Sun StorageTek 5800 System Administration Guide

This chapter describes how to configure system notifications and register the 5800 system hardware online. It contains the following sections:

• Configuring System Notifications
• Registering Hardware With Sun
• Sending System Information to Sun

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Configuring System Notifications

If you configure email notifications, the 5800 system sends email alerts for conditions such as the following:

• Enabling or disabling of a disk or node
• System reboot
• System shutdown
• Administrator password change
• Switch failover
• Node failure
• Disk added or removed
• System has reached capacity (any disk has reached 80% raw utilization) and cannot accept new objects. (See Obtaining Disk Status for information about using the df -p command to monitor raw utilization on the disks.)
• Data or administrative IP address change
• System “wiped” of all data
• System upgrade
• Schema changes

To configure the 5800 system to send email notifications, you must specify a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server and the email address of the recipient.

You can also specify an external logging host to which the 5800 system sends detailed log messages for debugging purposes.

You configure the email notifications and the external logging host on a per-hive basis.

1. Specify the SMTP server and port number with the command
hivecfg --smtp_server ip_address --smtp_port ip_address.

For example:

ST5800 $ hivecfg --smtp_server 10.7.224.15 --smtp_port 25

2. To add or delete an email address (either To: or cc:) from the specified list type use the commands alertcfg add to addresses or alertcfg del cc addresses.

For example:

ST5800 $ alertcfg add to alerts@samplecompany.com
ST5800 $ alertcfg del cc admin@samplecompany.com

1. From the navigation panel, choose Configuration > Notification.

2. Click Set Up Email.

3. (Optional) If DNS is enabled and you want to enter host names instead of IP addresses, select Host Name.

4. Type the IP address or host name of the SMTP server that you want the 5800 system to use.

5. Type the port number of the SMTP server.

6. Perform one of the following:

• To add an email recipient:

i. Click the Add button

A new row is displayed in the table.

ii. In the Type field, choose the type of recipient that you want: To or Cc.

iii. In the Address field, type the full email address of the recipient.

• To remove an email recipient:

i. Click the Remove button

ii. At the prompt, confirm the removal.

7. Click Apply.

  To set an external log host for the 5800 system, use the command hivecfg --external_logger ip_address.

For example:

ST5800 $ hivecfg --external_logger 10.7.224.15

1. From the navigation panel, choose Configuration > Notification.

2. Click Set Logging Host.

3. (Optional) If DNS is enabled and you want to enter host names instead of IP addresses, select Host Name.

4. Type the IP address or host name of the host to which the email notifications log will be sent.

5. Click Apply.

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Registering Hardware With Sun

When Sun service personnel install, upgrade, or expand the 5800 system hardware, they also update the service tags on the system that describe the hardware. You can register these service tags with Sun to allow you to identify your equipment and expedite service calls.

1. Access the Sun Connection web site at this location:

https://sunconnection.sun.com/inventory

A screen similar to the example shown in FIGURE 5-1 is displayed.

FIGURE 5-1 Sun Connection Screen

2. Click Discover and Register under Step 2.

A screen similar to the example shown in FIGURE 5-2 is displayed.

FIGURE 5-2 Locate Product Data Screen

3. Follow step a or step b, depending on how you want to proceed:

a. To automatically locate Sun products and choose which ones to register, select Locate Products on Local Subnet.

Follow the instructions on the screens to select which products you want to register and enter the required information. FIGURE 5-4 through FIGURE 5-8 show an example of registering the 5800 system. Notice that you can enter a description of the 5800 system, as shown in FIGURE 5-7.

b. To specify the 5800 system you want to register, select Locate Products on Other Subnets, Specific Systems or Load Previously Saved Data.

If you select this option, follow the instructions on the screens and enter the Data IP address or host name on the screen that follows, as shown in FIGURE 5-3. FIGURE 5-4 through FIGURE 5-8 show an example of registering the 5800 system. Notice that you can enter a description of the 5800 system, as shown in FIGURE 5-7.

FIGURE 5-3 Specifying Data IP Host Name for Registration

FIGURE 5-4 Product Data Screen

FIGURE 5-5 Account Information Screen

FIGURE 5-6 Edit Product Data Screen

FIGURE 5-7 Edit Product Data Screen With Description Entered

FIGURE 5-8 Confirmation Screen

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Sending System Information to Sun

For troubleshooting purposes, Sun service might request that you use the CLI command logdump to collect information from the system and send it back to Sun via Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer (HTTPS).

logdump Command

You run the logdump command either in interactive mode (the system prompts for required information) or in noninteractive mode (you have to enter each parameter separately). To run logdump interactively, enter the command with the -z or --set options as in the following example:

logdump -z

For complete syntax of the logdump command and all its options, seelogdump.

Sun StorageTek 5800 System Administration Guide

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