How to Upgrade Transport Adapter Firmware

You might perform this procedure in the following scenarios:

• You want to use firmware bug fixes.

• You want to use new firmware features.

Use this procedure to update transport adapter firmware.

Before You Begin

This procedure provides the long forms of the Sun Cluster commands. Most commands also have short forms. Except for the forms of the command names, the commands are identical. For a list of the commands and their short forms, see Appendix A, Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Object-Oriented Commands.

To perform this procedure, become superuser or assume a role that provides solaris.cluster.read and solaris.cluster.modify role-based access control (RBAC) authorization.

1. Determine the resource groups and the device groups that are online on the node. This node is the node on which you are upgrading transport adapter firmware.

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.2, use the following commands:

     # clresourcegroup status -n nodename # cldevicegroup status -n nodename

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.1, use the following command:

     # scstat

   Note the device groups, the resource groups, and the node list for the resource groups. You will need this information to restore the cluster to its original configuration in Step 4.

2. Migrate the resource groups and device groups off the node on which you plan to upgrade the firmware.

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.2, use the following command:

     # clnode evacuate fromnode

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.1, use the following command:

     # scswitch -S -h fromnode

3. Perform the firmware upgrade.

   This process might require you to boot into noncluster mode. If it does, boot the node into cluster mode before proceeding. For the procedure about how to upgrade your transport adapter firmware, see the patch documentation.

4. If you moved device groups off their original node in Step 2, restore the device groups that you identified in Step 1 to their original node.

   Perform the following step for each device group you want to return to the original node.

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.2, use the following command:

     # cldevicegroup switch -n nodename devicegroup1[ devicegroup2 …]

     -n nodename

     The node to which you are restoring device groups.

     devicegroup1[ devicegroup2 …]

     The device group or groups that you are restoring to the node.

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.1, use the following command:

     # scswitch -z -D devicegroup -h nodename

   In these commands, devicegroup is one or more device groups that are returned to the node.

5. If you moved resource groups off their original node in Step 2 restore the resource groups that you identified in Step 1 to their original node.

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.2, use the following command:

     Perform the following step for each resource group you want to return to the original node.

     # clresourcegroup switch -n nodename resourcegroup1[ resourcegroup2 …]

     nodename

     For failover resource groups, the node to which the groups are returned. For scalable resource groups, the node list to which the groups are returned.

     resourcegroup1[ resourcegroup2 …]

     The resource group or groups that you are returning to the node or nodes.

     resourcegroup

     The resource group that is returned to the node or nodes.

   • If you are using Sun Cluster 3.1, use the following command:

     # scswitch -z -g resourcegroup -h nodename