbytes of swap space.
Consult your application vendors for swap space requirements for their 
applications.
If you are unable to determine swap space requirements from your 
application vendors, use the following general guidelines based on your 
system type to allocate swap space.
System Type Swap Space Size     Dedicated Dump Device Size 
Workstation with about 4 Gbytes of physical memory      1 Gbyte 1 Gbyte 
Mid-range server with about 8 Gbytes of physical memory 2 Gbytes        2 
Gbytes 
High-end server with about 16 to 128 Gbytes of physical memory  4 Gbytes  
4 Gbytes 
In addition to these general guidelines, consider allocating swap space or 
disk space for the following:
        b"       A dedicated dump device.
        b"       Determine whether large applications (such as compilers) 
will be using the /tmp directory. Then, allocate additional swap space to 
be used by TMPFS
---snip---


sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org wrote on 03/13/2008 07:44:19 AM:

> Hi managers.
> 
> What are the general rules for sizing swap on current systems?
> As cheap as memory is getting these days the newer systems we are 
playing 
> with have 32 or 64GB ram.
> Back in the day when memory was expensive, a 2:1 Swap partition size to 
> RAM ratio was pretty normal.
> Then It was 1:1 as memory has gotten cheaper.
> Is it still a good practice to do 1:1 to allow for huge core dumps on a 
> crash?
> Or is 1:1 Swap:RAM a disappearing standard too because swap isn't used 
> much anymore?
> 
> I'd be curious to hear from admins that run systems with under 128GB ram 

> and admins that run really large memory sun boxes too... how do you 
handle 
> swap on systems with a bunch of RAM?
> 
> I'll summarize what I get back...
> 
> Thanks all!
> Dean Ross-Smith
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From Ugo.Balestrieri at alcatel-lucent.it  Fri Mar 14 09:45:20 2008
From: Ugo.Balestrieri at alcatel-lucent.it (BALESTRIERI UGO)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:45:20 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY : libc.so.1 corrupted on Solaris 9
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Hi thanks to everybody answers

I solved my problem with the following WA :

at the ok prompt with the installation disk 1 of 2 (or the dvd disk) in
the cdrom/dvd player

ok> boot cdrom -s

mount the / partiont (or /usr if you are using a non-standard
partitioning) and copy the file.

 after I umounted /mnt and reboot
now the server is up
 Bye
Ugo


Original question :



	Hi Managers

	I have Sun V250 with solaris 9 but after  libc.so.1 corrupted
file on
	single user mode
	I saved the original one but Is not possible run any unix
command like
	mv and cp
	The server doesn't come up.

	 Do you any suggestions please.

	 Thanks in Advance
	Bye
	Ugo

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From george at yorku.ca  Fri Mar 14 10:33:03 2008
From: george at yorku.ca (George Kahler)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:33:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [SUMMARY] Sun Fire X4200 M2 cloning
In-Reply-To: <20080128.204039.74752735.george@yorku.ca>
References: <20080128.204039.74752735.george@yorku.ca>
Message-ID: <20080314.113303.41635239.george@yorku.ca>

It appears that my previous summary post did not make it out to the
list. My appologies for that.


There were well over  dozen replies which most suggested to use flash
archive.

The flash archive can be created from the source server, then I can
boot the new target server from a CD/DVD and select to install the
flash archive.

Many thanks to all who replied.
George


On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:40:39 -0500 (EST), George Kahler <george at yorku.ca> wrote:
> I have a number of SunFire X4200 M2 x64 servers that require Solaris
> 10 x86 to be installed on them. I have installed and configured all of
> the software on the first server. 
> 
> Q: has anyone figured out a way to (perhaps use the built-in LSI RAID
> controller) clone these servers ?
> 
> BTW, PXE/jumpstart is not an option at this time.
> 
> Thanks,
> George
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From matthew.taylor at montgomerycollege.edu  Fri Mar 14 13:42:42 2008
From: matthew.taylor at montgomerycollege.edu (Matthew Taylor)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:42:42 -0500
Subject: Summary:  Starting Solaris Management Console Server
Message-ID: <C4003152.2FE8%matthew.taylor@montgomerycollege.edu>

All;

Working with Sun I determined that the problem was that SMC under Sol 10 is
regularly being broken by a patch or patches unknown.  They are working on a
fix.  The short term fix was to shut down wbem and a bunch of related
services, remove 23 packages, reinstall the packages in a very specific
order, enable wbem via svcadm bounce the box, remove the .smc.propterties
file, re-enable wbem, and bounce the box one more time to test.  Sun
provided a not for dissemination script and a tar ball of the need to
reinstall packages.

The packages were (and this formatting will probably stink):

SUNWmc              SUNWpmgr            SUNWwbmc
SUNWadmj            SUNWmcc             SUNWrmui            SUNWwbpro
SUNWdclnt           SUNWmccom           SUNWwbapi           SUNWwsr2
SUNWjsnmp           SUNWmcdev           SUNWwbcor           SUNWlvma
SUNWmcex            SUNWwbcou           SUNWlvmg            SUNWmga
SUNWwbdev           SUNWlvmr            SUNWmgapp           SUNWwbdoc

This solution is evolving so anyone with a similar problem I suggest should
talk to Sun directly as today's solution might not fit tomorrow's problem.

Original Post:

I am feeling rather stumped trying to do what should be simple - run the
Solaris Management Console.  The SMC seems can not detect a server running.
My web searches have proved less than fruitful.

A fresh full install of Solaris 10 8/07, patched through a week ago on an
older 4800, updated firmware (5.20.6 build 01).

As soon as I start the smc I get:

"No Solaris Management Console server was available on the specified server.
Please ensure there is a Solaris Management Console server available on the
specified host and that it is running."

So, lets make sure wbem is running:

bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/init.wbem status
Solaris Management Console server not running on port 898.

That could be the problem so we try to start it and check again:

bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/init.wbem start
bash-3.00# /etc/init.d/init.wbem status
Solaris Management Console server not running on port 898.

Ok, so it does not appear to start though it returns no error.

For yucks and grins we check for wbem as a service and find:

bash-3.00# svcs -a | grep wbem
online         11:36:18 svc:/application/management/wbem:default

It does appear to be running?

Really confused now, we check netstat:

bash-3.00# netstat -a |grep 898
localhost.898              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN


Ok, so is it running, or is it not?  If not, why might I see what I see?  If
it is running, why won't the smc detect a running server?

Any help appreciated.

-- 
Matthew Taylor
Montgomery College
Office of Information Technology
240.567.3100
matthew.taylor at montgomerycollege.edu
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From osama at myrealbox.com  Mon Mar 17 09:48:07 2008
From: osama at myrealbox.com (Osama Ahmed)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:48:07 +0200
Subject: NOSUMMARY: Solaris Kernel tables utilization
Message-ID: <1205765287.4069789cosama@myrealbox.com>

I received no answer. I tried to google but found nothing.

It seems that Solaris did not have this type of advanced monitoring tools.

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Osama Ahmed" <osama at myrealbox.com>
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:47:15 +0200
Subject: Solaris Kernel tables utilization

Hi,
  I came from HP-UX world.  In HP-UX there are commands to check the
utilization of kernel tables like shared memory , number of file
descriptorsb&(kcusage)

My question:
- Any native Solaris commands to list all and check the utilization of kernel
tables/limits ?
- Any other 3rd party tools to check if kernel parameters needed to be
reconfigured or increased ?

I will summarize.

Thanks.

Osama
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From ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr  Mon Mar 17 10:57:47 2008
From: ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Henry?=)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:57:47 +0100
Subject: Summary: name resolution issue in solaris 10
In-Reply-To: <47D957D6.5040800@cmi.univ-mrs.fr>
References: <47D957D6.5040800@cmi.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <47DE94FB.7080905@cmi.univ-mrs.fr>

thanks to darren dunham, rob mcmahon, crist clark, andrey borzenkov and 
kiran sharma for ttheir replies.

the simpliest solution is to add FQDN in netgroups file:
exports   clientA clientB
clientA   (clientA,,) (clientA.my.domain.fr,,)
clientB   (clientB,,) (clientB.my.domain.fr,,)

my original post
> since few days, i've got an issue with machines name resolution on the 
> nfs server.
> The nfs server (servA) is a NIS client (solaris 10 sparc 11/08), and 
> directories are shared with netgroups constraints. The nis map netgroup 
> contains all clients names (not fqdn names). It worked.
> But now, nfs clients can't mount the shared dirs, because the nfs server 
> see requests from clientA.my.domain.fr instead of clientA:
> servA-root% snoop clientA
> Using device /dev/e1000g0 (promiscuous mode)
> clientA.my.domain.fr -> servA         TCP D=111 S=658 Ack=3984864805 
> Seq=4069484885 Len=0 Win=7136 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 1599660880 10605740>
>        servA -> clientA.my.domain.fr MOUNT3 R Mount Permission denied
> 
> When i use getent, i got the correct name:
> servA-root% getent hosts clientA
> 192.168.0.219   clientA
> 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf contains:
> hosts: files nis dns
> 
> ans /etc/resolv.conf:
> domain my.domain.fr
> nameserver 192.168.0.23
> 
> The only thing i notice is that if i suppress /etc/resolv.conf, it works 
> . But in this case, this is sendmail that become broken!
> 
> What is the right way to have nis resolution working?
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From leviashcol at hotpop.com  Mon Mar 17 15:15:05 2008
From: leviashcol at hotpop.com (Levi Ashcol)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:15:05 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris and SAN Connectivity
Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAGJSYd2Bgp5OhzplUKva/fzCgAAAEAAAAOHzZJYlGXhLrVh6/qI42BkBAAAAAA==@hotpop.com>

Hello,
   Thanks to  Ketan Patel Markus Mayer and Sengork.

I found Ketan's email below contains the best SUMMARY.

Markus suggested "Solaris Fibre Channel and Storage Multipathing Guide",
part number 819-0139 from Sun, http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0139 .

Sengork suggested a utility called emlxadm, this utility is not natively
installed with Solaris.

" The Emulex tools and drivers are provided by the EMLXemlxu package, which
you can download from Emulexs website. The pkgadd utility can be used to
install the package, and it will place the management tools under the
/opt/EMLXemlxu directory."

Thanks.

Levi

-----Original Message-----
From: ketan.patel at uk.nomura.com [mailto:ketan.patel at uk.nomura.com]
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:18 PM
To: leviashcol at hotpop.com
Subject: RE: Solaris and SAN Connectivity

Hi Levi,

I can answer a few of your questions:

1. If you are using Emulex/Qlogic provided drivers on Solaris, you don't
need to install any Sun package. If you plan to use solaris drivers,
then you should install Sun Storedge Traffic manager Software (or Sun
SAN foundation). In sol 10, I think you don't need to install anything.
Drivers are already integrated.

2. In order to determine the controller numbers, use the utilities
provided by Emulex (lpfcutil) or Qlogic (scli). Or you can use cfgadm (a
solaris command).

3. Same as above.

4. On switch, you need to create a zone comprising host and disk arrays.
On disk array, you need to create lun and present it to the host. On
host, you just need devfsadm.

5. you don't need to change /kernel/drv/sd.conf now a days. At least we
don't do any more. The drivers are smart enough to figure out the
controller number. You can use vendor utilities to give a particular
controller number (same as plumbing the network interface).

6- What about the HBA configuration file lpfc.conf, qlc.conf ? Any
needed changes ?
No, unless you want a particular controller to be managed/not managed by
drivers, or change time outs, or change number of retries, or load
balancing policy.

7- How to know the WWID of the HBA?
Vendor utilities should do this for you. From Sun point of view, you can
run following script:
#!/bin/sh
for i in `cfgadm | grep fc-fabric | awk '{print $1}'`; do
  dev="`cfgadm -lv $i | grep devices | awk '{print $NF}'`"
  wwn="`luxadm -e dump_map $dev | grep 'Host Bus' | awk '{print $4}'`"
  echo "$i: $wwn"
done
Or command line: on all versions:
#prtpicl -v -c scsi-fcp | grep wwn (On all versions)
  :node-wwn      20  00  00  e0  8b  94  92  8d
  :port-wwn      21  00  00  e0  8b  94  92  8d
# prtconf -vp | grep -i ww
            port-wwn:  210000e0.8b80fb81
            node-wwn:  200000e0.8b80fb81
On Sol 10
# fcinfo hba-port

8- Is the disk name "c10t60020F2000000CAA3DABB7B10001D2D4d0s2 function
in SAN switch port and LUN ID ? What is the impact of changing switch
port ,
LUN number on the storage on disk naming ?
Once the ctds numbers are allocated, changing switch port etc should not
have any impact on existing name - theoretically. Haven't came across
that situation ever. The target number might be the UUID of the lun
created on EMC.

9- What is the PWWN and NWWN?
Let me know if you find out their difference :) I've usually seen them
beginning with 20/21, 50/51.

10-Any good books or reference that fully explain Solaris-SAN
connectivity?
Learning by experience and google. We are talking about multiple vendors
and different entities (sun, emc, Emulex, qlogic). It is difficult find
a single document covering everything.

You also need to figure out what multipathing you are going to use.
There are various options - mpxio from sun, powerpath from emc, dmp from
veritas.

Drivers: Sun branded qlogic card - qlc, Sun branded Emulex card - emlxs,
Original qlogic card - qla, original Emulex card - elmx

Hope this helps. Don't forget to summarise for others.
Cheers
Ketan

-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces at sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Levi Ashcol
Sent: 13 March 2008 18:32
To: sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org
Subject: Solaris and SAN Connectivity

Hi,
  I am new to connecting Solaris based servers to SAN. We are in the
process
of purchasing new EMC DMX storage and Qlogic/Emulex HBAs.

I have some newbie questions and hope Gurus help me in them:

1- What is the necessary Solaris packages to be installed to connect to
SAN
?
2- How I know which HBA in the server the fiber cable is connected to ?
(I
have c2, c3, c4how can I know which HBA the cable is plugged in ?
3- How to Check HBA-switch connectivity status? How can I know if the
link
is up or not ?
4- What should be done from the storage/SAN switch before working on the
host side ? (Zone, masking )
5- What are the necessary changes in the /kernel/drv/sd.conf file ?
6- What about the HBA configuration file lpfc.conf, qlc.conf ? Any
needed
changes ?
7- How to know the WWID of the HBA ?
8- Is the disk name "c10t60020F2000000CAA3DABB7B10001D2D4d0s2 function
in
SAN switch port and LUN ID ? What is the impact of changing switch port
,
LUN number on the storage on disk naming ?
9- What is the PWWN and NWWN?
10-Any good books or reference that fully explain Solaris-SAN
connectivity ?

I will definitely summarize.

Thanks.

Levi

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From Crist.Clark at globalstar.com  Mon Mar 17 19:00:08 2008
From: Crist.Clark at globalstar.com (Crist Clark)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:00:08 -0700
Subject: SUMMARY: How to Un-inherit-pkg-dir
In-Reply-To: <47CFF502.8C45.0097.0@globalstar.com>
References: <47CFF502.8C45.0097.0@globalstar.com>
Message-ID: <47DEA395.8C45.0097.0@globalstar.com>

Thank you to a number of respondents. However, I ended up
just sticking with the method I outlined in my original
message. I did a lofs mount of /opt/local over /usr/local
all internal to the particular zone.

One other solution a number of people sent me was a variation
on that where you do the loopback mount from the global
zone into the non-global zone using zonecfg(1M) commands,

	zonecfg:ainterdoc> add fs
	zonecfg:ainterdoc:fs> set dir=/usr/local
	zonecfg:ainterdoc:fs> set special=/opt/local
	zonecfg:ainterdoc:fs> set type=lofs
	zonecfg:ainterdoc:fs> end

That way the global /opt/local gets mounted in the non-global
zone. For my case, it didn't seem to offer any advantages over
just doing it all internal to the zone, so I did not go that
way.

The other option two people presented was to ignore the
zonecfg(1M) command's warning that "removing inherit-pkg-dir
not allowed," and do so manually by editing the zone's
configuration file. The file in question is the,

	/etc/zones/<zonename>.xml

File. Just look for the "inherit-pkg-dir" line for the
file system of interested and remove it. My procedure would
have been,

	1. Halt zone.
	2. Edit zone's XML file.
	3. Copy /usr from global zone to the non-global zone.
	4. Restart zone.

But I opted not to go this way. I don't think the actual
procedure would have caused problems, but the potential
for future administration headaches when patching the system
made me decide the loopback mount of /opt/local was the
best way to go short of tearing down the whole thing and
starting over.

Thanks again fellow Sun managers.

On 3/6/2008 at 1:43 PM, "Crist Clark" <Crist.Clark at globalstar.com>
wrote:
> I've got a non-global zone that has the default four
> directories from the global zone set to inherit-pkg-dir,
> /lib, /platform, /sbin, and /usr. However, now it is
> turning out that we have some (poorly assembled) software
> that is insisting on being installed in /usr/local.
> Obviously, this does not work with /usr mounted as a
> read-only loopback.
> 
> My initial response was to bring down the zone, copy the
> global /usr to the zone's /usr and then just un-inherit
> the directory. However, the zonecfg(1M) is not allowing
> me to un-inherit,
> 
> 	zonecfg:ainterdoc> remove inherit-pkg-dir dir=/usr
> 	Zone ainterdoc already installed; remove inherit-pkg-dir not
> allowed.
> 
> Is there a way to force the removal without destroying
> (uninstalling) the zone?
> 
> A workaround I've thought of is to do something like,
> 
> 	# cd /zone/ainterdoc/root/opt
> 	# (cd /usr ; tar cf - local) | tar xf -
> 
> Then add an entry into the non-global zone's vfstab to
> loopback mount its /opt/local over /usr/local. The
> problem with this is that any future packages or patches
> to things installed in the global /usr/local be inconsistent
> in the zone. The files will not be touched, but the /var/sadm
> database will. (Right?)
> 
> As for future installations, anyone have a workaround for
> this kind of problem so we can still share /usr, but have
> /usr/local unique to the zone for broken software
> installations?


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From andy.kannberg at gmail.com  Thu Mar 20 05:04:43 2008
From: andy.kannberg at gmail.com (Andy Kannberg)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:04:43 +0100
Subject: SUMMARY: DVI output on Blade 1500 does not work
Message-ID: <2757a8ab0803200304n52a478f6jbb425c973e2d1262@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Thanks to all for the reactions, especially to Brian D. Gregg and Casper
Dik, who helped me in the direction of the fbconfig utility and the Xservers
file. Also the manual Brian linked at
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-3290-13/index.html helped me a lot !

The solution was indeed, as Brian said, adding a line in the Xservers file,
pointing to port B, which is the DVI connector.

:0      Local local_uid at console root /usr/openwin/bin/Xsun -dev
/dev/fbs/pfb0b

Did the job !!

The DVI ouput in a res of 1152x900x60, showing a stable screen on the 22"
Lenovo screen.

I'm a happy chap now :-)

cheers,
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From sunhux at gmail.com  Tue Mar 25 01:40:45 2008
From: sunhux at gmail.com (sunhux G)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:40:45 +0800
Subject: Summary: Checklist of files to move to new server/box (passwd,
	shadow, hosts, cron files, *.conf...)
Message-ID: <60f08e700803242340x24e38dc1pd05e0935bd8b28e3@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks to Chris, Ric & Murat & pardon my disorganized summary:

Their replies added to my original email to make
it a more thorough list :


/etc/default/*

ssh config & keys in /etc/ssh

ftp access rules in /etc/ftpd

/etc/ftpusers (as we used ftp besides scp in our environment)

/etc/inetd

/home/...  or /export/home/...   (ie users' home directories)

/var/spool/cron/crontabs


>       We previously tuned /etc/system - can we just copy it over

      For 5120/5220/5240 CMT servers you'll absolutely need new
 /etc/system tuned for CMT servers.

Extras :

* If you collect sar statistics & if you may need them on new server :
/var/adm/sa/sa*
* User home directories to be copied may reside on /export.
* In /opt there may be some optional packages.
* If you use mysql you may want to copy /etc/my.cnf file.
...



On 3/24/08, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We're planning to migrate to another hardware T5120
> so we're coming up with a list of files that should be
> copied over to the new box.  Is there a checklist that
> lists files/configurations that need to be moved across?
>
>
> Offhand, I can only think of :
>
> a) files in /etc   like passwd, group, shadow,  hosts, hostname.*,
> defaultrouter
>     resolv.conf (for DNS)
>
> b) what's the filename/directory which hold the cron table
>     for the various users (oracle, root, ...)?  If I can copy them
>     over, that will be faster (rather than using root to "su - user"
>     & individually recreating their crontabs)
>
> c) .profile   of root, oracle, ...
>
> d) most of the /etc/*.conf files are not touched, so we'll just use
>     what's given in the new server after Solaris 10 installation
>
> e) /etc/init.d/*  startup/shutdown scripts & their links in /etc/rcX.d
>
>
> Anything else?
>
>
> Thanks
> U
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From leviashcol at hotpop.com  Fri Mar 28 03:09:08 2008
From: leviashcol at hotpop.com (Levi Ashcol)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:09:08 +0200
Subject: SUMMARY: Solaris Backups
Message-ID: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAGJSYd2Bgp5OhzplUKva/fzCgAAAEAAAAOs8x03uWepFjWy+CY+/sNwBAAAAAA==@hotpop.com>

Thanks to Dean Ross-Smith, Tobias Nutt, Stan Horwitz, Ken Sibley, Chris H
Ruhnke, Rich Kulawiec and Sengor.

People suggestions were:
 1 - Live upgrade: Can be used to clone boot disks.

 2 - Flash Archive: Using flarcreate to create a system archive, store it on
a jumpstart server and recover any failed server from the jumpstart server
with this archive, use flarsplit you can expand the archive to single files
and restore to the server from there but it isn't to use from the normal
user.

 3 - Dedicated backup package such as EMC NetWorker, Symanetec Netbackup
(Bare Metal), and Commvault Galaxy might be considered with that large a
number of servers. However with 3rd party network backup products and
"bare-metal" recovery is that to recover a boot disk you have to install a
bootable mini-root somewhere and then install the backup utility (or its
local client).  Then you can recover the boot disk filesystems.(recovery
does not extend across mount points onto other drives beyond the boot
drive).

 4 - Ufsdump is the best tool as there is a massive amount of experience out
there with it, so chances are any problem you'll run into has already been
solved by someone else.

 5 - Some backup pointers at http://www.solaris4you.dk/ .

My choice will be option 3 as I have a large amount of servers and really
need to automate and centralize the system backups.

Thanks.

Levi




From: Levi Ashcol [mailto:leviashcol at hotpop.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:01 PM
To: 'sunmanagers at sunmanagers.org'
Subject: Solaris Backups

Hi,
  I am working in the data center with more than 300 SUN servers of
different class (entry, mid, high end) and Solaris versions 8/9/10. I am
looking for a solution that can help in backup up Solaris boot disk (system
disk) for all these servers with the possibility of restoring a whole server
(in case of HDD failure) or a single system file from a specific server.

 I read something about flash archives but I guess It will not fulfill the
requirements above.

I will appreciate any pointer/3rd party SW/GUI interface/documentation.

IWS.

Levi

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From scottd at HanoverDirect.com  Fri Mar 28 13:03:32 2008
From: scottd at HanoverDirect.com (Deiter, Scott)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:03:32 -0400
Subject: Summary:  Solaris 10 upgrade.
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References: <B4BD8C6031F4EC4DAD8EABAB3ABA6CFE012F9AC2@IBCPTEX01.intecbilling.com><96E68311E829E147865DC064BE1346CF014683A4@oytexc01.oytek.com.tr><d2559e080803100909j25e2f993ja7a50cafa8de16e8@mail.gmail.com><96E68311E829E147865DC064BE1346CF014683A8@oytexc01.oytek.com.tr><d2559e080803101029sb045d1cw66b52f8639c4cc33@mail.gmail.com><96E68311E829E147865DC064BE1346CF014683B2@oytexc01.oytek.com.tr><ABF001998D701B4BBA6C58B131C42DFD09404CDF@HDIMAIL.hanoverdirect.lcl>
	<ABF001998D701B4BBA6C58B131C42DFD09404D3E@HDIMAIL.hanoverdirect.lcl>
Message-ID: <ABF001998D701B4BBA6C58B131C42DFD09404DA0@HDIMAIL.hanoverdirect.lcl>

 Thanks for all the input.
We have yet to decide about the live upgrade option.

After a long service ticket with sun we finally ran truss against
pfinstall.

 truss -faeildo /a/pfinstall.truss pfinstall -D /tmp/prof

This show us that the file /a/kernel/drv/md.conf had entries from the
last migration.

We replaced the md.conf file with the default file that contains only
comments.


Now it's failing with other errors but at least it's attempting the
upgrade.

Scott Deiter
System Administrator
Hanover Direct, Inc.
Hanover, PA
Voice: 717-633-3298
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From sunhux at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 00:27:51 2008
From: sunhux at gmail.com (sunhux G)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:27:51 +0800
Subject: Summary: Will changing hostname affect Oracle10g, ssh etc
Message-ID: <60f08e700803302227g770a7b7dxb0d7945ad7ba89a9@mail.gmail.com>

Many thanks to Pedro & Brian's extensive answers & the
others (Stan, Tim, Ioan, Peter).

a) tnsnames.ora, listener.ora have to be taken care of but
    if they uses hostname/FQDN from DNS/hosts table, then it
    will be taken care of when updated in DNS/hosts.  In our
    case,  alas, DBA had hardcoded the IP address in these
    files so we'll have to edit them accordingly

b) /etc/net/* are obsoleted in Solaris 10

c) best not to change the hostname & instead change the
    login prompt or terminal program's color scheme/settings
    to help avoid logging into the wrong server

d) don't change the hostname to minimize amount of changes
    on the day of cutover

e) do a search for the hostname and IP string in the
    application directories

U


On 3/28/08, sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Apologies if this should have been posted in an Oracle
> /other lists.
>
> Just bought a T5120 running Solaris 10 & a colleague
> would like a temporary hostname be given to the host
> & on the day this server goes live, change the hostname
> to the ultimate production hostname.
>
> Questions are :
> Will changing hostname affect Oracle10g, Ssh, HP Data
> Protector agent (/opt/aworks/agents/bin/hpaAgent)  & a
> Liebert UPS agent ("/opt/MultiLink/bin/LiebertM" daemon)
> or do we need to reinstall these software after changing
> hostname & IP addr?
>
> The steps involved in changing hostname (excluding IP addr)
> are quite tedious :
>  /etc/hosts  (/etc/inet/hosts)
> /etc/nodename
> /etc/hostname.*interface*
> /etc/net/ticlts/hosts
> /etc/net/ticots/hosts
> /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
> /etc/inet/ipnodes
> /etc/nodename
>
> and rename directory under /var/crash
> # cd /var/crash
> # mv oldname newname
> Use "hostname newname" to change the hostname
> on the fly (so don't have to reboot server).
>
>
> My view is it's fair to use a temporary IP address (so tt
> the old & new servers are on the same LAN for  ease
> of transferring files/data from old to new server)   & on
> the day of going live, change the IP addr to actual
> production addr but my colleague still would like to use
> a temporary hostname to avoid confusion (in case we
> login to the wrong server).
>
>
> Thanks for your inputs,
> U
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