| System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Installation Guide |    
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| System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Installation Guide |
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| C H A P T E R 1 |
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Introduction |
This chapter describes what's involved in the reinstallation and upgrade of the SMS 1.4.1 software. Instructions are provided in subsequent chapters.
Versions of SMS 1.4.1software are available for both the Solaris 9 and the Solaris 8 operating environment. Each version is distinct, and will run only on the operating environment for which it was designed.
The SMS packages use approximately 18 Gbytes each of disk space on two disks on the system controller (SC). The following table lists the total size of the SMS software by partition.
SMS requires two disk partitions, of at least 10 Mbytes, be dedicated to each metadevice state database copy for disk mirroring.
The Solaris 8 version of SMS requires:
The 02/02 version of the Solaris 8 operating environment.
The same version of SMS software on both system controllers (SCs).
Installation of the Entire Distribution software group of the Solaris operating environment.
The same version of the Solaris operating environment, including update version and installed patches, on both SCs is strongly recommended. All patches are available from : http://sunsolve.sun.com.
The 117002-01 patch.
The 110826-09 patch for Solaris 8 on each domain (not required for SC).
The 111335-18 patch for Solaris 8 on each domain (not required for SC).
The Solaris 8 version of SMS 1.4.1 has binary dependencies on these Solaris libraries:
/usr/lib/libnvpair.so.1/usr/lib/libuuid.so.1/usr/lib/fm/libdiagcode.so.1The fixes for these libraries are available respectively through patches 108528-24, 115831-01, 115829-01, or better. These patches are available through: http://sunsolve.sun.comInstallation of SMS 1.4_s8 version requires all three of these libraries to be present on the system controllers and the domains. Otherwise, the SMS daemons will not start.
Java 1.2.2 installed in the default directory (/usr/java1.2/bin/java). Java 1.2.2 is normally installed in this directory during Solaris Entire Distribution installation.
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Caution - If you are using the Sun Fire Interconnect and Java 1.2.2 is not installed, or not installed in its default directory, SMS will fail to load. |
After installing Java 1.2.2, be sure to stop and restart SMS.
The Solaris 9 version of SMS requires:
The 4/04 version of the Solaris 9 operating environment.
The same version of SMS software on both system controllers (SCs).
Installation of the Entire Distribution software group of the Solaris operating environment.
The same version of the Solaris operating environment, including update version and installed patches, on both SCs is strongly recommended.
The 113027-03 patch, available from: http://sunsolve.sun.com.
Either Solaris 9 12/03 or patch 112233-09 for all Solaris 9 domains (not required on the SC)
Java 1.2.2 installed in the default directory (/usr/java1.2/bin/java). Java 1.2.2 is normally installed in this directory during Solaris Entire Distribution installation.
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Caution - If you are using the Sun Fire Interconnect and Java 1.2.2 is not installed, or not installed in its default directory, SMS will fail to load. |
After installing Java 1.2.2, be sure to stop and restart SMS.
Since SMS 1.3, the default sequence to stop the system (STOP-A) has been changed to the following alternate:
This was done to facilitate failover. Solaris 8 introduced this new feature which gives the system the ability to force a hanging system to halt when required without allowing random or spurious breaks to cause an unintentional stop.
These are the valid SMS software upgrade paths for the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 operating environments:
SMS 1.1 is no longer supported. Also note that there is no upgrade path from SMS 1.3 to SMS 1.4. The equivalent upgrade is SMS 1.3 to SMS 1.4.1.
The upgrade from SMS 1.4 to SMS 1.4.1 is permanent. Once you upgrade to SMS 1.4.1, you cannot return to SMS 1.4.
To upgrade from SMS software from the Solaris 8 operating environment, follow the procedures summarized in FIGURE 1-2. To upgrade SMS software from the Solaris 9 operating environment, follow the procedures summarized in FIGURE 1-3.
SMS Upgrade Instructions - Solaris 8
SMS Upgrade Instructions - Solaris 9
Previous versions of SMS documented the use of the Java
Web Start GUI and the pkgadd command to install the SMS packages on to the Sun Fire high-end system. SMS 1.3 introduced the smsinstall and smsupgrade scripts, which simplify and streamline the installation and upgrade process. As a result, Web Start and pkgadd are no longer recommended and are not documented in this manual. Do not use any method not documented in this manual to install or upgrade SMS 1.4.1 or you could misconfigure SMS and lose functionality.
SMS 1.4.1 does not support mixed configurations of CP1500 and CP2140 boards on the SC's. In other words, you cannot use a CP1500 board on one SC, and a CP2140 board on the other. Both SC's must use the same type of board.
The following chapters contain overviews of the reinstallation and upgrade process, which require you to use sections from different publications and files. You should ensure that you have the following publications, printouts and patches before you start the reinstallation or upgrade.
Solaris 9 Installation Guide
Sun Fire 15K/12K System Site Planning Guide
Refer to the Sun Fire 15K/12K System Site Planning Guide when reconfiguring your MAN network. You will need the following information from your worksheets:
Platform name
Chassis serial number
Hostname IP addresses and submask for the I1 internal network
Hostname IP addresses and submask for the I2 internal network
Community hostname IP addresses and submask for the external network
Hostname IP address for the SC logical interface
Community hostname addresses for the domains
Check the Solaris 9 (SPARC Platform Edition) Release Notes, the Solaris 9 Release Notes Supplement for Sun Hardware, the System Management Services (SMS) 1.4.1 Release Notes and sunsolve.sun.com for the latest information on issues, late-breaking news, and patch availability.
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Note - During installation, or whenever the other SC is at the Open Boot PROM prompt or not running SMS, you may see "SC clocks NOT phase locked" messages in the platform log. You can ignore them. |
For the examples in this guide:
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