This post describes how to select the firmware, the firmware upgrade method and upgrade the system firmware on Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 server Firmware Verification 1. To determine the current System Firmware revision installed on the system, from the System Controller command-line interface...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Troubleshooting / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published August 29, 2011
It is so common that servers encounter issues related to hardware and those errors cannot be diagnosed by Operating system level utilities. To perform preliminary diagnosis and to pin point the hardware trouble, system admins have to rely on OBP (Open Boot PROM) diagnosis options. at OBP level,...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Best Practices / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published January 1, 2012 · Last modified August 5, 2016
It is considered a ‘Best Practice’ to configure a ‘loghost’s for each server and production domain. A ‘Loghost’ on a Solaris platform can permanently save messages that are logged in the System Controller’s NVRAM buffer. This will insure that they are not lost due to either a...
It is considered a ‘Best Practice’ to configure a ‘loghost’s for each server and production domain. A ‘Loghost’ on a Solaris platform can permanently save messages that are logged in the System Controller’s NVRAM buffer. This will insure that they are not lost due to either a...
Below are the steps commonly followed for the most of the enterprise networks where the data center located remotely and support performs build procedures remotely. 1. Procuring Hardware 2. Allocate DC space and Racking Hardware 3. Allocating network ports 4. Configuring remote consoles 5. Gather System...
System Controller battery (BATTERY at SC/BAT/V_BAT has exceeded low warning) failure in T-series servers. Many a times you will get a hardware error in /var/adm/messages (or at ALOM/LOM prompt, console messages) for SC battery failure, In this post I will explain the battery replacement procedure along...
Below Commands will help to clear ILOM/SP, faultmgmt shell, and FMA faults on the T3-x and T4-x Server
You might have already read my old post, 7 social engineering tips that new system admins should know in new team ,where I have discussed the social engineering points that helps you to quickly sync with the new team. And this post is the continuation post...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published July 7, 2011 · Last modified August 5, 2016
The most popular and widely used term in any system administrator’s life is SCSI ( Small Computer System Interface ) , the name says it Small but you have to believe me that this is the one that makes you big as SysAdmin. Let...
ZFS stands for “Zettabyte File System”. Zfs is a 128 bit Fs that was firstly introduced on June 2006 with Solaris 10 6/06 release. ZFS allows 256 quadrillion zettabytes of storage. Which means there would be no limit on number of filesystems and on number of...
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