Sysadmin Corner
x4100 sun ipmitool x4200 ilom | General | Friday July 25, 2008 | By William Hathaway
x4[12]00s appear to have a default power policy of 'previous' which means if the machines were off when they lost power, they won't automatically start back up when power is restored. You can change that to 'always-on' which will always start the system...
Sysadmin Corner
locator x86 ilom sun t2000 x4200 alom x4100 locate sparc | General | Wednesday July 23, 2008 | By William Hathaway
If you want to turn on or off the white locate lights on a Sun machine that uses the ALOM service processor firmware (entry level SPARC and CMT servers) it is simple, use: setlocator on or setlocator off If you want to do the same for...
Directory Services
dsee directoryserver zfs backups sun ldap | General | Friday May 16, 2008 | By William Hathaway
Frozen Mode In the 6.x branch of Sun's Directory Server software, a new feature was introduced called frozen mode . Frozen mode essentially tells the server to stop all operations and puts the database(s) into a consistent state. This is a very handy...
Sysadmin Corner
firmware patches sun systems | General | Thursday May 15, 2008 | By William Hathaway
Sun just published a new set of pages on the BigAdmin Patch Hub that provides general information on system firmware as well as a super handy matrix that tells which patches provide firmware for the various hardware systems. It is really handy to...
Sysadmin Corner
gdd troubleshooting sun debug | General | Wednesday April 16, 2008 | By William Hathaway
When you run into a problem with computers and need to talk to someone else (whether it is an official support channel or an unofficial mailing-list/forum/irc chatroom), it is critical to gather the basic information that will enable people to help you. ...
Sysadmin Corner
sun blade console b6000 x6250 | General | Wednesday April 09, 2008 | By William Hathaway
I was recently working with a customer that uses Sun's Intel-based x6250 blades in a B6000 chassis. The customer had loaded VMWare ESX server on the blade. ESX was working fine, but we were only able to access the console via the web-based remote...
Sysadmin Corner
solaris sun t5240 niagara2 t5140 | General | Wednesday April 09, 2008 | By William Hathaway
Sun announced the new dual-socket Niagara 2 servers today. They hold two 64 thread Niagara 2 chips, pretty impressive computing power in a small and energy efficient box. Check out the details on the 1 rack-unit T5140 or the 2 rack-unit T5240...
