fcinfo command appeared only from Solaris 10 u1 ( Solaris 10 1/06).
If you have it missing, that chances are you have the old Solaris 10 version.
bash-3.00# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 22 January 2005
fcinfo command is provided [...]
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Posted in Solaris, Solaris Comm on August 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Solaris 10 comes with Solaris Fault management Facility which defines error messages in a well-defined and explicit format.
Below is a sample of such error message
Use fmdump to find error memory module
bash-3.00# fmdump -v -u cle6c844-8789-ed25-b8b2-cc507318a20f
TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID
Aug 04 13:41:20.6073 bde3afe6-3bb8-c6a2-fbb2-822b0b879b50 SUN4U-8000-35
95% fault.memory.bank
Problem in: mem:///unum=Slot,A:J8100,J8101,J8201,J8200
Affects: mem:///unum=Slot,A:J8100,J8101,J8201,J8200
FRU: mem:///unum=Slot,A:J8100,J8101,J8201,J8200
The FRU line declares the part which needs to be [...]
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Posted in Solaris, Solaris Comm on July 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sneep provides a persistent, software-accessible Chassis Serial Number (CSN) for virtually all Sun Solaris hardware platforms. Sneep uses the system EEPROM for storage of the Chassis Serial Number and any other important user-defined data such as asset, contract, or location information. The presence of the software-accessible serial number and other service-related information can significantly simplify [...]
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Posted in Solaris, Sun Storage on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This following document describes the process of replacing a failed internal disk on the Sun Fire[TM] V440 server when the disk is not mirrored using the on-board hardware RAID controller.
1. Verify which disk drive corresponds with which logical device name andphysical device name. Listed below is the table for the v440 disk devices:
Disk Slot Number [...]
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Posted in Solaris, Solaris Comm on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following tricks shows you how to label multiple disks with the same disk geometry using prtvtoc and fmthard commands.
# for i in 3 4 5
> do
> prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0 | fmthard -s – /dev/rdsk/c3t${i}d0s2
> done
fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.fmthard: New volume table [...]
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