Managing devices in the oracle solaris os oracle solaris. Hi all, i try to configure two hp ultrium 6scsi tape drives on solaris 10 x86 but without success. To install and configure the sg and the st drivers. Upon reboot, solaris should detect and rebuild the proper devices within devrmtcbn. Oracle solaris commands and standards oracle solaris 10. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas. The printer server is used by many clients, macos, windows and solaris. It configures just fine on the redhat enterprise linux server, but it wont configure on the solaris 9 or 10 box. Do you have persistent binding in place at hba level. When connecting using qlogic oem fibre channel cards with an oracle fibre channel card driver, the configuration file will need to be edited as follows. My nic,a broadcom integrated chipset dont work with solaris. In linux and unixlike system, the mt command is used to control operations of the tape drive, such as finding status or seeking through files on. Hi all, i have scheduled a backup through the dd command which will execute every wednesday at 12.
The bsg driver also supports the sg version 4 interface which at this time the sg driver does not. This bug occurs while using the samba server with winbind in an active directory environment. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Install solaris 10 with an internal storagetek sas hba raid card. What the sg driver does linux documentation project. That site includes this helpful diagrammatic overview. Upon reboot, solaris should detect and rebuild the proper devices within devrmtcbn reboot r 3.
To download and install the driver for solaris operating systems. Configuring solaris 10 x86 for multiple drive paths. The scsi disk driver sd, once device initialization is complete, only sends scsi read and write commands. Verify the sg driver detected the proper devices using. This package is supported on solaris 10 and solaris 11 platforms. What command can i run on a solaris 8 server to check the hardware ie number of processors, speed of processors, installed memory etc. Drives are not being recognized by the os steps to rebuild the dev.
Unable to use reboot command to boot 32bit kernel 6741682. Solaris add install new software packages last updated february 1, 2005 in categories news package can be install from cdrom, network i. Sun storagetek sas raid hba, internal downloads it would be a good idea to use the latest solaris 10 1008 update 6, this version already includes the hbadriver module aac. Linux command summary solaris before you begin on solaris about the netbackup sg driver determining if the netbackup sg driver is installed. Server can not detect robotic, and only detect tape driver so that netbackup cannot detect robotic. Command durations are typically only shown if verbose is used 3 or more times. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Youve probably configured the sg driver to look only at lun 0 check kerneldrv sg. On both systems, i can see the proper number of devices in devscsichanger and devscsisequential, but. At some point in time, there was a solaris 10 kernel patch that broke the nbu sg driver. May 19, 20 solaris 10 troubleshooting hba card or lun issue run the command fcinfo hbaport to get the wwpn and wwnn, contact storage administrator to help you further with the pn and nn number, if the hba port status is not showing as online.
Download the appropriate driver filetar file from the other system and copy it to the solaris machine. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Installing the emc powerpath driver on a system with a perc 6i or cerc6 controller under solaris. So the update to sol10 mayde delete your sg driver or the sg config. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Determine if an sg driver is loaded by using the following command. With fibre channel devices, it is possible to have scsi target values up to 127. Here are the basic steps to rebuild the devsg and devrmt devices on a solaris server. Solaris 10 and broadcom drivers hi to all, ive installed solaris 10 on my workstation but ive some networks problems. The command queue depth setting must be adjusted for both direct connection and switch connection. There are two hba drivers that can be used for emulex hbas.
We uninstalled nbu and made sure the sg driver was gone. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. The driver update disk dud is an extractable image. This improvement means that your driver customizations are not overwritten when the system is upgraded. Mount the install cd or dvd with the package you wish to install. Scsi commands allow netbackup to discover and configure devices.
Errors when more than 10 netbackup jobs are active. In the oracle solaris 11 release, driver customizations are made in the etc driver drv directory rather than in the kernel directory as in previous releases. Identify sun fibre channel fc hba solaris specialists blog. If device2 is a file, a datastream package will be created. After the sg driver is loaded, the devsg devices should be present and the sg driver can be used to access scsi devices. The command queue depth setting is specified in the configuration file etcsystem. If enhanced support facility comes with sparc enterprise ervers, install it. With the invention of native fibre tape drives like the stk 9840 it is now possible to have scsi ids or scsi targets that are greater than 15. So unless a large number of addresses are involved it may be safer to reassign them one address at a time.
The sg driver permits user applications to send scsi commands to devices that understand them. Determining if the netbackup sg driver is installed. Solaris operating system version 11 and later solaris x64x86 operating system version 11 and later information in this document applies to any platform. Nfs or downloading from internet and then add it to system, or from existing location such as varspoolpkg directory if. These problems can range from a scsi bus not able to detect a device to system panics. The device driver for dell perc 6i controller is not included with the solaris 10 0508. Whit the prtconf command im unable to identify the correct chipsets model. This driver is called the scsa generic scsi passthru driver, also referred to as the sg driver. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. The interface of sg is at the level of scsi command requests and their associated responses. How to configure tape drive on solaris for veritas netbackup.
Without sneep, only a subset of the solarisbased hardware platforms have a mechanism to maintain a softwareaccessible serial number. Sunwgcc note the period following d is not a typo it indicates that pkgadd should look in the current directory for the package sunwgcc. Install a package from solaris 10 cd oracle community. Suns solaris 10 operating system allows programs that are expected to be running all of the time to be run as a service, which allows them to be automatically restarted. Quick guide to rebuilding the sg drivers in solaris 10. Configuring device drivers on oracle solaris systems. Solaris add install new software packages nixcraft. Change to the appropriate directory to run commands. Processes and process control ps displays processes running on a host prstat displays iterating list of processes by cpu. I have a solaris 10 x86 server connected by fc switch to a sl500 tape library and 2hp lto5. If the logical domain has degraded memory because of a memory failure, when dynamic reconfiguration of the physical partition is executed with the deleteboard8 command, oracle solaris on the domain with the degraded memory may enter the panic state. Reduced ixgbe driver performance in solaris 10 1009 6885903.
Once the driver has been installed, it is not necessary to reboot the system or run the stall command during or after each system boot. In linux and unixlike system, the mt command is used to control operations of the tape drive, such as finding status or seeking through files on a tape or writing tape control marks to the tape. These commands allow you to add, list, or remove devices for specific solaris zones. Move the existing nf to a backup this must be a move, otherwise a later step. The sg command works similar to newgrp but accepts a command. Hba sgxpci1fcqf2 driver for solaris 10 oracle community. Configuring sg and st drivers this procedure contains instructions for configuring the sg driver for scsi targets 0 thru 6 and 8 thru 15 for fast or wide adapter cards. This command is only available on solaris 11 and later. Setup printer server using cups and windows 7 x64 now that solaris 11. Command line interface cli management tool for fibre channel and converged network adapters. Installing the tivoli storage manager device driver to. Symantec netbackup device configuration guide thesoftwaredescribedinthisbookisfurnishedunderalicenseagreementandmaybeused only in accordance with the terms of the. Ports 5 and 6 of the artm10g are direct passthrough connections to the zone 3.
When you type a command and press the return key, your system runs the command, waits for the command to complete a task, and then prompts you for another command. And im searching hovewer for some drivers but im fear that broadcom dont release driver. Tivoli storage manager tape labels can be overwritten by an application that uses a generic or native device driver. To take advantage of this extended scsi target limit it is necessary to configure the st scsi tape driver, the sg scsi passthru driver, and the device links files so that the sg driver will see these devices with the higher scsi targets. The following section describes behavior changes in certain commands and standards inthe oracle solaris 10 os. The tivoli storage manager device driver package includes the device mapping commands devadd, devlist, and devrem for solaris version 10. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. If you are using usb, see the previous mount article on how to mount usb on solaris.
Now were trying to install nw, and its giving us fits. Sg1 user commands sg1 name top sg execute command as different group id synopsis top sg group c command description top the sg command works similar to newgrp but accepts a command. The driver serves as the operating systems interpreter for that piece of hardware. Solaris 10 run netbackup cannot detect sun storageteksl48. Reexecuting the command with the same addresses will cause the earlier addresses to be reassigned again. The nxge driver is managed by the dladm commandline utility, which allows vlans. Zettabyte file system zfs is a oracle product built into the solaris 10 and solaris 11 operating. Veritas recommends that you prevent solaris from unloading the drivers from.
However the sg driver is still needed to talk to devices such as enclosures which have no specialized driver in linux. The drivers netbackup uses are the st driver from sun, the sg driver from veritas, and fibre channel drivers. Chapter 2 logging in and using basic sunos commands. Iso that contains a specific set of drivers and directory structure to be loaded during an operating system installation to a remote lun over a san.
Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on the network. When you created a sg links file, you have to append it to the etcdevlink. On solaris 10 and earlier, you must configure the sg driver manually. As more users have begun adopting the solaris 10 os for x86 and x64 platforms, there has also been an increase in driver development and testing. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. Oct 24, 2016 this issue is due to changes in the os where the sg driver is no longer loaded during system boot. This issue is due to changes in the os where the sg driver is no longer loaded during system boot. Dec 18, 2006 this driver is called the scsa generic scsi passthru driver, also referred to as the sg driver. Lpxxxxxxs are sun emulex hba cards ie has a s for sun at end. With most shells you may run sg from, you need to enclose multiword commands in quotes. If you do not want to display the message, change the setting in the kerneldrv st. Among those platforms, there is a wide variety of mechanisms for this, making consistent access to this information difficult.
Amongst other improvements the sg version 4 interface supports scsi bidirectional commands. A solaris service is any longlived software object with a welldefined state, start and stop, and relationship to other services on the system. Im running solaris 8 hba is sg xpc11fcql2 on 1 of the 4 servers show the hbas as connected, but. Unloading the sg driver may impact netbackup performance. At some stage the disk will run out of reserved locations. Solaris 10 troubleshooting hba card or lun issue run the command fcinfo hbaport to get the wwpn and wwnn, contact storage administrator to help you further with the pn and nn number, if the hba port status is not showing as online. Solaris 11 os or solaris 10 os driver installation is not necessary because the osbundled driver is used. Problems may occur depending on when the driver loads and unloads. Solaris 10 x86 for multiple drive paths installingreinstalling the sg and. This howto is not applicable to prior versions of the solaris 10 os for x86 platforms ga release 0305 or any versions of the solaris os for sparc platforms.
The command redirection examples shown here are simple, but when you learn more advanced commands, you will find many uses for piping and redirection. Hmm, right this second im struggling to see what we can do within nbu as described, the setup of the sg driver is simple. Another difference between newgrp and sg is that some shells treat newgrp specially, replacing themselves with a new instance of a shell that newgrp creates. The s option in your first command tells pkgtrans to translate the package into a datastream package on device2 the target if the device2 argument is a directory, then a filesystem type package will be placed in the directory. Installing the tivoli storage manager device driver to solaris zones the tivoli storage manager device driver supports the solaris zone feature, available with solaris version 10.
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